Hitler’s Secret Diaries: The Hoax With a Stern Face

Milli Vanilli, the pop duo from Germany and MTV sensation of the late ‘80s, did not invent the art of the hoax. Once Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan were exposed as mere lip-syncers, their boat of fame was sunk. But their act also wasn’t the most consequential ship of fools to sail the waters of twentieth-century hoaxes.