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Gerd Heidemann is a German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 journalist
Journalism

Journalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and editorial via a widening spectrum of Media . These include newspapers, magazines, radio and television, the internet and, more recently, the cellphone....
 best known for his role in the publication of purported Hitler Diaries
Hitler Diaries

File:sterncover.jpgIn April 1983, the Germany news magazine Stern published extracts from what purported to be the diary of Adolf Hitler, known as the Hitler Diaries , which were subsequently revealed to be forgeries....
 that were subsequently proven to be forgeries
Forgery

Forgery is the process of making, adapting, or imitating objects, statistics, or documents , with the intent to deception. The similar crime of fraud is the crime of deceiving another, including through the use of objects obtained through forgery....
.

Heidemann came forward with his story of lost diaries written by the former Nazi
Nazism

Nazism, officially National Socialism , refers to the ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Workers? Party under Adolf Hitler, and the policies adopted by the dictatorial government of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945....
 dictator
Dictator

A dictator is an authoritarian ruler who assumes sole and absolute power without hereditary ascension such as an absolute monarch. When other states call the head of state of a particular state a dictator, that state is called a dictatorship....
 Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born Germany politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , popularly known as the Nazi Party....
 in 1983. He sold the rights to them to the West German magazine
Magazine

for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
 Stern
Stern (magazine)

Stern is a weekly news magazine published in Germany. It was founded in 1948 by Henri Nannen, and is currently published by Gruner + Jahr, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann....
 for DEM
German mark

The Deutsche Mark or German mark was the official currency of West Germany and, from 1990 until the adoption of the euro, all of unified Germany....
 10,000,000 (then approximately USD $6 million) along with his tale about how they had been hidden in a barn in East Germany for many years.






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Gerd Heidemann is a German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 journalist
Journalism

Journalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and editorial via a widening spectrum of Media . These include newspapers, magazines, radio and television, the internet and, more recently, the cellphone....
 best known for his role in the publication of purported Hitler Diaries
Hitler Diaries

File:sterncover.jpgIn April 1983, the Germany news magazine Stern published extracts from what purported to be the diary of Adolf Hitler, known as the Hitler Diaries , which were subsequently revealed to be forgeries....
 that were subsequently proven to be forgeries
Forgery

Forgery is the process of making, adapting, or imitating objects, statistics, or documents , with the intent to deception. The similar crime of fraud is the crime of deceiving another, including through the use of objects obtained through forgery....
.

Heidemann came forward with his story of lost diaries written by the former Nazi
Nazism

Nazism, officially National Socialism , refers to the ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Workers? Party under Adolf Hitler, and the policies adopted by the dictatorial government of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945....
 dictator
Dictator

A dictator is an authoritarian ruler who assumes sole and absolute power without hereditary ascension such as an absolute monarch. When other states call the head of state of a particular state a dictator, that state is called a dictatorship....
 Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born Germany politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , popularly known as the Nazi Party....
 in 1983. He sold the rights to them to the West German magazine
Magazine

for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
 Stern
Stern (magazine)

Stern is a weekly news magazine published in Germany. It was founded in 1948 by Henri Nannen, and is currently published by Gruner + Jahr, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann....
 for DEM
German mark

The Deutsche Mark or German mark was the official currency of West Germany and, from 1990 until the adoption of the euro, all of unified Germany....
 10,000,000 (then approximately USD $6 million) along with his tale about how they had been hidden in a barn in East Germany for many years. Several experts, including British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 Hitler expert Hugh Trevor-Roper came forward to pronounce the diaries to be authentic; when this was disproven Heidemann was arrested, tried, and sentenced to forty-two months imprisonment for fraud
Fraud

In the broadest sense, a fraud is a deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual. The specific legal definition varies by legal jurisdiction....
, as was Konrad Kujau
Konrad Kujau

Konrad Paul Kujau was an illustrator and forgery who became famous in 1983 as the creator of the so-called Hitler Diaries, for which he received 2.5 million German mark from a person who in turn sold it for 9.3 million DM to the magazine Stern ....
, who had actually done the forging of the books in Hitler's handwriting, as he had done previously with other fraudlent Hitler documents.

In a twist in the tale, it was revealed in 2002 that he had worked for the Stasi
Stasi

The Ministry for State Security,...
, although claiming to be a double agent
Double agent

"Double agent" is a counterintelligence term for someone who pretends to spy on a target organization on behalf of a controlling organization, but in fact is loyal to the target organization....
. In the BBC radio 4 programme broadcast on Sunday 7 September 2008, Heidemann vehemently denied that he had ever been a spy for the Stasi.