Mysteries of the Lost (and Found) Nazi Diaries
What did Alfred Rosenberg say about his fellow Nazis? And will the man who hid the diaries be prosecuted?
Mayer characterizes Rosenberg as "an unhappy man" disliked by top Nazi leaders including Hitler—and Rosenberg in turn disliked them. He suggests that Rosenberg was not German but was perhaps Estonian. Mayer agrees with the theory that Rosenberg tried to prove his German identity by advocating extreme racism in theory and practice.
The diaries were the focus of a crowded press conference on June 13 in Wilmington, Delaware. John Morton, who heads the Wilmington-based Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), announced HSI's lead role in the seizure of the documents. (Related: "Final Effort to Find Nazi War Criminals.")
Morton said that the volumes were removed from the Nuremberg international war crimes tribunal by an American member of the prosecutorial team, Robert Kempner, who
