Maximilian Bernhard Domarus (1911–1992) was a German writer, historian, researcher, archivist, translator, and publicist. Domarus is best known for his historical work on the

Third Reich Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictat ...

and the speeches of

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his suicide in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the lea ...

. Domarus was the author and editor of the 3,330-page four-volume set entitled '' Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations 1932–1945: The Chronicle of a Dictatorship''. Domarus' work is generally considered the most essential and reliable resource on the speeches of Hitler and a unique chronicle of the Third Reich. However, there were also some chronological and factual errors in the original first Edition: these errors helped expose

Konrad Kujau 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 ...

's forged

Hitler Diaries The Hitler Diaries () were a series of sixty volumes of journals purportedly written by Adolf Hitler, but forged by Konrad Kujau between 1981 and 1983. The diaries were purchased in 1983 for 9.3 million Deutsche Marks (£2.3 million ...

, which copied from the original first edition as its main source, since Kujau copied these errors into the Diaries.

Bibliography

* Domarus, M. (1990). '' Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations 1932 – 1934. The Chronicle of a Dictatorship. V1.'' * Domarus, M. (1992). '' Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations 1935 – 1938. The Chronicle of a Dictatorship. V2.'' * Domarus, M. (1996). '' Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations 1939 – 1940. The Chronicle of a Dictatorship. V3.'' * Domarus, M. (2004). '' Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations 1941 – 1945. The Chronicle of a Dictatorship. V4.''

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