Konrad Paul Kujau was a German illustrator and forger. 8 million for Heidemann. The forgery resulted in a four-and-half-year prison sentence for Kujau.
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Konrad Paul Kujau was a German illustrator and forger. He became famous in 1983 as the creator of the so-called Hitler Diaries, for which he received DM 2.5 million from a journalist, Gerd Heidemann, who in turn sold it for DM 9.3 million to the magazine Stern, resulting in a net profit of DM 6.8 million for Heidemann. The forgery resulted in a four-and-half-year prison sentence for Kujau.
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deceased
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Lived 1938 to 2000 · aged 62
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