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The Hitler Diaries with Adrian Daub

2025/6/11
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Sarah Marshall: 我对希特勒日记的骗局非常感兴趣，因为这不仅仅是一个简单的谎言，它揭示了人们内心深处不为人知的真相。这个故事引发了关于伪造者、参与者和公众需求的问题。我喜欢这种揭示谎言背后真相的故事，它让我思考人们为什么会相信这些虚假的信息，以及这种信念背后隐藏的动机和欲望。我希望通过这次讨论，能够更深入地了解这个骗局的本质，以及它对历史和社会的影响。 Adrian Daub: 伪造希特勒日记的骗局，实际上是1980年代过度承诺和追求金钱的产物。伪造者康拉德·库亚，可能只是一个过度劳累，被迫不断制造假日记来满足市场需求的普通人。这个故事揭示了人们对纳粹历史的扭曲迷恋，以及媒体为了追求轰动效应而不惜牺牲真相的丑陋现实。作为一名文学学者，我认为日记中疲惫不堪的希特勒形象，实际上是库亚本人的一种自画像，反映了他为了维持这个骗局而付出的巨大努力和内心的挣扎。这个故事不仅仅是一个骗局，它反映了那个时代人们的价值观和心理状态。

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The episode explores the hoax surrounding the fake Hitler diaries, raising questions about the fabrication process, motivations, and public credulity. It's compared to other hoaxes and explores the financial aspects.
  • Fake Hitler diaries captivated the public.
  • Questions raised about fabrication, motivations, and public reaction.
  • Comparison to fake trauma memoirs.
  • Significant financial gains possible from such hoaxes.

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What happens when you’re just a little too good at forging the diaries of Adolf Hitler? And why did so many people want to read them? In 1983, the West German news magazine Stern bought sixty volumes of forged journals and held a press conference to announce their publication. This week, Adrian Daub of podcasts In Bed With the Right) and The Feminist Present is here to tell us all about what would be the publishing hoax to end all hoaxes…if only the book in question wasn’t so boring. 

**More about Adrian Daub:**https://www.adriandaub.com/

More about the Hitler Diaries (German language podcast):

https://www.stern.de/faking-hitler/)

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