Selling Hitler is a 1991 ITV television drama-documentary mini-series about the Hitler Diaries hoax and was based on Robert Harris's 1986 book Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries.
Plot
In 1981, Gerd Heidemann (Jonathan Pryce), a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler. Over the next two years, Heidemann and the senior management figures at Stern secretly pay 9 million German marks to a mysterious 'Dr Fischer' (Alexei Sayle) for the sixty volumes of 'Hitler's diaries', plus a "special volume" about Rudolf Hess's flight to the United Kingdom, covering the period from 1932 to 1945. Some of the money is made as payment to 'Dr Fischer', but the larger proportion goes into Heidemann's own pocket, to finance his extravagant lifestyle and collection of World War IImemorabilia, including the yacht of Hermann Göring.
Writer Robert Harris discusses the ideas and inspiration behind his 1986 book Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries, which marked his transition from non-fiction to fiction writing. This is an excerpt from the Guardian Book Club's discussion of Harris's novel Fatherland at the Guardian Open Weekend festival on 24 March 2012
published: 03 Apr 2012
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erman reporter Gerd "The Bloodhound" Heidemann has sniffed out a scoop that will revive his career: the lost diaries of Adolf Hitler. He convinces Stern magazine to pay millions. Soon historians, Newsweek magazine, and Rupert Murdoch are on board—but the diaries are fake. Based on a true story of greed and stupidity, this uproarious farce stars Emmy® nominee Jonathan Pryce (Pirates of the Caribbean). "A rollicking comedy with black edges"—Guardian (UK). Available for purchase at http://www.acornonline.com!
published: 10 Mar 2011
"Selling Hitler": Out on DVD 14/10/2013
The sensational 'discovery' of Hitler's diaries and subsequent realisation that they were forged caused a world-wide scandal in 1983. Alastair Reid's tongue-in-cheek five-part dramatisation, based on Robert Harris' best-selling novel, exposes the machinations that led to Stern magazine's announcement of the scoop of the century; the ensuing bidding war for serialisation rights, acrimony among the eminent historians who were taken in and, finally, the diaries' exposure as an elaborate hoax.
Winner of a Royal Television Society award, this Euston Films mini-series features a luminary cast -- including, among many others, Jonathan Pryce, Alexei Sayle, Tom Baker, Alan Bennett, Peter Capaldi and Barry Humphries. - See more at: http://networkonair.com/shop/1816-selling-hitler-the-complete-serie...
published: 19 Sep 2013
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published: 17 Sep 2020
Nazi Memorabilia for Sale
The market for Nazi memorabilia is growing fast. A recent auction grabbed hundreds of thousands of dollars for some of Adolf Hitler's most prized possession. Buying and selling Nazi memorabilia is legal but controversial. And we look at whether a moral line should be drawn.
Alex Benjamin, The European Jewish Association 03:44
#Nazi #Memorabilia #Hitler
published: 10 Jan 2020
The Bizarre Deception of Hitler's Diaries | Tales From the Bottle
This hunt for Hitler's personal diaries broke into an international scandal - but not for the reasons you might think.
"The Hitler Diaries (German: Hitler-Tagebücher) were a series of sixty volumes of journals purportedly written by Adolf Hitler, but forged by Konrad Kujau between 1981 and 1983. The diaries were purchased in 1983 for 9.3 million Deutsche Marks (£2.33 million or $3.7 million) by the West German news magazine Stern, which sold serialisation rights to several news organisations. One of the publications involved was The Sunday Times, who asked their independent director, the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, to authenticate the diaries; he did so, pronouncing them genuine. At the press conference to announce the publication, Trevor-Roper announced that on reflection he had changed...
published: 05 Mar 2021
Selling Hitler
In this episode I’m talking to Nicholas O'Shaughnessy. Nicholas is is currently Visiting Professor in the Centre for Strategic Communication at King's College London. His new book Selling Hitler examines the Nazi’s use of propaganda and argues Hitler was one of the few politicians who understood that persuasion was everything and was the central to creating an all encompassing strategy...
published: 15 Oct 2016
The Power Of A Slogan: Hitler's Secret Messaging | Hitler's Propaganda Machine | Timeline
Nazi Propaganda: Hitler saw propaganda emerge as a powerful tool of psychological warfare, one that he would use to build the Nazi movement.
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published: 12 Sep 2020
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Writer Robert Harris discusses the ideas and inspiration behind his 1986 book Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries, which marked his transition from ...
