The Fake Hitler Diaries That Fooled the Experts
On April 25, 1983, hundreds of reporters crowded into a press conference in Hamburg, West Germany. TV cameras pointed at a table piled with small black notebooks. Some had a red wax seal stamped with an eagle and a swastika. Stern, one of Germany’s biggest news magazines, was about to make an astonishing announcement. Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator who started the Second World War and ordered the murder of six million Jews, had kept a secret diary. And Stern had all 60 volumes.









