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Jean-Marie Loret was told decades ago that his father was one of the most infamous men ever to have lived: Adolf Hitler.

He even wrote a book on the subject, which sank without trace.

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Not everyone believed him, but the controversial claim has refused to die. Now, new research published by a French magazine is giving added credence to his belief.

His mother Charlotte Lobjoie described on her deathbed how the Nazi leader — then a young corporal in the Kaiser’s army — had fathered her child during a brief liaison in the First World War, Le Point reported.

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“I was helping make the hay with the other women when we saw a German soldier on the other side of the road,” she told him.

“He had some kind of cardboard and was drawing. I was delegated to approach him and ask what he was doing.”

One thing led to another, and the French teenager found herself left holding the baby, born in March 1918.

Everyone in their village of Fournes-en-Weppe, near Lille, knew Mr. Loret had a German for a father and children at school taunted him by calling him “the son of the Boche.”