History's Greatest Hoaxes

S01E03 The Hitler Diaries

History's Greatest Hoaxes delves into the infamous Hitler Diaries, which claimed to be a collection of sixty-two volumes detailing Adolph Hitler's personal thoughts. Believing in their authenticity, Rupert Murdoch invested more than half a million dollars to publish these journals. Ultimately, this deception became one of the biggest frauds ever perpetrated against a newspaper.