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German Woman Sentenced for Selling Fakes of Fakes

By Theunis BatesSep 9th 2010 – 2:49PM
Norbert Millauer, AP

Norbert Millauer, AP

(Sept. 9) -- So you've spent $3,000 on what you thought was an authentic forgery by a master forger, only to find out that the forgery you bought was itself a forgery. What do you do next? You take the forgery forger to court, of course. Dresden, Germany, resident Petra Kujau, 51, was fined $380,000 this week and given a...

Background on konrad kujau

Konrad Paul Kujau (born 27 June 1938 in Löbau, Germany; died 12 September 2000 in Stuttgart, Germany) was an illustrator and forger who became famous in 1983 as the creator of the so-called Hitler Diaries, for which he received DM 2.5 million from a person who in turn sold it for DM 9.3 million to the magazine Stern.

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