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Larry is right that the story seems to have been around for decades. Legolas Send a noteboard - 19/02/2012 04:40:50 PM
I would also like to see the children get the rights to Mein Kampf and issue a good critical edition for historians. Fuck the Bavarian government and its stupid intransigence.

so I'm not sure why the Telegraph comes up with it just now.

I thought they were going to publish a good critical edition when the copyright lapsed in a year or two? At least, I vaguely recall having read something of the sort... *checks Wikipedia* Oh, but the Bavarian government is trying to prevent that. Right.
Do you think the Belgian article is at all compelling?

I don't know, I have a hard time taking investigative journalism from a tabloid seriously. Het Laatste Nieuws has a few authoritative political commentators, and no doubt some serious journalists in other domains as well, but still is mostly known for being sensationalist and a tabloid.

As for the actual content of the article (I'm not entirely sure how many details either Larry or you understand of it), it sounds credible enough, even if I find saliva on old stamps a somewhat risky method of DNA testing (how on earth can you be sure it was Loret himself who licked the stamp? Maybe they had so many letters as to make the likelihood of it being anyone else very unlikely, but still...).

Wikipedia mentions the University of Heidelberg did a DNA test which was inconclusive, neither confirming Loret's claim nor ruling it out, but of course back then DNA testing wasn't very advanced yet.
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Larry is right that the story seems to have been around for decades. - 19/02/2012 04:40:50 PM 620 Views
I saw it in the references part of that Wiki article - 19/02/2012 09:35:25 PM 596 Views
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