History's Greatest Hoaxes

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The Hitler Diaries

Episode Synopsis

History's Greatest Hoaxes looks at the case of the Hitler Diaries which purported to be sixty-two volumes of Adolph Hitler's personal journals. Convinced of their reality, Rupert Murdoch paid over a half a million dollars to publish them. The hoax turned out to be one of the greatest scam ever done to a newspaper.

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History's Greatest Hoaxes

The Hitler Diaries

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