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What happens when you’re just a little too good at forging the diaries of Adolf Hitler? And why did so many people want to read them? In 1983, the West German news magazine Stern bought sixty volumes of forged journals and held a press conference to announce their publication. This week, Adrian Daub of podcasts In Bed With the Right and The Feminist Present is here to tell us all about what would be the publishing hoax to end all hoaxes…if only the book in question wasn’t so boring.
More about Adrian Daub:
https://www.adriandaub.com/
More about the Hitler Diaries (German language podcast):
https://www.stern.de/faking-hitler/
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What happens when you’re just a little too good at forging the diaries of Adolf Hitler? And why did so many people want to read them? In 1983, the West German news magazine Stern bought sixty volumes of forged journals and held a press conference to announce their publication. This week, Adrian Daub of podcasts In Bed With the Right and The Feminist Present is here to tell us all about what would be the publishing hoax to end all hoaxes…if only the book in question wasn’t so boring.
More about Adrian Daub:
https://www.adriandaub.com/
More about the Hitler Diaries (German language podcast):
https://www.stern.de/faking-hitler/
Support You're Wrong About:
Bonus Episodes on Patreon
Buy cute merch
Where else to find us:
Sarah's other show, You Are Good
Support the show
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