On April 1, 1983 — appropriately, All Fools' Day — the distinguished British historian Hugh Trevor-Roper was telephoned at his country home in Scotland by Colin Webb, assistant editor of The Times newspaper.Seventy-year-old Trevor-Roper was an independent national director of the Rupert Murdoch-owned Times Newspapers and this call concerned a discovery of great historical significance.In strict confidence, Webb told him the German current affairs magazine Stern had discovered the private diaries of Adolf Hitler. A former Regius Professor of History at Oxford and now Master of Peterhouse, , Trevor-Roper was immediately sceptical.
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