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versie: 17 december 2017 - NIOD-begin | beginpagina Droog A short history 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 Whilst researching the so called 'Hitler poems' they learned a lot about the Hitler artefacts forgery and auctioning industry. 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. Jaap van den Born, e-mail: j.vandenborn@online.nl Notes DROOG- tijdschrift voor diepgravende onderzoeks-journalistiek. Droog, onafhankelijk en ter zake. Over zaken uit heden en verleden die er toe doen of deden. Zaken die meer aandacht vragen dan in een artikel van een of twee papieren pagina’s gegeven kan worden.
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