In 1978, a handsome leather volume monogrammed with Adolf Hitler’s initials entered the collectors’ market. It would be the first of many. The books were diaries chronicling the Fuhrer’s life, often ...

Last week there was a memorial service for Russell Watson, a much-admired writer and editor at Newsweek magazine, where he and I both worked for sizable chunks of our lives. Like most newsmagazine ...

Hugh Trevor-Roper sat in a small room at a Zurich bank. Fifty-eight leather-bound books were stacked on a table in front of him. The eminent historian began flipping through the volumes. "The pages ...

Gerd Heidemann at the press conference in which the so-called diaries were unveiled - Patrick Piel/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Gerd Heidemann, who has died aged 93, astounded the world in 1983 when ...

In his prime, German journalist Gerd Heidemann was a swashbuckling correspondent for Stern, a widely read Hamburg weekly similar to Life magazine. His reportorial sleuthing had earned him the moniker ...

LONDON -- Historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, who investigated "The Last Days of Hitler" in his most famous book but sullied his own reputation by incorrectly authenticating diaries said to have been the ...

On this day, May 6, in 1983, the Hitler Diaries that had been sold to a newsmagazine for $6 million were revealed as a giant hoax. The volume of 60 books was supposedly recovered from a plane crash in ...

The man who helped sell the fake Hitler diaries that caused a scandal in the mid-1980s was an East German spy, the weekly Der Spiegel reported this week. Gerd Heidemann, the reporter who bought the ...

Fifty years ago, The Washington Post broke the Watergate Scandal. Now the same paper that gave journalism a finest hour has contributed one of its foulest, falsely reporting that President Trump ...

BERLIN - A volume of the forged diaries of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler that fooled the world in 1983 fetched about $7,700 in a Berlin auction Friday. Forger, painter and military antiques dealer Konrad ...

At The Sunday Times of London, he learned at the last minute that the diaries were fake, but the paper’s owner, Rupert Murdoch, ordered them published. By Katharine Q. Seelye As journalistic fiascos ...

LONDON — Historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, who investigated “The Last Days of Hitler” in his most famous book but sullied his own reputation by incorrectly authenticating diaries said to have been the ...