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Auschwitz Faker Confesses
An historian who sparked a world-wide war crimes investigation after claiming to have found a cache of secret SS documents buried at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz has confessed it was just a hoax to plug his new book.
Shamed Mieczyslaw Boyko had claimed he'd found three crates of previously undiscovered official papers buried underneath the German concentration camp and triggered a massive hunt for two Germans he claimed to have been working for.
Virtually no German military staff records were ever found at Auschwitz and were believed to have been destroyed by the Nazis as Allied forces took Poland during the final months of World War II.
Now Boyko has confessed he dreamed up the stunt to promote his latest work.
"It was part of plan to promote a new book," he told local media after police called off the search.
Austrian Times
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Victor Woldanowski wrote on 24. 01. 2012 from UK about "Auschwitz Faker Confesses..."
Please note that there is not and never was a "Polish concentration camp at Auschwitz. The correct description is as set out by UNESCO, "The Auschwitz-Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945)." Please amend your article accordingly.
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