Selling Hitler

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

Wilhelm Arndt: Adolf Hitler’s personal servant, entrusted with escorting the Führer’s ‘testament to posterity’ out of Berlin in April 1945

The Marquess of Bath: Owner of the world’s largest collection of Hitler’s paintings

Hans Baur: Hitler’s personal pilot

Randolph Braumann: ‘Congo Randy’, a close friend of Gerd Heidemann

William Broyles: Editor-in-chief of Newsweek

Gerda Christian: One of Hitler’s secretaries

Barbara Dickmann: Television journalist hired by Stern to help launch the Hitler diaries

Charles Douglas-Home: Editor of The Times

Manfred Fischer: Managing director of Gruner and Jahr, owners of Stern

Dr Max Frei-Sulzer: Swiss ‘handwriting expert’

Francois Genoud: Swiss lawyer representing the families of Hitler, Goebbels and Bormann

Frank Giles: Editor of the Sunday Times

Rolf Gillhausen: Stern editor

Otto Guensche: SS adjutant who burned Hitler’s body

Major Friedrich Gundlfinger: Luftwaffe pilot who flew Wilhelm Arndt out of Berlin in April 1945

Gerd Heidemann: Stern journalist responsible for obtaining the Hitler diaries

Gina Heidemann: Wife of Gerd Heidemann

Dr Josef Henke: Senior official of the West German Federal Archives

Dr Jan Hensmann: Deputy managing director of Gruner and Jahr

Peter Hess: Publishing director of Gruner and Jahr

Wolf Hess: Son of Rudolf Hess

Ordway Hilton: American ‘handwriting expert’

David Irving: British historian

Eberhard Jaeckel: Professor of History, University of Stuttgart

Medard Klapper: Arms dealer and confidence trickster who alleged he was in touch with Martin Bormann

Peter Koch: Stern editor

Peter Kuehsel: Financial director of Gruner and Jahr

Konrad Kujau: Forger of the Hitler diaries

Edith Lieblang: Konrad Kujau’s common law wife

Heinz Linge: Hitler’s valet

Brian MacArthur: Deputy editor, the Sunday Times

Werner Maser: West German historian

Rochus Misch: Führerbunker switchboard operator

Maria Modritsch: Konrad Kujau’s girlfriend

Reinhard Mohn: Chief executive, Bertelsmann AG

SS General Wilhelm Mohnke: Commander of the Führerbunker

Rupert Murdoch: Chairman, News International; owner, The Times, Sunday Times and New York Post

Henri Nannen: Founder and publisher of Stern

Lynn Nesbit: Senior Vice-President, International Creative Management

James O’Donnell: Author, The Berlin Bunker

Dr Klaus Oldenhage: Official of the West German Federal Archives

Maynard Parker: Editor of Newsweek

Leo Pesch: Journalist employed in Stern’s history department

Billy F. Price: Collector of Hitler paintings from Houston, Texas; author, Adolf Hitler: The Unknown Artist

August Priesack: Self-styled ‘professor’ and expert on Hitler’s art, consulted by Fritz Stiefel and Billy Price

Kenneth Rendell: American ‘handwriting expert’

Arnold Rentz: West German forensic chemist

Felix Schmidt: Stern editor

Christa Schroeder: One of Hitler’s secretaries

Gerd Schulte-Hillen: Manfred Fischer’s successor as managing director of Gruner and Jahr

Richard Schulze-Kossens: One of Hitler’s SS adjutants

Wilfried Sorge: Member of the management of Gruner and Jahr, responsible for selling the Hitler diaries to foreign news organizations

Franz Spoegler: Former SS officer, who offered Heidemann forged correspondence between Churchill and Mussolini

Fritz Stiefel: Stuttgart businessman, collector of Nazi memorabilia

Jakob Tiefenthaeler: Collector of Nazi memorabilia who acted as agent for Gerd Heidemann when he tried to sell Goering’s yacht

Hugh Trevor-Roper (Lord Dacre of Glanton): Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge; Independent National Director, Times Newspapers

Thomas Walde: Head of Stern’s history department

Gerhard Weinberg: Professor of Modern History, University of North Carolina

Peter Wickman: Stern correspondent based in London

Louis Wolfe: President, Bantam Books

SS General Karl Wolff: Heinrich Himmler’s Chief of Staff; Military Governor of northern Italy, 1943–45