Selling Hitler

The story

In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler. Over the next two years, Heidemann and the senior management figures at Stern secretly pay 10 million German marks to a mysterious 'Dr Fischer' for the sixty volumes of 'Hitler's diaries'. However, to the dismay of all, it is discovered after the publication of first extract that the diaries are crude forgeries, faked by Stuttgart criminal Konrad Kujau.

Cast

J Jonathan PryceGerd Heidemann A Alexei SayleKonrad 'Conny' Fischer A Alan BennettHugh Trevor-Roper T Tom BakerManfred Fischer A Alison DoodyGina Heidemann R Roger Lloyd PackDavid Irving R Richard WilsonHenri Nannen P Peter CapaldiThomas Walde J Julie T. WallaceEdith Lieblang B Barry HumphriesRupert Murdoch J John ShrapnelGerd Schulte-Hillen A Alison SteadmanEdda Goering

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F Frederick JaegerFritz Stiefel O Olivier PierrePeter Koch T Thomas WheatleyJan Hensmann J John PaulKarl Wolff P Philip FoxLeo Pesch P Philip BowenWilfried Sorge E Elaine CollinsMaria Modritsch G Gregory de PolnayPhilip Knightley T Tristram JellinekMagnus Linklater J James AubreyCongo Randy A Anthony DawsonMarquis of Bath M Michael LeesHans Bauer R Ralph MichaelWilhelm Mohnke H Hugh FutcherSidney Mayer J Jill BalconLady Alexandra Dacre H Hugh SimonPeter Kuehsel T Tony SibbaldMaynard Parker G Gabrielle BluntGerda Christian N Norman ChancerGerhard Weinberg J Janet CrawfordMrs Fritz Stiefel D Devon ScottBarbara Dickmann M Michael ElwynBrian MacArthur T Trevor BaxterFrank Giles E Edwin CraigWilliam Broyles C Caroline StrongValkyrie E Elizabeth SpenderValkyrie J John QuentinSelling Hitler