Word: hoax
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...feature common to both magazines, however, was their extreme caution in handling their respective scoops. Stung, perhaps, by the derision it drew after it fell for a hoax in publishing the so-called Hitler Diaries two years ago, Stern downplayed its pictures of the old man in Brazil. On its cover the magazine ran its standard topless beauty, and it held its press run to the usual 1.6 million copies...
...more than a quarter-century, Nazi hunters from Israel and other countries had crisscrossed Europe and much of South America trying to track down the elusive "Angel of Death." Was the hunt finally about to end? Or would the searchers discover that they had been duped in a giant hoax, lured into an ingeniously woven web of disinformation, implying that Mengele, a man with a $3.4 million reward on his head, might still be at large...
Gerald Posner, an American lawyer who has assembled 25,000 pages of documents and interviewed 200 witnesses in South America during a four-year search for the doctor of death, explained that when he first heard of the find at Embu, he thought the story a hoax. After flying from New York City to Sao Paulo, however, Posner said, "We have to await the forensic investigation, but I'm starting to think he may be dead...
...Mengele might have found refuge in Brazil between 1961 and 1979. Even some of the most skeptical of Nazi hunters were beginning to entertain the possibility that the exhumed body might be Mengele's. Wiesenthal, who had initially said there was a 99% chance that the affair was a hoax, had lowered his estimate to 40%. "The testimony of witnesses," said the confident Tuma, "gives certainty to the fact that we are dealing with the body of Josef Mengele...
...arrest, she went through with the lie; a jury deliberated only 96 minutes before convicting him. But Crowell, now a wife and mother in New Hampshire, could not forget the sight of the innocent man weeping as he was taken away, and she finally told her minister about the hoax...