Forbidden History presents History's Greatest Hoaxes: The Hitler Diaries (Extended) In this episode, we take a deeper dive into the case of the Hitler Diaries which purported to be sixty-two volumes of Adolf 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 case of fraud ever done to a newspaper. Cast List: Gerd Heidemann: Former Reporter, Die Stern Guy Walters - Author & Historian Dr. Linda Papadopoulos: Author & Psychologist Alex Boese: Author, The World's Greatest Hoaxes Marcus Brigstocke: Author & Comedian Magnus Linklater: Former News Editor, The Sunday Times Gerhard Klussmeier: Author, The True Face of Konrad Kujau Peter Hoffman: Museum of Contemporary History, Bonn Eric Meyers: Narrator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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