Selling Hitler (1991)
In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler. Over the next two years, Heidemann and the senior management figures at Stern secretly pay 10 million German marks to a mysterious 'Dr Fischer' for the sixty volumes of 'Hitler's diaries'. However, to the dismay of all, it is discovered after the publication of first extract that the diaries are crude forgeries, faked by Stuttgart criminal Konrad Kujau.
Release Date: 1991-06-11
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7.0/10
- Country: GB
- Language: English
- Runtime: 256
Konrad 'Conny' Fischer
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Fritz Stiefel
Rupert Murdoch
Gerd Heidemann
Manfred Fischer
Gina Heidemann
David Irving
Henri Nannen
Thomas Walde
Edith Lieblang
Gerd Schulte-Hillen
Edda Goering
Jan Hensmann
Magnus Linklater
Congo Randy
Marquis of Bath
Hans Bauer
Wilhelm Mohnke
Lady Alexandra Dacre
Peter Kuehsel
Gerhard Weinberg
Barbara Dickmann
Brian MacArthur
Frank Giles
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Selling Hitler
