Memoiric

This episode is another in a series of mystifying maneuvers made at the time. Mystifying, because all references to it found in the memoiric literature are contradictory; likewise, because rumors of a Reichswehr- Red generals conspiracy were floating about simultaneously, possibly as a part of a plot to frame the Red generals with Nazi forgeries, two developments which have their own contradictory literature.

The Chelsea's basement is also the setting for the climactic scene in Dee Dee Ramone's 2001 novel Chelsea Horror Hotel, a mix of factually-based memoiric anecdotes, paranoid hallucinations and revenge fantasies.

If the genre of autobiographic or memoiric writing is beset by a certain obsession with veracity, subjects of Refugee and Forced Migration experience know too well a further heightened and acute high-stakes game of authentication.