April 25th, 1983 (40 years ago): German magazine "Der Stern" holds its most infamous press conference, officially announcing what they thought to be the headline of the century, "We have Hitler's diaries" - 62 volumes.
"Stern" began publishing excerpts from the dieares three days later in their regular (weekly) issue.
Analytic examinations in May 1983 came to the conclusion that the pages were luminecent when hit with UV light, which meant the paper contained optical brighteners, which were only introduced in the 1950s. The rrthreads which held the seals were also coloured with a pigment that hadn't been available before 1956.
The diaries were forgeries, and not even good ones.
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