New Evidence Supports Claims of Hitler's "Secret Son"
Until his death in 1985, Jean-Marie Loret believed that he was the only son of Adolf Hitler. There is now renewed attention to evidence from France and Germany that apparently lends some credence to his claim.
Loret collected information from two studies; one conducted by the University of Heidelberg in 1981 and another conducted by a handwriting analyst that showed Loret’s blood type and handwriting, respectively, were similar to the Nazi Germany dictator who died childless in 1945 at age 56.
Did Hitler Escape Germany in 1945?
New Book Presents Stunning Account of the Last Days of the Reich
Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler by Simon Dunstan and Gerrard Williams | Hardcover, 384 pages, US$24.95 Publication Date: October 4, 2011
On April 27, 1945, Adolf Hitler spoke briefly with one of the SS soldiers standing guard outside the Führerbunker, the last refuge of the inner circle of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. “Germany,” he said, “can hope for the future only if the whole world thinks I am dead.”
It seems impossible to believe that Adolf Hitler could not only have escaped Germany but, in fact, survived in relative comfort in Argentina until his death of natural causes in 1962. Simon Dunstan and Gerrard Williams’ new book Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler, which released earlier this month, presents a remarkable, linear account of a sequence of shadowy events occurring in the final days of World War II that is neatly timelined and meticulously sourced.
Is United States Embassy and U.S. government-linked advocacy group helping Czech Republic sidestep a history of Nazi collaboration?
In the United States the Czech Republic is known for two things: a distrust of vowels and a history of victimization by the Third Reich. The latter of these is weirdly reinforced at every opportunity by the Czechs themselves, despite a wartime history of collaboration only slightly more innocent than those of her neighbors. Writing in the Czech-Slovak Foreign Magazine last year, Dr. Muriel Blave of Austria’s Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History noted that the view Czechs have of their own history is guided by “instrumentalized nationalism.”
Czech society still feels like a genuine victim and as a resistant … and in no way as a co-perpetrator or silent observer who chose not to take action out of fear, selfishness or cowardice. The explanation I would advance here is that the Holocaust history and collective memory is best left unresearched so as not to endanger what we could coin the Czech “victimization narrative” of the Second World War.
