{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Fd98a4475-84d6-4e89-b524-f8b0f8d11c21","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"Episode 66: The Hitler Diaries Forgery Scam\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/d98a4475-84d6-4e89-b524-f8b0f8d11c21\"></iframe>","title":"Episode 66: The Hitler Diaries Forgery Scam","description":"Content Warning: \nDiscussion of Nazis and neo-Nazis\nShady and unethical journalistic practices\n\nIn 1983, the Stern news magazine in Western Germany, after selling serial rights to publication across the Western world, announced that Hitler's lost diaries had been discovered in the German countryside. Within a few days, Stern was totally discredited, the diaries were exposed as forgeries, and two Hitler-loving dumbasses were arrested.\n\nWe discussed what kind of dumbasses and dumbassery led up to the diaries being taken for genuine articles and shown to the world as such, exploring what mistakes publishers and reporters made to let something like this happen. And, of course, we will unveil how the scam was brought to an end!\n\nLink to the transcript: https://hybridpubscout.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/66-HitlerDiaries-Transcript.docx.pdf\n\nFind us on...\nOur website: hybridpubscout.com\nFacebook: www.facebook.com/hybridpubscout/\nTwitter: twitter.com/hybridpubscout\nInstagram: www.instagram.com/hybridpubscoutpod/\nOur newsletter: eepurl.com/gfajR9","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/89c33266-cf8d-4bd7-8268-4ffc5d9648fd/avatars-000506036508-o7577i-original.jpg"}