On This Day: April 22, 1983 – Stern Magazine Claimed the Hitler Diaries Were Discovered

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Pete

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Pete has published a news story:

On This Day: April 22, 1983 – Stern Magazine Claimed the Hitler Diaries Were Discovered.

On this day April 22, 1983, the German magazine Stern made headlines worldwide by claiming it had obtained Adolf Hitler’s personal diaries. The magazine reported that the volumes were discovered in wreckage from a plane crash in East Germany and had been secretly smuggled to the West.

The announcement caused a media frenzy, with major outlets and historians initially taking interest in the supposed insight these writings offered into Hitler’s private thoughts. The diaries were said to...
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