Editing Hitler Diaries (section)

===''Stern'', ''The Sunday Times'' and ''Newsweek''===
[[File:Rupert Murdoch - WEF Davos 2007.jpg|upright|thumb|alt=A spectacled man in his seventies faces to the left of the viewer. His hands are in front of him, the fingers interlinked.|[[Rupert Murdoch]], the owner of ''[[The Sunday Times]]'', in 2007]]
{{lang|de|Stern}} (German for "Star"), a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg, was formed by the journalist and businessman [[Henri Nannen]] in 1948 to offer scandal, gossip and [[human interest]] stories.{{sfn|Harris|1991|pp=59–60}} It was, according to the German media experts Frank Esser and Uwe Hartung, known for its [[investigative journalism]] and was politically left-of-centre.{{sfn|Esser|Hartung|2004|p=1063}} In 1981 Nannen resigned from his position of editor of the magazine, and moved to take the role of "publisher". In his place ''Stern'' had three editors: Peter Koch, Rolf Gillhausen and Felix Schmidt, who were aided by others including the journal's head of contemporary history, Thomas Walde. Manfred Fischer was [[Chief executive officer|CEO]] of Gruner + Jahr until 1981 when he was promoted to the board of [[Bertelsmann]], their parent company; he was replaced by Gerd Schulte-Hillen. Wilfried Sorge was one of the Gruner + Jahr managers responsible for international sales.{{sfn|Harris|1991|p=13}}<ref name="Zeit: Schmidt 2" />

''[[The Sunday Times]]'' is a British national [[broadsheet]] newspaper, the Sunday [[sister paper]] of ''[[The Times]]''. In 1968, under the ownership of [[Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet|Lord Thomson]], ''The Sunday Times'' had been involved in a deal to purchase the [[Mussolini diaries]] for an agreed final purchase price of £250,000, although they had only paid out an initial amount of £60,000.{{efn|£60,000 in 1968 is approximately £{{Inflation|UK|50000|1950|cursign=£|fmt=c|r=-1}} in {{Inflation/year|UK}}, according to calculations based on [[Consumer Price Index (United Kingdom)|Consumer Price Index]] measure of inflation.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Clark|first1=Gregory|title=The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)|url=https://www.measuringworth.com/ukearncpi/|access-date=22 February 2023|publisher=MeasuringWorth|date=2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230401021917/https://www.measuringworth.com/datasets/ukearncpi/|archive-date=1 April 2023}}</ref>}} These turned out to be forgeries undertaken by an Italian mother and daughter, Amalia and Rosa Panvini.<ref name="Obs: Musso diares" /> In 1981 [[Rupert Murdoch]], who owned several other papers in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, purchased Times Newspapers Ltd, which owned both ''The Times'' and its Sunday sister.{{sfn|Tuccille|1989|pp=42, 81}} Murdoch appointed [[Frank Giles]] to be the editor of ''The Sunday Times''.{{sfn|Harris|1991|p=11}} The historian [[Hugh Trevor-Roper]] became an [[Non-executive director|independent national director]] of ''The Times'' in 1974. Trevor-Roper—who was created Baron Dacre of Glanton in 1979—was a specialist on Nazi Germany, who had worked for the [[MI6|British Intelligence Services]] during and after the Second World War. At the war's end he had undertaken an official investigation of Hitler's death, interviewing eyewitnesses to the [[Führer]]'s last movements.{{sfn|Davenport-Hines|2004}} In addition to the official report he filed, Trevor-Roper also published ''The Last Days of Hitler'' (1947) on the subject. He subsequently wrote about the Nazis in ''Hitler's War Directives'' (1964) and ''Hitler's Place in History'' (1965).{{sfn|Davenport-Hines|2004}}

''[[Newsweek]]'', an American weekly news magazine, was founded in 1933. In 1982 the journalist [[William Broyles, Jr.|William Broyles]] was appointed editor-in-chief, while the editor was Maynard Parker; that year the company had circulation figures of three&nbsp;million readers.{{sfn|Blanchard|2013|p=431}}{{sfn|Harless|1985|p=152}}