Scandale theiere hitler biography
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How forged Hitler diaries became one of the greatest journalistic scandals of the 20th century
It sounds like the stuff of fiction: a man forges a dictator's diaries and passes them off as a scoop to a major magazine that, after an ensuing media frenzy, has to admit to falling for a deeply disturbing hoax.
In fact, the story is true — and as compelling as it is concerning.
The dictator was Hitler, and the so-called scoop of his diaries "revealed" that perhaps Hitler didn't actually know about the Holocaust and wasn't such a bad guy, after all.
It was all part of an infamous attempt to re-write the history of the Third Reich, that ended in a major scandal.
'One of the greatest journalistic frauds'
In 1983, the respected German current affairs magazine, Stern, published what it claimed were the lost diaries of Adolf Hitler.
It was "one of the greatest journalistic frauds of the 20th century", according to newspaper El País.
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