Writer Robert Harris discusses the ideas and inspiration behind his 1986 book Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries, which marked his transition from non-fiction to fiction writing. This is an excerpt from the Guardian Book Club's discussion of Harris's novel Fatherland at the Guardian Open Weekend festival on 24 March 2012
Writer Robert Harris discusses the ideas and inspiration behind his 1986 book Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries, which marked his transition from non-fiction to fiction writing. This is an excerpt from the Guardian Book Club's discussion of Harris's novel Fatherland at the Guardian Open Weekend festival on 24 March 2012
erman reporter Gerd "The Bloodhound" Heidemann has sniffed out a scoop that will revive his career: the lost diaries of Adolf Hitler. He convinces Stern magazin...
erman reporter Gerd "The Bloodhound" Heidemann has sniffed out a scoop that will revive his career: the lost diaries of Adolf Hitler. He convinces Stern magazine to pay millions. Soon historians, Newsweek magazine, and Rupert Murdoch are on board—but the diaries are fake. Based on a true story of greed and stupidity, this uproarious farce stars Emmy® nominee Jonathan Pryce (Pirates of the Caribbean). "A rollicking comedy with black edges"—Guardian (UK). Available for purchase at http://www.acornonline.com!
erman reporter Gerd "The Bloodhound" Heidemann has sniffed out a scoop that will revive his career: the lost diaries of Adolf Hitler. He convinces Stern magazine to pay millions. Soon historians, Newsweek magazine, and Rupert Murdoch are on board—but the diaries are fake. Based on a true story of greed and stupidity, this uproarious farce stars Emmy® nominee Jonathan Pryce (Pirates of the Caribbean). "A rollicking comedy with black edges"—Guardian (UK). Available for purchase at http://www.acornonline.com!
The sensational 'discovery' of Hitler's diaries and subsequent realisation that they were forged caused a world-wide scandal in 1983. Alastair Reid's tongue-in-...
The sensational 'discovery' of Hitler's diaries and subsequent realisation that they were forged caused a world-wide scandal in 1983. Alastair Reid's tongue-in-cheek five-part dramatisation, based on Robert Harris' best-selling novel, exposes the machinations that led to Stern magazine's announcement of the scoop of the century; the ensuing bidding war for serialisation rights, acrimony among the eminent historians who were taken in and, finally, the diaries' exposure as an elaborate hoax.
Winner of a Royal Television Society award, this Euston Films mini-series features a luminary cast -- including, among many others, Jonathan Pryce, Alexei Sayle, Tom Baker, Alan Bennett, Peter Capaldi and Barry Humphries. - See more at: http://networkonair.com/shop/1816-selling-hitler-the-complete-series-5027626399047.html#sthash.MTlKa5Ab.dpuf
The sensational 'discovery' of Hitler's diaries and subsequent realisation that they were forged caused a world-wide scandal in 1983. Alastair Reid's tongue-in-cheek five-part dramatisation, based on Robert Harris' best-selling novel, exposes the machinations that led to Stern magazine's announcement of the scoop of the century; the ensuing bidding war for serialisation rights, acrimony among the eminent historians who were taken in and, finally, the diaries' exposure as an elaborate hoax.
Winner of a Royal Television Society award, this Euston Films mini-series features a luminary cast -- including, among many others, Jonathan Pryce, Alexei Sayle, Tom Baker, Alan Bennett, Peter Capaldi and Barry Humphries. - See more at: http://networkonair.com/shop/1816-selling-hitler-the-complete-series-5027626399047.html#sthash.MTlKa5Ab.dpuf
The decade of propaganda, impassioned speeches, newspaper articles, posters and campaigning that led to one moment, Hitler being made Chancellor of Germany in 1...
The decade of propaganda, impassioned speeches, newspaper articles, posters and campaigning that led to one moment, Hitler being made Chancellor of Germany in 1933.
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The decade of propaganda, impassioned speeches, newspaper articles, posters and campaigning that led to one moment, Hitler being made Chancellor of Germany in 1933.
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The market for Nazi memorabilia is growing fast. A recent auction grabbed hundreds of thousands of dollars for some of Adolf Hitler's most prized possession. Bu...
The market for Nazi memorabilia is growing fast. A recent auction grabbed hundreds of thousands of dollars for some of Adolf Hitler's most prized possession. Buying and selling Nazi memorabilia is legal but controversial. And we look at whether a moral line should be drawn.
Alex Benjamin, The European Jewish Association 03:44
#Nazi #Memorabilia #Hitler
The market for Nazi memorabilia is growing fast. A recent auction grabbed hundreds of thousands of dollars for some of Adolf Hitler's most prized possession. Buying and selling Nazi memorabilia is legal but controversial. And we look at whether a moral line should be drawn.
Alex Benjamin, The European Jewish Association 03:44
#Nazi #Memorabilia #Hitler
This hunt for Hitler's personal diaries broke into an international scandal - but not for the reasons you might think.
"The Hitler Diaries (German: Hitler-Tage...
This hunt for Hitler's personal diaries broke into an international scandal - but not for the reasons you might think.
