Days That Shook the World Fact or Fiction: The War of the Worlds and the Hitler Diaries (Season 3, Episode 3)
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Days That Shook the World

Fact or Fiction: The War of the Worlds and the Hitler Diaries (Season 3, Episode 3)

TV Episode | Documentary, History

Can we trust historical documents to be genuine - and how do we know that a dramatic news report is actually just an unusually skillfully acted play? About Orson Welles radio play "War of the Worlds"(1938) which led to panic around the US ...See moreCan we trust historical documents to be genuine - and how do we know that a dramatic news report is actually just an unusually skillfully acted play? About Orson Welles radio play "War of the Worlds"(1938) which led to panic around the US as people tried to escape the invading Martians that the program warned of. And the sensational publication in the German newspaper Stern in 1983 of what were claimed to be Hitler's handwritten diaries. Written by BBC See less

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