HISTORICAL NOTE: Son of Hitler?

A respected historian says yes

For the umpteenth time since the end of World War II, Europe was set abuzz last week by the claimed discovery of a living child of Adolf Hitler. While most such previous assertions have been quickly discredited, the source of the latest report was Werner Maser, 55, a respected West German historian and Hitler biographer (Hitler: Legend, Myth and Reality). Maser, who plans to include the full story of his discovery in a new edition of his book later this year, has so far declined to provide full...

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