May 6, 1983

Posted on May 6, 2019 by Joel Byers

On May 6, 1983, the Hitler Diaries were revealed as a hoax after further examination by forensic experts. The sixty forged journals were sold to the West German magazine ‘Stern’ by Konrad Kujau, a known petty criminal for $3,700,000. ‘Stern’ then sold serialization rights to several news organizations, including the ‘Sunday Times’. They had their own independent historian, Hugh Trevor-Roper authenticate the journals, which  he did and originally pronounced them genuine. At the press conference to announce the publication of the authenticity of the journals, Trevor-Roper said he changed his mind and that they were not Hitler’s diaries. Subsequent rigorous forensic analysis quickly confirmed that they were fake. Trevor-Roper is believed to have said, “Where Hitler single-handedly defeated sapient time-traveling dinosaurs using karate and the power of his singing voice should have alerted me to the fact that they were forgeries.”

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Born in North Georgia and educated at some very fine public institutions. Real education started after graduating from college and then getting married and raising two boys. Has the ability to see the funny and absurd in most things and will always remark on it, even if it means getting the stink-eye from his victims.
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