Editing Gerd Heidemann (section)

===Hitler diaries===
Heidemann came forward with his story of lost diaries written by [[Adolf Hitler]] in 1983. He sold the rights to ''Stern'' for [[German mark|DM]]&nbsp;10,000,000 (then approximately US$6&nbsp;million), along with his tale about how they had been hidden in a barn in [[East Germany]] for many years. Several experts, including the British historian [[Hugh Trevor-Roper]], came forward to pronounce the diaries to be authentic. The "diaries" were exposed as fabrications and Heidemann was fired from Stern just weeks later.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1983/05/11/stern-fires-hitler-diary-reporter/a67909ba-1ac6-4c37-98a6-9f909a7a0bd7/|title=Stern Fires Hitler 'Diary' Reporter|website=washingtonpost.com|accessdate=28 April 2024}}</ref>  Following the revelations, Heidemann was arrested, tried and sentenced in 1985 to four and a half years in prison for [[fraud]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/25/newsid_4464000/4464109.stm |title=BBC ON THIS DAY &#124; 25 &#124; 1983: 'Hitler diaries' published |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=25 April 1983 |accessdate=20 February 2016}}</ref> Heidemann had also stolen some of the money from Kujau; and kept $600,000 of the money from Stern to acquire the diaries. He was renting expensive residences, buying new cars and jewellery and buying more Nazi memorabilia, of which a great amount was more of Kujau's forgeries.<ref name=rh>{{Cite book |first=Robert |last=Harris |title=Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries |location=London |publisher=Faber |year=1991 |orig-year=1986 |isbn=9780571147267 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/sellinghitlersto0000harr/page/159 159–61] |url=https://archive.org/details/sellinghitlersto0000harr/page/159 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-07-08-mn-9688-story.html|title=3 Found Guilty in Sale of Fake 'Hitler Diaries'|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|accessdate=28 April 2024}}</ref>