The Hitler Hoax | 145
Scamfluencers
Wondery
4.1 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In the early 80s, a German magazine thought it had the scoop of the century: access to Adolf Hitler’s secret diaries. But as soon as excerpts of the diaries were released, critics pounced. Soon, the magazine that published them, the expert who verified them, and the journalist-slash-Nazi-enthusiast who sourced them are found to be victims of an artful forger… and of the allure of a story so incredible, it really was too good to be true.
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| 0:32.4 | Sarah, do you keep a diary? Have you ever kept a diary? You're already laughing, so I'm worried about what you're going to say. You know, that's very funny because it's the beginning of the |
| 0:36.6 | year, and one of my |
| 0:37.8 | resolutions was to keep a diary and to remember what I do all day. Like I want to remember what I |
| 0:43.9 | do during the day. Because as the youngest of four, there was always a fear that someone would be |
| 0:49.3 | finding my diary. But I live alone now. I can keep a diary and no one will find it unless I die and then my mom will |
| 0:55.0 | do you want me to take it before your mom gets to it? Yes, I will. I'm going to write that down |
| 1:02.3 | somewhere, yes. Okay, I will handle it for you and I will burn it immediately, I promise. Well, today's |
| 1:07.5 | episode is about a forger who tricked a lot of people into thinking that they |
| 1:11.8 | could read the deepest, most personal secrets of one of the most infamous dictators in history. |
| 1:17.7 | You know what's worse than reading someone's diary, Sarah? |
| 1:20.7 | Faking one. |
| 1:24.6 | It's 1983 in Stuttgart, a city in southwest Germany. |
| 1:29.3 | Conrad Kujo is starting off his day as he normally does, |
| 1:32.4 | sipping a cup of coffee with his wife, Edith. |
| 1:35.3 | Conrad is in his 40s with a round face, a bushy mustache, and a balding head. |
| 1:40.7 | He wears glasses and he's really giving academia, |
| 1:48.5 | which is fitting because he's a writer hard at work on a big project. |
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