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	== See also ==		== See also ==
	*[[Alleged statements by Hitler on the ~~Holocaust~~]]		*[[Alleged statements by Hitler on the Holohoax]]
	== External links ==		== External links ==
	*[https://codoh.com/library/document/2180/en/ Selling Hitler, A Review]		*[https://codoh.com/library/document/2180/en/ Selling Hitler, A Review]

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	[[File:Stern Hitler-Tagebücher.~~jpg~~\|thumb\|380px\|The first three journals are checked immediately. Renowned historians, experts from the Federal Archives and the State Criminal Police Office of Rhineland-Palatinate actually confirm the authenticity. No one notices that some of the comparative handwriting samples presented to the reviewers were also penned by Kujau. Both the editors and the examiners close their eyes to inconsistencies. It is known and documented that [[Hitler]] was rather lazy to write. So it doesn't suit the man, characterized as impatient and impulsive, to fill up so many notebooks – and to do it with suspiciously neat handwriting without frantically crossed out spelling mistakes. It just gets swept under the table. Even the most obvious mistake is rewritten: the two letters "FH" (not "AH") are written on the covers of the notebooks in old-fashioned typography. Hitler's initials? Well, the greed of those involved unleashes a certain amount of imagination. Of course, "FH" must stand for "Führer Hitler".]]		[[File:Stern Hitler-Tagebücher.png\|thumb\|380px\|The first three journals are checked immediately. Renowned historians, experts from the Federal Archives and the State Criminal Police Office of Rhineland-Palatinate actually confirm the authenticity. No one notices that some of the comparative handwriting samples presented to the reviewers were also penned by Kujau. Both the editors and the examiners close their eyes to inconsistencies. It is known and documented that [[Hitler]] was rather lazy to write. So it doesn't suit the man, characterized as impatient and impulsive, to fill up so many notebooks – and to do it with suspiciously neat handwriting without frantically crossed out spelling mistakes. It just gets swept under the table. Even the most obvious mistake is rewritten: the two letters "FH" (not "AH") are written on the covers of the notebooks in old-fashioned typography. Hitler's initials? Well, the greed of those involved unleashes a certain amount of imagination. Of course, "FH" must stand for "Führer Hitler".]]
	The '''Hitler Diaries''' ({{lang-de\|Hitler-Tagebücher}}) were a series of sixty volumes of journals purportedly written by [[Adolf Hitler]], but forged by Konrad Kujau between 1981 and 1983. The diaries were purchased in 1983 for 9.3 million Deutsche Marks (£2.33 million or $3.7 million) by the West German news magazine ''Stern'', which sold serialisation rights to several news organisations.		The '''Hitler Diaries''' ({{lang-de\|Hitler-Tagebücher}}) were a series of sixty volumes of journals purportedly written by [[Adolf Hitler]], but forged by Konrad Kujau between 1981 and 1983. The diaries were purchased in 1983 for 9.3 million Deutsche Marks (£2.33 million or $3.7 million) by the West German news magazine ''Stern'', which sold serialisation rights to several news organisations.

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[[File:Stern Hitler-Tagebücher.jpg|thumb|380px|The first three journals are checked immediately. Renowned historians, experts from the Federal Archives and the State Criminal Police Office of Rhineland-Palatinate actually confirm the authenticity. No one notices that some of the comparative handwriting samples presented to the reviewers were also penned by Kujau. Both the editors and the examiners close their eyes to inconsistencies. It is known and documented that [[Hitler]] was rather lazy to write. So it doesn't suit the man, characterized as impatient and impulsive, to fill up so many notebooks – and to do it with suspiciously neat handwriting without frantically crossed out spelling mistakes. It just gets swept under the table. Even the most obvious mistake is rewritten: the two letters "FH" (not "AH") are written on the covers of the notebooks in old-fashioned typography. Hitler's initials? Well, the greed of those involved unleashes a certain amount of imagination. Of course, "FH" must stand for "Führer Hitler".]]
The '''Hitler Diaries''' ({{lang-de|Hitler-Tagebücher}}) were a series of sixty volumes of journals purportedly written by [[Adolf Hitler]], but forged by Konrad Kujau between 1981 and 1983. The diaries were purchased in 1983 for 9.3 million Deutsche Marks (£2.33 million or $3.7 million) by the West German news magazine ''Stern'', which sold serialisation rights to several news organisations.

