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German illustrator and forger (1938–2000)

Konrad Paul Kujau (27 June 1938 – 12 September 2000) 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 (€2,421,020 in 2020 terms, adjusted for inflation) 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 (€6,585,174 in 2020 terms, adjusted for inflation) for Heidemann.

The forgery resulted in a four-and-half-year prison sentence for Kujau.

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Biography

Early life

"Konny" Kujau was born in Löbau, Nazi Germany, one of six children of Richard Kujau, a cobbler, and his wife, both of whom had joined the Nazi Party in 1933. Kujau's early life was of unremitting poverty and his mother was obliged to send her children into orphanages for periods of time.

The boy grew up believing in the Nazi ideals and idolising Adolf Hitler; the defeat by