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Selling Hitler is a 1991 ITV television drama-documentary mini-series about the Hitler Diaries hoax and was based on Robert Harris's 1986 book Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries

The five-part series was directed by Alastair Reid and starred Jonathan Pryce as Gerd Heidemann, Alexei Sayle as Konrad Kujau, Tom Baker as Gruner + Jahr Chairman Manfred Fischer, Alan Bennett as Hugh Trevor-Roper, Roger Lloyd Pack as David Irving, Richard Wilson as Henri Nannen Alison Doody as Gina Heidemann, Julie T. Wallace as Edith Lieblang, Peter Capaldi as Thomas Walde, John Shrapnel as Gerd Schulte-Hillen, Philip Fox as Leo Pesch, John Boswall as August Priesack, John Paul as Karl Wolff and Barry Humphries as Rupert Murdoch. The series, which The Guardian described as "a rollicking comedy with black edges," was released on Region 1 DVD in July 2010.[1]

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