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Jaap van den Born & Bart FM Droog


Researchers of Hitler forgeries


A short history
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A short history

Jaap van den Born (1951) and Bart FM Droog (1966), two Dutch investigative journalists and poets, investigated in 2016 and 2017 poetry, allegedly written by Adolf Hitler and other tyrants. They did so after the publication of a book called Flowers of evil. Poetry by dictators by Dutch author Paul Damen. It received worldwide attention.¹

Van den Born and Droog however, found out  that it consisted mainly of concoctions and fabrications, and was built on plagiarism. Their articles on this fraudulent book were praised by the Dutch newspapers Dagblad van het Noorden and NRC Handelsblad and the Belgian De Standaard.²

One year before Droog researched a case of plagiarism in the UK. The Guardian and The Independent reported on this investigation, which caused the winner of the Stephen Spender Prize 2015 to withdraw his poems and return the prize money.³

Whilst researching the so called 'Hitler poems' they learned a lot about the Hitler artefacts forgery and auctioning industry.

So when the Dutch Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD) claimed on November 25 2017 to possess a 'real' Hitler aquarel and Van den Born and Droog read the NIOD arguments, it set off all alarm bells.

In a couple of days they found out that there was absolutely no proof for this claim  and that the NIOD-research into this aquarel was based almost entirely on works and words by Prof Dr. August Priesack (1908-ca. 1993), one of the persons who stood at the cradle of the forged Hitler diaries in 1983.

The late Dr Priesack was also co author of Adolf Hitler. The unknown artist  (1984), a catalogue of hundreds of paintings and drawings 'by' the nazi dictator. A book consisting mainly of forgeries. A fact worldwide known since 2002, yet unknown by NIOD.

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Contact

Jaap van den Born, e-mail: j.vandenborn@online.nl
http://www.nederlandsepoezie.org/dichters/b/born.html
Bart FM Droog, e-mail: droog@epibreren.com
http://www.nederlandsepoezie.org/dichters/d/droog.html

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Notes

¹ An interview with the author appeared first in Dutch on Vice.com. The interview was also published in English, German Polish, Portuguese, Serbian-Croatioan and Spanish translations. See:
http://www.bartfmdroog.com/droog/dd/journalistiek.html#vice

² Jaap van den Born & Bart FM Droog. Bloemen van het kwaad. Of: hoe Hitler de Nederlandse poëzie werd binnengemarcheerd. Droog Magazine, 28-02-2017.
http://www.bartfmdroog.com/droog/dd/index.html
Jaap van den Born & Bart FM Droog. Bloemen van het bedrog. De Reactor, 22 -4-2017.

http://www.dereactor.org/home/detail/bloemen_van_het_bedrog/
Joep van Ruiten. 'Gedichten ten onrechte aan Hitler toegeschreven'. Dagblad van het Noorden, 06-02-2017.
http://www.dvhn.nl/cultuur/%E2%80%98Gedichten-ten-onrechte-toegeschreven-aan-Hitler%E2%80%99-21979798.html
Lodewijk Dros. Dichter Menno Wigman trekt essay terug. Trouw, 08-02-2017.
https://beta.trouw.nl/cultuur/dichter-menno-wigman-trekt-essay-terug~a6cc10a4/
Arjen Fortuin. Wat dichters met dictators moeten doen. NRC Handelsblad, 10-02-2017.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2017/02/10/wat-dichters-met-dictators-moeten-doen-6629913-a1545420
Geert Sels. Was getekend: Hitler. Of toch niet? De Standaard, 11-02-2017.
http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20170210_02725092


³ Bart FM Droog & Martin Cobbler. Blatant plagiarism in Stephen Spender Prize 2015. NPE Nieuwsblog, 09-12-2015.
http://nederlandsepoezie.eu/?p=2991
Pieter van Os. Britse Koplandvertaler bekend plagiaat. NRC Handelsblad, 11-12-2015.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2015/12/11/britse-koplandvertaler-bekent-plagiaat-a1466537
Alison Flood. Poet returns Stephen Spender prize after accusations of plagiarism. The Guardian, 17-12-2015.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/17/poet-returns-stephen-spender-prize-after-accusations-of-plagiarism
Nick Clark. Poet Allen Prowle returns pretigious award amid plagiarism allegations. Independent, 17-12-2015.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/poet-allen-prowle-returns-prestigious-award-amid-plagiarism-allegations-a6777721.html

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