Gerd Heidemann, journalist at center of Hitler diary hoax, dies at 93
Washington Post
In 1983, he reported that he had found the diaries of Adolf Hitler — a “scoop of the century” that was the mistake of a lifetime. The diaries were forged.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/12/20/gerd-heidemann-hitler-diaries-dead/