The History Podcast
Nazis, greed, deception and infamy - Andrew Hunter Murray goes back to the 1980s to uncover the hoax diaries that almost fooled the world.
Episodes (130 available)
An astonishing tale of greed, obsession and mass delusion told by Andrew Hunter Murray.
3 mins
21 April, 1945, Eastern Germany, a plane crashes. Rumours spread about Hitler's diaries.
14 mins
Star reporter for Stern magazine, Gerd Heidemann, is entertaining old Nazis on his boat.
13 mins
Andrew Hunter Murray travels to the scene of the crime where the forger ran his business.
14 mins
The forger Konrad Kujau and the journalist Gerd Heidemann are about to come face to face.
15 mins
Stern magazine is making frenzied preparations to launch its scoop of the century.
14 mins
Stern is just putting the final touches to its coverage and its promotional film.
14 mins
The world’s media is assembled, awaiting the ‘scoop of the century’.
14 mins
Stern magazine digs in, sticking by their story and their journalist Gerd Heidemann.
14 mins
Everything is falling apart for Gerd Heidemann and the heat is on forger Konrad Kujau.
14 mins
