The Hitler Diaries 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 by the West German news magazine Stern. Rigorous forensic analysis, which had not been performed previously, quickly confirmed that the diiaries were fakes. The story of the scandal was the basis for the films Selling Hitler for the British channel ITV and the German cinema release Schtonk!
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The Hitler Diaries 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 by the West German news magazine Stern, which sold serialisation rights to several news organisations. 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. Rigorous forensic analysis, which had not been performed previously, quickly confirmed that the diiaries were fakes. The story of the scandal was the basis for the films Selling Hitler for the British channel ITV and the German cinema release Schtonk! The last of the crash’s two survivors died in April 1980, and Bormann had died after leaving the Berlin bunker following Hitler’s suicide on 30 April 1945. In the decades following the war, the possibility of a hidden cache of private papers belonging to Hitler became, according to the journalist Robert Harris, a “tantalizing state of affairs was to provide the perfect scenario for forgery”. The story was also the subject of the film Selling Hitler, starring Tom Hanks and Emma Watson, which was released in Germany in 2013. The film was directed by German director Hans-Joachim Watzke, who also directed the German version of The Godfather, which came out the same year.
The German version was released the following year, in the UK, and in the U.S. in 2014. The British version of Selling Hitler was released on DVD in September 2014. It is available for £9.99, with the option of a free download from Amazon.com, with a 30-day no-expense-paid trial. The UK version of the movie is available on Amazon for £7.99. The U.K. version is available from £8.99 and includes the option to pay £5.99 with a free Kindle download. The American version is £9, with an option to buy the book for £10.99; the German release is £10, plus an additional £3.99 for a Kindle download of the book. The book is available in paperback, hardback, and e-book, and is expected to be released in September 2015. For more information on the book, visit Amazon.co.uk/Hitler-Diaries or the German edition of this article, which is published by the German publisher, Bremen Post, on sale from September 15, 2015, for £8, £7, £6, £5, £3, and £4, respectively. For the UK version, click here. The English version is published on the same day, on September 14, and includes an extract from the book entitled Hitler’s Diary, by the same publisher, the German magazine, The New York Times, as well as the German and English versions of the German versions.
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