Larry is right that the story seems to have been around for decades.
Legolas Send a noteboard - 19/02/2012 04:40:50 PM
I would also like to see the children get the rights to Mein Kampf and issue a good critical edition for historians. Fuck the Bavarian government and its stupid intransigence.
so I'm not sure why the Telegraph comes up with it just now.
I thought they were going to publish a good critical edition when the copyright lapsed in a year or two? At least, I vaguely recall having read something of the sort... *checks Wikipedia* Oh, but the Bavarian government is trying to prevent that. Right.
Do you think the Belgian article is at all compelling?
I don't know, I have a hard time taking investigative journalism from a tabloid seriously. Het Laatste Nieuws has a few authoritative political commentators, and no doubt some serious journalists in other domains as well, but still is mostly known for being sensationalist and a tabloid.
As for the actual content of the article (I'm not entirely sure how many details either Larry or you understand of it), it sounds credible enough, even if I find saliva on old stamps a somewhat risky method of DNA testing (how on earth can you be sure it was Loret himself who licked the stamp? Maybe they had so many letters as to make the likelihood of it being anyone else very unlikely, but still...).
Wikipedia mentions the University of Heidelberg did a DNA test which was inconclusive, neither confirming Loret's claim nor ruling it out, but of course back then DNA testing wasn't very advanced yet.
Hitler Had Son with French Teen
- 19/02/2012 07:15:10 AM
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Kind of horrible that his mother let him fight the nazis without knowing. *NM*
- 19/02/2012 07:27:39 AM
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I doubt telling him during the war could have improved that experience for him in any way.
- 19/02/2012 07:44:06 AM
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Still, letting him for all intents and purposes fight a war against his dad? *NM*
- 19/02/2012 07:46:53 AM
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Worked out for Luke okay. *NM*
- 19/02/2012 08:58:20 AM
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Nonsense. He could be ruling the galaxy with an iron fist at Vaders side. *NM*
- 19/02/2012 08:59:07 AM
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I see you're still posting sensationalist bullshit without seeing if it's been debunked
- 19/02/2012 08:33:36 AM
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I'm intrigued by your choice of source to link to.
- 19/02/2012 10:02:11 AM
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Not that the Telegraph is a paragon of unbiased journalism, but I tend to believe them.
- 19/02/2012 04:20:05 PM
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Larry is right that the story seems to have been around for decades.
- 19/02/2012 04:40:50 PM
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Either way, although Joel does frequently post rants, reposting a Telegraph article is hardly that.
- 19/02/2012 05:31:23 PM
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Do not shoot the messenger.
- 19/02/2012 06:18:57 PM
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Y chromosome studies reveal paternal descent.
- 19/02/2012 09:42:37 PM
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I see; it discredits the claim Hitlers grandfather was a random Jew rather than Alois.
- 19/02/2012 11:33:58 PM
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How dare that peasant Joel share an article in the current news cycle without researching it fully!
- 20/02/2012 01:26:53 AM
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No wonder this place is dead when this is the nice reaction from people when they post stuff...
- 20/02/2012 06:43:02 AM
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