On 25 April 1983 the German magazine Stern presented notebooks in Hamburg from a set of 60 volumes it attributed to Adolf Hitler. The writing resembled known samples. The German Federal Archives obtained three volumes to examine. Investigators could now look at the thread holding the pages together, the bindings and the ink.
What did the evidence show?
Much of the material examined was incompatible with a wartime origin. In further volumes, archivists spotted another clue. The entries repeated errors in a collection of speeches edited by Max Domarus and fell silent where his collection had gaps. On 6 May the archives announced the diaries were forgeries. Its online gallery shows a diary page and the press release issued that day.
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