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Photo of a middle-aged man standing in front of an abstract painting
Forger Konrad Kujau (1938–2000) with one of his works. Kujau was a creator of fake Nazi memorabilia, including paintings he claimed were by Hitler. His crowning achievement was the sixty volumes of the so-called Hitler diaries, which he sold to Stern magazine in the early 1980s for $3.7 million.