''Faking Hitler'' is a German

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that was released on

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on 30 November 2021. It is a partial dramatization of the events surrounding the publication of the forged Hitler Diaries in the early 1980s. The title ''Faking Hitler'' was interpreted as an allusion to the book ''Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries'' (1986) by Robert Harris and the 1991 series of the same name.

Plot

In 1981, Gerd Heidemann a reporter with the German magazine ''

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'', discovers what he believes are the multi-volume diaries of

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, persuading ''Stern'' to purchase and serialize them. Although eminent historians such as Hugh Trevor-Roper had verified the diaries as authentic, it is discovered after the publication of the first extract that the diaries are crude forgeries by Stuttgart criminal Konrad Kujau.

Production

The miniseries was shot in

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and

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from April 7 to May 29, 2021. On October 23, 2021, the miniseries premiered at the Filmpalast in

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as part of Film Festival Cologne.

Awards

The series was nominated for the 2022 Venice TV Award.

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