Hoaxes have been around for centuries, and as crazy as some of them are, people still believe them. Did you fall for any of these 13 hoaxes that duped the world?
Hitler Diaries, a 60-volume set of diaries, attributed to Adolf Hitler, at the center of one of the greatest hoaxes of modern times. The diaries had actually been produced between 1981–83 by forger Konrad Kujau, who posed as a Stuttgart antiques dealer, Herr Fischer, and who had previously forged and sold paintings also purportedly by Hitler. Believing the diaries were authentic rescued from a plane that had crashed in East Germany at the end of the war the West German magazine Stern had bought the volumes for some $3.7 million in 1983 and then sold serial rights to various news outlets, including
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