On April 25, 1983, the Hamburg-based German weekly magazine Stern held a press conference live on television, which was attended by over 250 invited journalists from around the world. Star reporter Gerd Heidemann rose, holding aloft a notebook, and told the world that Stern magazine had a true global sensation: They had in their possession the lost diaries of Nazi dictator and mass murderer Adolf Hitler and they were going to publish excerpts in their magazine over the coming months. Worldwide syndication was planned and, according to Stern, the history of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich “would have to…

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