The fake "Hitler Diaries"

The file consists of copies of articles from the Sunday Times reporting on the "scoop" of acquiring the supposed diaries of Adolf Hitler. The secret diaries were transferred in an airplane out of encircled Berlin in April 1945 for safeguarding. The plane crashed and its contents were lost. However in the late seventies a reporter of the magazine Stern "uncovered" the diaries and acquired more than sixty books that were supposedly written between 1932 and 1945. The article recounts the acquisition and some excerpts from the diary, mainly about Hitler's views on other Nazis and foreign politicians. In the second article published a week later, the suspicion of forgery is addressed, but the evidence is presented as "fact or fake". Shortly after, the diaries were conclusively dismissed as a very bad example of cheap forgery by forensic experts.