New: The Hitler Diaries Scandal (from The History Podcast)
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New: The Hitler Diaries Scandal (from The History Podcast)

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 13, 202610 min
  • Documentary
  • History

When Germany's biggest magazine Stern announced in 1983 that they'd found the long-lost diaries of Adolf Hitler, the world was poised to rewrite history. Unfortunately, they were fake. In this new series of The History Podcast, The Hitler Diaries Scandal, Andrew Hunter Murray goes back to the 1980s to uncover last century’s biggest ever publishing scandal, a forgery which rocked the world and destroyed reputations. It’s a tale of greed, obsession and mass delusion. It includes Hermann Göring’s yacht, Nazi-themed honeymoons, Idi Amin’s underpants, and more details almost too unbelievable for words. This is a teaser of...

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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. Hi, this is Andrew Hunter Murray here. This is not an episode of You're Dead to Me. I'm here to tell you about my latest podcast. It's called The Hitler Diaries Scandal, and you can find it in the History Podcast feed.

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It's a story of a forger who conned the biggest publishing houses in Europe from his home in the suburbs of Stuttgart. It's about greed, vanity and mass delusion. Would we fall for it today?

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You can listen in full now on BBC Sounds. And here's a taster. It's 6am on the 21st of April 1945. Villagers in the tiny hamlet of Bernersdorf, 150 miles south of Berlin on the Czech border,

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