Hoaxes in Germany

series of sixty volumes of journals purportedly by Adolf Hitler, but forged by Konrad Kujau

popular satire about the city of Bielefeld

pseudonymous author

German musician and actor

fictional Nazi technological warfare device

hoax fossils

Apopudobalia (; ἀπο- + ποδός + ball + -ία) is a fictional sport that was the subject of a famous fictitious entry by the German ancient historian Mischa Meier in Der neue Pauly Enzyklopaedie der Antike, edited by H. Cancik and H. Schneider, vol. 1 (Stuttgart, 1996, ), which gives a description of an ancient Greco-Roman sport that anticipates modern soccer. The article goes on to cite suitably sparse documentation for the nonexistent sport (this includes a Festschrift to one M. Sammer), and to assert that a Roman form of the game enjoyed a certain popularity amongst the Roman legions, and conse