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06/05/1983 The Hitler Diaries are revealed as a hoax

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6th May 1983: The Hitler Diaries proven to be forgeries

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1983: The Diary of Hitler

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The Hitler Diaries

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Robert Harris on Selling Hitler - the Guardian

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. Rigorous forensic analysis confirmed that the diaries were fakes. Kujau and Heidemann spent time in prison for their parts in the fraud, and several newspaper editors lost their jobs.