The Hitler Diaries were a series of 60 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

Konrad Kujau
Buying and selling of nazi memorabilia
forging additional authentication details
notes and documents supposedly handwritten by Bormann, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich
Himmler, Hermann Göring and Joseph Goebbels. He forged passable imitations of his subjects'
genuine handwriting

producing paintings which he claimed were by Hitler

Gerd Heidemann staff at Stern Magazine

Stern (German for "Star"), a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg, was formed by
the journalist and businessman Henri Nannen in 1948 to offer scandal, gossip and human interest
stories.

Stern, The Sunday Time, Newsweek

Trevor-Roper of Times Magazine

Gils at the Sunday Time

 Kenneth W. Rendell, a handwriting expert in the studios of CBS, and showed him one of the
volumes. Rendell's first impression was that the diaries were forged. He later reported that
"everything looked wrong", including new-looking ink, poor quality paper and signatures that were
"terrible renditions" of Hitler's