W. German man arrested in Hitler diary scandal

May 16, 1983

The man who sold the forged Hitler diaries to the West German magazine Stern was arrested this weekend and awaited questioning in a Hamburg jail. Konrad Kujau, a Stuttgart dealer in Nazi memorabilia, surrendered to police at the Bavarian border but denied the charges of fraud for which he was sought. Meanwhile, the staff of Stern vowed to continue their sit-in protest against the management changes which followed the forgeries affair.