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...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 documentation for his claim. But he gave TIME some fascinating details about...
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...
...Maser relates that he first came across Loret's path twelve years ago, when his research took him to Wavrin. There elderly residents still recalled Charlotte, her German soldier and later her infant...
...Italy's most interesting tourist attractions this summer is a huge show of Andrea Palladio's drawings, models and projects, held in Vicenza, the city near Venice where he lived. Close by, he erected his villas: the Villa Rotonda with its four porches, the stately Barbaro at Maser, and a dozen more that are still standing...
...Crimson's finishing flurry, all three wrestlers completely dominated their opponents. Starr, 177 pounds, disposed of Craig Stone, 9-1, and Dave Scanlon, back from a knee injury at 190 pounds, crushed Doug Maser, 7-3. Heavyweight Tom Tripp was excellent as he brought the Crimson from a one-point deficit to its sweetest win of the season as he outmuscled the Chiefs' Russ Pollard...