The term "fake news," first used to describe news stories that
contained deliberately false information, is today thrown around as a
way to discredit any news coverage people don't like. Fake news has been
around for hundreds of years, but the term picked up steam over the past year in a heated political climate where people cast doubt on any story that doesn't agree with them.But the Theresienstadt camp—a hybrid Jewish ghetto–Nazi labor camp in what is today the Czech Republic—was the ultimate fake news story of 1944 and shows just how much the term has changed. Because while many of the stories accused of being "fake news" in 2017 are based on facts, Nazi propaganda was deliberate deception and pure theater.
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