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6th May 1983: The Hitler Diaries proven to be forgeries
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2018-05-05 21:05:16
Description: West Germany’s Federal Archives revealed that forensic tests proved the Hitler Diaries were forgeries. In the final days of the Second World War, an aeroplane carrying some of Hitler’s closest staff members crashed near the German border with Czechoslovakia. Hitler’s personal valet, Sergeant Wilhelm Arndt, was killed and the personal effects he was carrying on behalf of the Fuhrer were lost. On hearing of the crash, Hitler allegedly exclaimed that, ‘In that plane were all my private archives that I had intended as a testament to posterity. It is a catastrophe!’ Journalist Robert Harris later described this possibility of lost ...
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