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May 6, 1983

The West German State Archives announces that Hitler’s diaries published by Stern and the Sunday Times (bought by Stern) are not only a fake, but a crude forgery; through Stern’s famous reporter, Gerd Heidemann, 4 million USD have gone up in smoke; the report: the paper is low-quality and chemical-based, the bleach is from 1955, the binding also contains bleach, the red threads on the cover are polyester and viscose, the labels signed by Hess and Bormann are all written with the same typewriter and in rapid succession, the ink is very recent: one or two years old.