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Hitler Diaries
The Hitler Diaries ((ドイツ語:Hitler-Tagebücher)) were a series of sixty volumes of journals purportedly by Adolf Hitler, but forged by Konrad Kujau in 1981–83. The diaries were purchased in 1983 for 9.3 million Deutsche Marks ($3.7 million), by the West German news magazine ''Stern'', who sold serialisation rights to several news organisations, notably ''The Sunday Times''. At the press conference to announce the forthcoming publication, several historians—including two who had previously authenticated the diaries—raised questions over their validity. Rigorous forensic analysis had not been undertaken prior to the press conference, and subsequent examination quickly confirmed the diaries were fakes.
Kujau, born and raised in East Germany, had a history of petty crime and deception. In the mid-1970s he began selling Nazi memorabilia which he was smuggling from the east, but soon found he could raise the prices by forging additional authentication details which linked ordinary souvenirs to the Nazi leaders. He began forging paintings by Hitler and an increasing number of notes, poems and letters, until he produced his first diary in the mid- to late 1970s. The West German journalist with ''Stern'' who "discovered" the diaries and was involved in their purchase was Gerd Heidemann, who had an obsession with the Nazis. When ''Stern'' started buying the diaries, Heidemann stole a significant proportion of the money provided.
In early 1983 ''Stern'' came to agreements with several global news organisations to serialise the diaries. One of the publications involved was ''The Sunday Times'', who asked their independent director, the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, to authenticate the diaries; he did so, pronouncing them genuine. Upon reflection he changed his mind, which he announced at the ''Stern'' press conference to launch the diaries. Forensic examination quickly showed that the diaries were amateurish forgeries. Kujau and Heidemann both spent time in prison for their parts in the fraud, and several newspaper editors lost their jobs. The scandal has been adapted for the screen twice; once as ''Selling Hitler'' (1991) for the British ITV channel, and the following year as ''Schtonk!'' for German cinema.
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