Konrad Kujau

Konrad Kujau
Konrad Kujau in 1992
Born	Konrad Paul Kujau (1938-06-27)27 June 1938 Löbau, Nazi Germany
Died	12 September 2000(2000-09-12) (aged 62) Stuttgart, Germany
Nationality	German
Known for	Forging the "Hitler Diaries"
Website	kujau-archiv.de

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.