Word: sons
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...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 the man he claims is Hitler's illegitimate son and how he was located...
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 or son...
...four, young Loret was placed in an orphanage; eventually he was adopted by a well-to-do French family. Eighteen years later, when Hitler overran France in 1940, he ordered the Gestapo to find mother and son, who had independently made their ways to Paris...
Charlotte by then had become an alcoholic, and Hitler ordered her placed in a French sanitarium. The son was taken to Gestapo headquarters at Paris' Hotel Lutetia, where he was questioned extensively as to what he knew of his father...
...adds with great pride that Jim Rosenfeld, a current member of the freshmen team, is the son of Norman Rosenfeld, who played halfback on the 1941 University of Michigan team alongside the great Tom Harmon, who won the Heisman Trophy that year...