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versie: 28 december 2017 - NIOD | beginpagina Droog Na ruim vier weken intensief onderzoek direct ná de NIOD claim d.d. 25 november 2017 komen we tot onderstaande conclusies en aanbevelingen.
2. Bij het NIOD hadden bij aanwerving en eerste bestudering van het aan Hitler toegeschreven aquarel álle alarmbellen moeten gaan rinkelen. 3. NIOD had moeten weten dat de echtheid nooit bewezen kan worden
Om preciezer te zijn: het 'Bayerische Hauptstaatsarchiv' kreeg in juli 2013 zes aan Hitler toegeschreven werken in het bezit. Het echtheidsonderzoek vond plaats in de tweede helft van 2013. De werken berusten nog steeds bij het Hauptstaatsarchiv, in de verzameling 'Varia', zo berichtte ons Dr. Thomas Paringer, Archiefdirecteur, op 12 december 2017. 4. Nader onderzoek naar NIOD-aquarel is zinloos
Dat verdere onderzoek hebben we inmiddels zelf gedaan, door aan échte kunstexperts de authenticatievraag voor te leggen. Hun antwoorden zijn eensluidend: verder onderzoek aan het NIOD-aquarel zal nooit kunnen aantonen dat het om een echte Hitler gaat. Nader onderzoek bij NIOD geboden Uit ons onderzoek is gebleken dat de NIOD bij het onderzoek naar het aan Hitler toegeschreven aquarel zich vooral heeft laten leiden door één volstrekt onbetrouwbare bron, te weten:
Herman Weiss (1932-2015), onderzoeker bij het Institut für Zeitgeschichte (de Duitse zusterorganisatie van het NIOD), bij een echtheidsonderzoek naar vermeende Hitlers in 1984(!) over dit werk: Onze adviezen
Betrouwbare boeken over Hitler staan vermeld op:
After more than four weeks of intensive research following the NIOD claim of November 25, 2017 we come to the following conclusions and recommendations. 1. NIOD press release was premature After we expressed our serious doubts, the NIOD hid behind the words 'for now' and 'almost certainly'. The NIOD should have realized that: to begin English text | to top of page 2. NIOD deaf for alarm bells 2.1 The origin story is completely unclear. Six clear alarm bells, all were ignored. As a result, the 'months-long authentication process' was built on quicksand: the assumption that it was an' authentic 'Hitler' was leading and ensured tunnel vision. The most logical investigation - excluding that the work is a forgery - did not take place. to begin English text | to top of page 3. NIOD should have known that the authenticity can never be substantiated As far as we know only one scientific authenticity investigation of alleged Hitler paintings ever took place. That happened in Munich, autumn 2013. Art historians and forensic experts examined a number of alleged Hitler paintings. After a few weeks of thorough research, it was concluded that the authenticity could not be established, so the works had to be labeled as forgeries. That is the only correct scientific conclusion after such a research, not that it is 'almost certainly' real. to begin English text | to top of page 4. Further research into NIOD watercolor is pointless After we presented our criticism of the NIOD-resaearch to the NIOD, and wrote that further research at the NIOD-watercolor would be useless, since it would never be possible to proof that the NIOD-aquarel is a real Hitler, NIOD director Frank van Vree replied on December 4, 2017 this:
We have already done so by presenting the authentication question to real art experts. Their answers are unanimous: further research at the NIOD watercolor will never be able to prove that the NIOD aquarel is a real Hitler. The necessary expertise in the field of authenticity research of artwork is missing at all 'friendly institutions' of the NIOD and at the NIOD itself. Holocaust research is is something completely else than the technical research of a watercolor. We strongly advise against NIOD research into this manifest forgery. to begin English text | to top of page 5. Questions about expertise NIOD
Herman Weiss (1932-2015), researcher at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte (the German sister organization of the NIOD), wrote in an authentication investigation of alleged Hitlers in 1984 (!) about this book: "This catalog (...) not only contains the Hitler counterfeits of Konrad Kujau, which have meanwhile become known, but can also only be used after critical scrutiny of the information provided because of its further inaccuracies and errors." The German-Austrian historian Brigitte Hamann (1940-2016) reported in her book Hitlers Wien (1996; English edition titled Hitler's Vienna, 1999) that Price's book also contains many forgeries by Reinhold Hanisch. The American historian Frederic Spotts (1930) stated in his book Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics (2002) that the book of Prive consists for two-thirds of forgeries. Price's co-authors Peter Jahn and August Priesack have been known for many years as authentication certificate swindlers. They issued certficates of authenticity to clearly forged 'Hitlers'. All this was unknown at the NIOD. How could that happen? to begin English text | to top of page 1. It would be advisable for the Institute to rectify the premature press release. Worldwide. 2. NIOD should investigate how and why this canard happened, in order to prevent similar blunders in the future. 3. NIOD should reserve one bookcase in the Institute's library for all books that should definitely not be used as a source for future research.
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