French Plumber Hitler's Grandson

PARIS – A French plumber has gone public claiming to be former Nazi leader’s grandson.  56 year old Philippe Loret, who has been working as a plumber for the French Air Force for the past 35 years, says he isn’t exactly proud of the fact he is Hitler’s grandson but he is not unhappy about it either. Allegedly, Adolf Hitler had an affair with Loret’s grandmother during Word War I. Hitler, then 28, impregnated the then 16 year old and they reportedly conceived a son named, Jean-Marie Loret, Philippe’s father.

Jean-Marie Loret

 Hitler and Loret

Hitler and Loret

Philippe says that his dad use to tell him and his siblings that Adolf Hitler was their grandpa. Loret says even though it was 40 years ago, he remembers it well. He was just 16 and was sitting at the kitchen table with his 6 brothers and sisters when their dad interrupted them and ‘told us we are Adolf Hitler’s grandchildren’.
“Suddenly my dad said ‘Kids, I have got to tell you something. Your grandpa is Adolf Hitler.’ We were all dumbfounded. We didn’t know how to react,” says Loret.

Even today Philippe Loret doesn’t really know how to react to the ‘secret’. Until now, no one except for two of his friends knew he was allegedly Hitler’s grandson. Loret says he only brought it up because of recent news about Hitler having conceived a child with a french maiden, who are his father and his grandmother.
Last month, the Brit Alan Wilkes, opened up a diary belonging to his dad Leonard, who was one of the first Englishmen to set foot on the coast of Normandy on D-Day, that apparently confirms Loret’s story. On September 30th 1944, Leonard Wilkes wrote in his journal:

“An exciting day today. We visited the house where Hitler stayed during World War I when he was still a corporal. We met a women there who had a child with him and she said that Hitler’s child, a son, was now fighting in the French Army against the Germans.”

That woman was Charlotte Lobjoie, mother of Jean-Marie Loret. She encountered Hitler in the summer of 1917 in the vicinity of Lille. Jean-Marie Loret, Philippe’s father, died in 1985. Just recently, his lawyer François Gibault, provided proof that Jean-Marie Loret was indeed Hitler’s son, thus making Philippe his grandson.
The proof presented showed that Adolf Hitler and Jean-Marie Loret had the same blood type. Loret’s and Hitler’s writing are almost identical. Both Loret and Hitler had a dented chin and a square jaw line.

During his lifetime, Adolf Hitler officially never had children. He also never recognized Jean-Marie Loret as his child. Hitler's 'son' never met his father, and served as a soldier fighting against the Nazis during the Second World War. However before Loret died in 1985, he told his story to a Parisian lawyer Francois Gibault.

Loret was given up for adoption by his mother after a difficult childhood, his peers knowing that he was the son of a German soldier. Like many children fathered by German soldiers, his mother was destitute, and he was jeered at, known as "the son of the Boche." Alone and struggling for money, Lobjoie gave up her son to another couple. However years later, after Loret's mother confessed to him the truth of his parentage, Hitler's son struggled to cope.
"In order not to get depressed, I worked non-stop, never took a holiday, and had no hobbies. For twenty years I didn't even go to the cinema." he told his lawyer.

However Loret began investigating his past. He enlisted an expert in physiognomy (the way faces are aligned) and asked for advice from the Institute of Anthropology and Genetics at the University of Heidelberg. The blood type of the two men are similar, and their faces suggest famial characteristics.  Paintings by Hitler, an accomplished artist, have been found in Lobjoie's attic. A painting of the young Charlotte, signed by Hitler has even been found. Papers from the Germany and French army corroborate Loret's mothers story, showing that the Nazi dictator was serving in France at that time.

It has also been revealed that Lobjoie received packages of money from Hitler, years later. Loret died in 1985. Four years earlier, he had written the book Your Father’s Name Was Hitler. The memoir is to be republished with the new evidence that corroborates his story.