Indian newspapers fall for baroque Nazi war criminal hoax

I mentioned that the ISKCON NA press release was getting some mileage in the Hindu press - this article points out that it might not be too hard to do:

You would think a press release about a German Nazi war criminal named Johann Bach being caught in the jungles of Goa after trying to sell a stolen 18th-century piano would be worth double-checking.

Nonetheless, the press release has been regurgitated on the front pages of the Deccan Herald and the Indian Express and inside the Telegraph, citing Perus Narkp, “the intelligence wing of the Berlin-based German Chancellor’s Core (sic)”, as the source.

Read more at Reuters.