12. The Hitler Diaries

On the 22nd of April in 1983, a German magazine named Stern published an article claiming that the discovery of Hitler’s personal diaries had been recovered from a plane crash. The article claimed that the plane was from Operation Seraglio which was a removal project to move the important documents to Southern Germany. Less than two weeks after the publishing of the article, forensics discovered that the diaries were forged. Many were arrested, fined, and lost jobs over the entire incident.