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In September 1919, the year after the end of World War I, a German captain named Karl Mayr, who ran a propaganda unit in charge
In September 1919, the year after the end of World War I, a German captain named Karl Mayr, who ran a propaganda unit in charge
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In September 1919, the year after the end of World War I, a German captain named Karl Mayr, who ran a propaganda unit in charge of educating veterans who believed in nationalism and always blamed others, received an inquiry from a soldier named Adolf Gemlich about the army’s position on "the Jewish question." Mayr asked a young subordinate named Adolf Hitler to answer. The resulting Gemlich letter, as it is known to historians, is believed to be the first record of Hitler’s anti-Semitic beliefs and has been an important document in Holocaust studies for decades.
This week, Rabbi Marvin Hier, the founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, announced that the center has obtained the original, signed letter, which had never been publicly displayed. At the letter’s public unveiling in New York City, Hier explained its winding journey from Hitler’s own hand to its eventual home at the center’s Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.
In April 1945, an American soldier named William Ziegler found the letter scattered among other documents in Nuremberg, Germany. Ziegler took the letter home and sold it to a private collector. In 1988, the Wiesenthal Center had the opportunity to buy the letter but was skeptical about whether Hitler could have afforded a typewriter. "He was a nobody; he couldn’t afford anything," Hier said at the letter’s unveiling. "A typewriter is like today having somebody who can’t afford his meals and he’s waving the latest Apple computer in front of you."
By the time the center could verify that Hitler had used a German army typewriter, the letter had been sold to another private collector. In 1990, handwriting expert Charles Hamilton Jr., who gained fame for exposing fake Hitler diaries in 1983, authenticated Hitler’s signature on the Gemlich letter.
When the Wiesenthal Center again had an opportunity to purchase the letter this year, it paid $150,000 to make the letter part of its collection. "We do not want to make a market for memorabilia, but this document does not belong in private hands," Hier said. "It has too much to say to history. It belongs in public hands, and it has found its home at the Museum of Tolerance."
Few have questioned the importance of the Gemlich letter in understanding Hitler and the Holocaust. It not only provides a look into his beliefs, but reveals early ideas of how he would attempt to systematically make the Jews become extinct. Yet the purchase of such a document, especially at such a high price, has raised questions among historians. "This is not the Magna Carta," says Michael Marrus, the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto. "I doubt very strongly that, given everything else we know, the Gemlich letter will change historians’ views about Hitler, or that it will be seen as pushing back Hitler’s race murder ambitions to a very early date." Another concern with the purchase is that such transactions, not by private collectors but by a human-rights organization like the Wiesenthal Center, could have unintended consequences. "What you don’t want to happen is for mysteriousness to grow around these documents," Marrus says.
[A] is a letter from a soldier named Adolf Gemlich.
[B] suggested that the Wiesenthal Center had failed to buy the letter due to its doubt about the truth of the letter.
[C] proved the Hitler’s signature on the Gemlich letter to be true in 1990.
[D] is considered to be the first record of Hitler’s anti-Semitic beliefs by historians.
[E] says that people don’t want such documents as the Gemlich letter to get more and more mysterious.
[F] found the letter in Germany then took it to America and sold it to a private collector.
[G] said the reason why they purchased the letter was that they wanted to make a market for memorabilia.
Charles Hamilton Jr.
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答案
C
解析
Charles Hamilton Jr.出现在第四段。该段提到在1990年,笔迹研究专家Charles Hamilton Jr.证实了希特勒在《致Gemlich的信》上署名的真实性。C项复现了原文的关键词Hitler’s signature on the Gemlich letter,且prove…to be true和原文中的authenticated同义,故C为正确答案。
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