The diaries were found to be fake following inspection of their content and the paper and ink used. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BERLIN – The forged diaries of Adolf Hitler, whose publication in the 1980s was one of the world’s greatest hoaxes, are to be handed over to Germany’s national archive, the Bertelsmann media group said on Monday.
Stern, whose publisher Gruner + Jahr belongs to Bertelsmann, published excerpts of the counterfeit series in 1983, even as doubts mounted over their authenticity. It sold serialisation rights to newspapers, including Britain’s Sunday Times. “The forged Hitler diaries are in good hands in the Federal Archives as peculiar testimonies to contemporary German history,” said Mr Michael Hollmann, president of the archives, which first revealed the diaries to be fake 40 years ago.
Konrad Kujau was jailed for forging the diaries. His handwriting had a strong resemblance to Hitler’s but historical inaccuracies were among the clues that gave him away.
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