Frank Giles obituary

Editor of the Sunday Times who was at the helm during the fake Hitler diaries scandal of 1983. Frank Giles, who has died aged 100, enjoyed a lengthy and distinguished journalistic career that culminated in the editorship of the Sunday Times. But his short tenure in the chair was dogged by disputes with his proprietor, Rupert Murdoch, and then destroyed by the Hitler diaries fiasco. Giles was only partially to blame for the paper’s publication, in April 1983, of the forged diaries. He would