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Selling Hitler is a 1991 ITV television comedy-drama mini-series about the Hitler Diaries hoax and was based on Robert Harris's 1986 book Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries.
Selling Hitler: With Jonathan Pryce, Alexei Sayle, Alison Doody, Julie T. Wallace. The true story of the biggest fraud in publishing history - the Hitler diaries.
Murdoch gets cagey during negotiations, his expert gets cold feet, and Stern's big press conference turns nasty. Based on a true story, this uproarious farce dramatizes the making of a modern-day publishing fiasco. Emmy nominee Jonathan Pryce (Brazil, Pirates of the Caribbean) stars as Gerd.
Selling Hitler. Robert Harris. 3.96. 1,784 ratings156 reviews. Chronicles the story of the creation, manufacture, and sale of the fraudulent "Hitler Diaries," a con game that successfully fooled leading historians and publishers because of their obsession with the Nazi mystique. Genres Nonfiction History Germany True Crime World War II Crime War.
Episode #1.1: Directed by Alastair Reid. With Jonathan Pryce, Alexei Sayle, Alison Doody, Alison Steadman. Stern journalist Gerd "The Bloodhound" Heidemann picks up the scent of his biggest scoop ever: a cache of documents handwritten by Hitler himself.
Heidemann convinces Stern magazine's owners to pay for his acquisition of Hitler's diaries. But they bankroll much more than they bargained for. 7.4/10. Rate. Seasons. Years. Top-rated. 1991. Top-rated.
APRIL 1983: In a bank vault in Switzerland, a German magazine offers to sell more than 50 volumes of Hitler's secret diaries. The asking price is $4 million. 40 years from the alleged discovery, Robert Harris chronicles the gripping tale of one of the biggest frauds in history.
