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According to Maser, the son, Jean Marie Loret, is an unemployed Frenchman born in 1918 after an 18-month liaison between Hitler and a French peasant girl named Charlotte. At the time, Hitler was a corporal in a World War I Bavarian infantry regiment stationed in the small French village of Wavrin. Hitler did not learn of the birth until after he was taken to a military hospital in Germany suffering from the effects of having been gassed on the front lines; apparently, Hitler made no attempt then to establish contact with mother...
After locating Loret, says Maser, a long search into the Frenchman's past convinced him that Loret was indeed Hitler's son. "The resemblance between Loret and Hitler is striking," says Maser...
...needed--gold, iron ore, bauzite, diamonds, oil and many others; Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Portugal all needed a place in the sun, hence the partition of Africa. They created the worst frontiers or boundaries in Africa. Alien governments were established. The French sought to make the African and Frenchman by establishing a policy of assimilation and comprimise. The British whose only motive was that of exploitation introduced foreign companies that established monopolies. Slavery became a lucrative enterprise. Behind the facade of colonialism was the Christian religion. As colonialism prospered so did the trading companies and religion. But the prosperity...
...perfectly timed and performed in Le Carré's works; the choreographer does indeed know his nation and its people. Nevertheless, the thoroughly English writer relies a bit too heavily on foreign literary sources. Turgenev is a longtime enthusiasm, and Balzac is a novelist toward whom he is idolatrous. The Frenchman, insists Le Carré, is unparalleled for "sheer narrative thrust: everything has a material connection. There's no style, just fact, fact, fact." He has a special affection for an imagined cast: "I can see myself, like Balzac, inquiring after them on my deathbed." Such admiration can be as seductive?...
Carter's enthusiasm for Great Britain's James Callaghan is that of one pol for another. His regard for France's Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is rooted in the Frenchman's intellect. Egypt's Anwar Sadat made sense to Carter. "I wouldn't mind spending a weekend fishing with him," said Carter about Canada's Pierre Elliott Trudeau. While he was in London, the President met with the leaders of 16 nations from Luxembourg to Greece. He was armed with personal fact sheets and psychological profiles of each...