"The Hitler Diaries (German: Hitler-Tagebücher) were a series of sixty volumes of journals purportedly written by Adolf Hitler, but forged by Konrad Kujau between 1981 and 1983. The diaries were purchased in 1983 for 9.3 million Deutsche Marks (£2.33 million or $3.7 million) by the West German news magazine Stern, which sold serialisation rights to several news organisations. One of the publications involved was The Sunday Times, who asked their independent director, the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, to authenticate the diaries; he did so, pronouncing them genuine. At the press conference to announce the publication, Trevor-Roper announced that on reflection he had changed his mind, and other historians also raised questions concerning their validity. Rigorous forensic analysis, which had not been performed previously, quickly confirmed that the diaries were fakes.
Kujau, born and raised in East Germany, had a history of petty crime and deception. In the mid-1970s he began selling Nazi memorabilia which he was smuggling from the East, but found he could raise the prices by forging additional authentication details to link ordinary souvenirs to the Nazi leaders. He began forging paintings by Hitler and an increasing number of notes, poems and letters, until he produced his first diary in the mid- to late 1970s. The West German journalist with Stern who "discovered" the diaries and was involved in their purchase was Gerd Heidemann, who had an obsession with the Nazis. When Stern started buying the diaries, Heidemann stole a significant proportion of the money.
Kujau and Heidemann spent time in prison for their parts in the fraud, and several newspaper editors lost their jobs. The story of the scandal was the basis for the films Selling Hitler (1991) for the British channel ITV and the German cinema release Schtonk! (1992)."
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This hunt for Hitler's personal diaries broke into an international scandal - but not for the reasons you might think.
"The Hitler Diaries (German: Hitler-Tagebücher) were a series of sixty volumes of journals purportedly written by Adolf Hitler, but forged by Konrad Kujau between 1981 and 1983. The diaries were purchased in 1983 for 9.3 million Deutsche Marks (£2.33 million or $3.7 million) by the West German news magazine Stern, which sold serialisation rights to several news organisations. One of the publications involved was The Sunday Times, who asked their independent director, the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, to authenticate the diaries; he did so, pronouncing them genuine. At the press conference to announce the publication, Trevor-Roper announced that on reflection he had changed his mind, and other historians also raised questions concerning their validity. Rigorous forensic analysis, which had not been performed previously, quickly confirmed that the diaries were fakes.
Kujau, born and raised in East Germany, had a history of petty crime and deception. In the mid-1970s he began selling Nazi memorabilia which he was smuggling from the East, but found he could raise the prices by forging additional authentication details to link ordinary souvenirs to the Nazi leaders. He began forging paintings by Hitler and an increasing number of notes, poems and letters, until he produced his first diary in the mid- to late 1970s. The West German journalist with Stern who "discovered" the diaries and was involved in their purchase was Gerd Heidemann, who had an obsession with the Nazis. When Stern started buying the diaries, Heidemann stole a significant proportion of the money.
Kujau and Heidemann spent time in prison for their parts in the fraud, and several newspaper editors lost their jobs. The story of the scandal was the basis for the films Selling Hitler (1991) for the British channel ITV and the German cinema release Schtonk! (1992)."
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In this episode I’m talking to Nicholas O'Shaughnessy. Nicholas is is currently Visiting Professor in the Centre for Strategic Communication at King's College L...
In this episode I’m talking to Nicholas O'Shaughnessy. Nicholas is is currently Visiting Professor in the Centre for Strategic Communication at King's College London. His new book Selling Hitler examines the Nazi’s use of propaganda and argues Hitler was one of the few politicians who understood that persuasion was everything and was the central to creating an all encompassing strategy...
In this episode I’m talking to Nicholas O'Shaughnessy. Nicholas is is currently Visiting Professor in the Centre for Strategic Communication at King's College London. His new book Selling Hitler examines the Nazi’s use of propaganda and argues Hitler was one of the few politicians who understood that persuasion was everything and was the central to creating an all encompassing strategy...
Nazi Propaganda: Hitler saw propaganda emerge as a powerful tool of psychological warfare, one that he would use to build the Nazi movement.
It's like Netflix...
Nazi Propaganda: Hitler saw propaganda emerge as a powerful tool of psychological warfare, one that he would use to build the Nazi movement.
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Nazi Propaganda: Hitler saw propaganda emerge as a powerful tool of psychological warfare, one that he would use to build the Nazi movement.
