“Zeman insists that the article “Hitler is a Gentleman” was written by Peroutka and that it exists. Ovčáček will keep on searching.” That’s the newspaper headline from last week following the discovery of an article published by the paper Rudé právo in 1937, titled “Hitler-gentleman,” written by someone else. This is the latest bit of news in the more than one year long scandal involving the Czech president Miloš Zeman, who in a speech claimed that Czechoslovakia’s most famous journalist Ferdinand Peroutka wrote an article in the country’s best-known pre-war magazine Přítomnost titled “Hitler is a gentleman.” Peroutka’s living niece Theresa Kaslova sued the president for an apology; Peroutka was anything but an admirer of Hitler and was in fact