The [[West German]] journalist with ''Stern'' who "discovered" the diaries and was involved in their purchase was Gerd Heidemann. When Stern started buying the diaries, Heidemann stole a significant proportion of the money. When the forgery was discovered, Kujau and Heidemann spent time in prison for their parts in the fraud, and several newspaper editors lost their jobs.

==History==
In April 1983, the [[Germany|German]] news magazine ''[[Stern (magazine)|Stern]]'' published extracts from what purported to be the diaries of [[Adolf Hitler]], known as the "Hitler Diaries", which were subsequently exposed as forgeries. The magazine had paid 10 million German marks (DM) for the sixty small books as well as two "special issues" about [[Rudolf Hess]]'s flight to the [[United Kingdom]], covering the period from 1932 to [[1945]].

Journalist Gerd Heidemann (who was in a long-term relationship with [https://de.metapedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6ring,_Edda Edda Göring], the daughter of [[Hermann Göring]]) claimed to have discovered them, and he submitted them to be reviewed by a number of experts in [[World War II]] history, notably the historians [[Hugh Trevor-Roper]], [[Eberhard Jäckel]] and [[Gerhard Weinberg]]. At a press conference on 25 April 1983, the diaries were declared by these experts to be authentic. Even though they had not yet been properly examined by scientists, Trevor-Roper endorsed the diaries thus:

:''"I am now satisfied that the documents are authentic; that the history of their wanderings since 1945 is true; and that the standard accounts of Hitler's writing habits, of his personality and, even, perhaps, of some public events, may in consequence have to be revised."''

Trevor-Roper was at that time a director of Times Newspapers, and although he denied acting dishonestly, there was a clear conflict of interests, because ''[[The Sunday Times (UK)|The Sunday Times]]'' had already paid a substantial sum for the rights to serialise the diaries in the UK.

Heidemann claimed to have received the diaries from [[East Germany]], smuggled out by a "[[Konrad Kujau|Dr. Fischer]]." The diaries were claimed to be part of a consignment of documents recovered from an aircraft crash in Börnersdorf near [[Dresden]] in April [[1945]].

However within two weeks the Hitler Diaries were revealed as being "grotesquely superficial fakes" made on modern paper using modern ink and full of historical inaccuracies. Some point out that the most obvious fakery was the monogram on the title page reading 'FH' instead of 'AH' (for Adolf Hitler) - even though in the old German typeface those letters looked strikingly similar. However, 'FH' could conceivably stand for "Führer Hauptquartier" ("''Führer'' Headquarters"). Content had been largely copied from a book of Hitler's speeches with additional 'personal' comments.

As a reaction, ''Stern'' editors Peter Koch and Felix Schmidt resigned from the magazine. The episode was much ridiculed in the UK media (particularly by the ''Sunday Times''' rival newspapers), and historian Hugh Trevor-Roper's reputation was seriously damaged.

The diaries were actually written by Konrad Kujau, a notorious [[Stuttgart]] forger of Hitler's works. Both he and Heidemann went to trial in [[1985]] and were each sentenced to 42 months in prison.

In 1991, a television mini-series based on the [[Robert Harris (novelist)|Robert Harris]] book of the affair called ''Selling Hitler'' was produced for the British television channel [[ITV]]. A 1992 [[film]] by German director [[Helmut Dietl]] called ''Schtonk!'', featuring fictional characterizations, mirrored many of the events.

== See also ==
*[[Alleged statements by Hitler on the Holocaust]]
== External links ==
*[https://codoh.com/library/document/2180/en/ Selling Hitler, A Review]

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