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
A co-worker of Berlin auction house 'Jeschke, Greve and Hauff' disposes a copy of the last circulating copy of the fake Hitler diaries by late faker Konrad Kujau in Berlin 23 April 2004.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, Bertelsmann media group said on Monday.
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