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Writer Robert Harris discusses the ideas and inspiration behind his 1986 book Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries, which marked his transition from non-fiction to fiction writing. This is an excerpt from the Guardian Book Club's discussion of Harris's novel Fatherland at the Guardian Open Weekend festival on 24 March 2012
erman reporter Gerd "The Bloodhound" Heidemann has sniffed out a scoop that will revive his career: the lost diaries of Adolf Hitler. He convinces Stern magazine to pay millions. Soon historians, Newsweek magazine, and Rupert Murdoch are on board—but the diaries are fake. Based on a true story of greed and stupidity, this uproarious farce stars Emmy® nominee Jonathan Pryce (Pirates of the Caribbean). "A rollicking comedy with black edges"—Guardian (UK). Available for purchase at http://www.acornonline.com!
The sensational 'discovery' of Hitler's diaries and subsequent realisation that they were forged caused a world-wide scandal in 1983. Alastair Reid's tongue-in-cheek five-part dramatisation, based on Robert Harris' best-selling novel, exposes the machinations that led to Stern magazine's announcement of the scoop of the century; the ensuing bidding war for serialisation rights, acrimony among the eminent historians who were taken in and, finally, the diaries' exposure as an elaborate hoax.
Winner of a Royal Television Society award, this Euston Films mini-series features a luminary cast -- including, among many others, Jonathan Pryce, Alexei Sayle, Tom Baker, Alan Bennett, Peter Capaldi and Barry Humphries. - See more at: http://networkonair.com/shop/1816-selling-hitler-the-complete-series-5027626399047.html#sthash.MTlKa5Ab.dpuf
The decade of propaganda, impassioned speeches, newspaper articles, posters and campaigning that led to one moment, Hitler being made Chancellor of Germany in 1933.
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The market for Nazi memorabilia is growing fast. A recent auction grabbed hundreds of thousands of dollars for some of Adolf Hitler's most prized possession. Buying and selling Nazi memorabilia is legal but controversial. And we look at whether a moral line should be drawn.
Alex Benjamin, The European Jewish Association 03:44
#Nazi #Memorabilia #Hitler
This hunt for Hitler's personal diaries broke into an international scandal - but not for the reasons you might think.
"The Hitler Diaries (German: Hitler-Tagebücher) were a series of sixty volumes of journals purportedly written by Adolf Hitler, but forged by Konrad Kujau between 1981 and 1983. The diaries were purchased in 1983 for 9.3 million Deutsche Marks (£2.33 million or $3.7 million) by the West German news magazine Stern, which sold serialisation rights to several news organisations. One of the publications involved was The Sunday Times, who asked their independent director, the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, to authenticate the diaries; he did so, pronouncing them genuine. At the press conference to announce the publication, Trevor-Roper announced that on reflection he had changed his mind, and other historians also raised questions concerning their validity. Rigorous forensic analysis, which had not been performed previously, quickly confirmed that the diaries were fakes.
Kujau, born and raised in East Germany, had a history of petty crime and deception. In the mid-1970s he began selling Nazi memorabilia which he was smuggling from the East, but found he could raise the prices by forging additional authentication details to link ordinary souvenirs to the Nazi leaders. He began forging paintings by Hitler and an increasing number of notes, poems and letters, until he produced his first diary in the mid- to late 1970s. The West German journalist with Stern who "discovered" the diaries and was involved in their purchase was Gerd Heidemann, who had an obsession with the Nazis. When Stern started buying the diaries, Heidemann stole a significant proportion of the money.
Kujau and Heidemann spent time in prison for their parts in the fraud, and several newspaper editors lost their jobs. The story of the scandal was the basis for the films Selling Hitler (1991) for the British channel ITV and the German cinema release Schtonk! (1992)."
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In this episode I’m talking to Nicholas O'Shaughnessy. Nicholas is is currently Visiting Professor in the Centre for Strategic Communication at King's College London. His new book Selling Hitler examines the Nazi’s use of propaganda and argues Hitler was one of the few politicians who understood that persuasion was everything and was the central to creating an all encompassing strategy...
Nazi Propaganda: Hitler saw propaganda emerge as a powerful tool of psychological warfare, one that he would use to build the Nazi movement.
It's like Netflix for history... Sign up to History Hit, the world's best history documentary service, at a huge discount using the code 'TIMELINE' ---ᐳ http://bit.ly/3a7ambu
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Selling Hitler is a 1991 ITV television drama-documentary mini-series about the Hitler Diaries hoax and was based on Robert Harris's 1986 book Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries.
Plot
In 1981, Gerd Heidemann (Jonathan Pryce), a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler. Over the next two years, Heidemann and the senior management figures at Stern secretly pay 9 million German marks to a mysterious 'Dr Fischer' (Alexei Sayle) for the sixty volumes of 'Hitler's diaries', plus a "special volume" about Rudolf Hess's flight to the United Kingdom, covering the period from 1932 to 1945. Some of the money is made as payment to 'Dr Fischer', but the larger proportion goes into Heidemann's own pocket, to finance his extravagant lifestyle and collection of World War IImemorabilia, including the yacht of Hermann Göring.