BBC Radio 4 - The History Podcast, The Hitler Diaries Scandal

10. Downfall

10/11 Andrew Hunter Murray tracks down Hitler’s faked diaries to the Bundesarchiv in Koblenz.

9/11 Everything is falling apart for Gerd Heidemann and the heat is on forger Konrad Kujau.

8/11 Stern magazine digs in, sticking by their story and their journalist Gerd Heidemann.

7/11 The world’s media is assembled, awaiting the ‘scoop of the century’.

6/11 Stern is just putting the final touches to its coverage and its promotional film.

5/11 Stern magazine is making frenzied preparations to launch its scoop of the century.

4/11 The forger Konrad Kujau and the journalist Gerd Heidemann are about to come face to face.

3/11 Andrew Hunter Murray travels to the scene of the crime where the forger ran his business.

2/11 Star reporter for Stern magazine, Gerd Heidemann, is entertaining old Nazis on his boat.

1/11 21 April, 1945, Eastern Germany, a plane crashes. Rumours spread about Hitler's diaries.