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May 10, 2023:

Free downloadable e-books focusing on the most infamous swindlers involved in the Hitler forgery industry
February 4, 2023:
The 'Nazi treasure' at Ommeren - the true story

Or: how the world press parroted an irresponsible publicity stunt by the Dutch National Archives.
December 2o, 2022:
De bizarre familieclaims van Arthur Graaff

Of: hoe de zelfbenoemde "bekendste antifascist van Nederland" namen van oorlogsslachtoffers, verzetshelden en veteranen misbruikt.
November 22, 2022:
The Betrayal of Anne Frank canard part 8

The Netherlands Press Council reprimands NRC, one of the country's leading newspapers, for its coverage of the book.
Breaking news:
October 27, 2022: The Channel 4 Hitler hoax

Or: how Channel 4 and Jimmy Carr deceived the world with false claims.
October 15, 2022: A fake Hitler watercolour for $250,000

Or: how a Berliner swindler tried to sell an obvious fake work to one of the few Hitler art specialists of the world.
July 26, 2022: Millions of dollars for a fake Hitler watch?

The US based Alexander Historical Auctions strikes again. And the world press promotes the swindle again.
May 18, 2022: Court acquits journalist Droog Magazine and orders author of anti-Semitic book Hitler's diamonds to pay all legal costs

Is this the final chapter of an insane story? Dutch publisher co-author of controversial work?
March 29, 2022: Despite devastating report HarperCollins continues the sale of the contested book.

Another episode in The Betrayal of Anne Frank. A 21st century canard-story.
March 23, 2022: After deadly report the Dutch publisher pulls the Anne Frank betrayal book.

Immediately after the publication of a higly critical report by Dutch historians, the Dutch publisher of 'The Betrayal of Anne Frank' pulled the book from stores. Another episode in The Betrayal of Anne Frank. A 21st century canard-story.
February 19, 2022: The canard of The Betrayal of Anne Frank (2): the show must go on.

Bitter row between Cold Case Team and Dutch publisher - Global criticism is mounting - Japanese translation published - Publication German version postponed - Statements by HarperCollins and Rosemary Sullivan.
February 17, 2022: What else is wrong with the revelations about Anne Frank's alleged traitor.

Special report by Sven Felix Kellerhoff of Welt.
February 7, 2022: The Betrayal of Anne Frank
A 21st century canard. Innocent man accused in order to create bestseller and mockumentary tv series.
November 17, 2021: A historic Commemoriation Day at German military cemetery Ysselsteyn (NL)

For the first time in 75 years a Jewish clergyman spoke during the ceremonies in the Netherlands at Volkstrauertag, the German commemoration day.
November 4, 2021: photo reportage of the Ciney Militairia Fair (October 31, Ciney, Belgium)

The largest militaria fair in Europe, 600 dealers, 12,000 visitors.
October 18, 2021: Overview of WW2 places of remembrance, cemeteries and musea in the Netherlands (in Dutch).

Estimated number of visitors (in 2019, before the covid lockdowns): almost 3.4 million.
September 19, 2021: The Theft of the Lonely Funeral

A true crime horror story from the Netherlands.
September 7, 2021: The radicalisation of Arthur Graaff.

Again charges filed against self declared Dutch "anti-fascist".
September 1, 2021: An astonishing tv broadcast. Netherlands tv programme depicts militaria fair in a very unfair way.

Fair organisation sharply condemns fascism, nazism, racism as well as the trade in Holocaust artefacts.
August 27, 2021: already 49 fake Hitlers surfaced at auction houses in 2021, and counting.  Another episode in the continuing Hitler Forgery Industry story.
June 17, 2021: Goods news from Berlin: Documentation 'Hitler how could it happen' can be visited again, 365 days a year.

In the Berlin Story Bunker, Berlin-Kreuzberg

June 5, 2021: People in hiding murdered by the resistance in the Netherlands during World War Two: more than 90% of them were Jews. Another episode in the Forgotten War Victims series.

May 5, 2021: Where is Hitler? The fake search for a lost Führer. A book by Tim Trachet. Review. Another episode in the continuing Hitler Forgery Industry story.

March 31, 2021: Belgian Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History went shopping at Hermann Historica and spent tax payers' money at fake Nazi uniform
March 3, 2021: review of Hitlers Vater / Hitler's father.

Not quite so spectacular as the publisher and the international news media claim.
February 8, 2021: 'Hitler's' toilet seat and lock of hair at US auction. The world press is going berserk - but are these items authentic? Update: toilet seat sold for $15,000 with no solid evidence for its authenticity.

The fact that the same auction house sold in 2017 a fake Hitler telephone for $243,000 doesn't seem to worry the media. Another strange episode in the history of the Hitler Forgery Industry.
The Hitler-the-baby hoax, 1933
It was raining fake Hitlers in 2020, 152 in total (and counting); already 17  fakes spotted in 2021.

See also  The Hitler forgery industry (1925-2020)
International upheaval about upcoming Hitler auction in Grasbrunn (Bavaria, Germany), October 23, 2020.

But nobody seems to realize the disputed works (manuscripts, a postcard and sketches) offered by the Bavarian auction house Hermann Historica are probably forgeries.
German auction house is flooding the market with fake Hitlers and Eva Brauns via US diversion.

Sixty-seven fakes- including the Eva Braun portrait on the right - on September 21, 2020 auction. More than two-hundred to come.
Update: 'Hitlers' fail to sell.
De ondergang van Hitlers diamanten

Nieuws: Boek definitief uit de handel - lees het vanavond bij The Post Online en Droog Magazine.
Hitler's diamonds - anti-Semitic gobbledygook book

Sheer lunacy and blatant anti-Semitism in recently published book from the Netherlands.
Nederlandse versie: Het boek 'Hitlers diamanten' is antisemitisch geraaskal op The Post Online.
Update 01-09-2020: Bol.com haalt antisemitisch boek 'Hitlers diamanten' uit assortiment (TPO).
De Volkskrant en Ad van Liempt - een analyse

Over de innige banden tussen de Volkskrant, Ad van Liempt en Sander van Walsum.
Definitief oordeel RUG proefschrift van Ad van Liempt



"Onzorgvuldigheden" moeten worden hersteld.
The "Hitlers" from Belgium: fake works, fake sons

New light on the "Huy Hitlers" - allegedly discovered in 1985 in a sealed box on a dusty attic in Belgium and offered in 1992 for sale to Yad Vashem - for one million guilders. In 2006 they were sold in England, for £118,000.
Yet another top hat attributed to Adolf Hitler for sale

An American auction house hopes to sell a top hat and a frock coat, both allegedly once owned by Hitler, for more than 80,000 US dollars. The authenticity of this set is however highly questionable.
The Thies 'Hitlers' - a hoard of 47 fakes. 300 more to come

German auction house is selling fake Hitlers originating from Konrad Kujau's agent via its US branch

NSF-verzetsmonument Hilversum. Acht namen. Vier namen ontbreken

Droog Magazine ontdekt dat van de twaalf door verzetsactiviteiten omgekomen Nederlandsche Seintoestellen Fabriek-medewerkers maar acht op het monument vermeld staan. Stichting De Hof, beheerder van dit oorlogsmonument, weigert de ontbrekende namen toe te voegen.

Arthur Graaff – Zelfbenoemd “VN-rapporteur” en grafschenner


© John Spijkerman / De Stadsbron. Texts: quotes from the former spokesperson of AFVN.

Or: how the last remnant of stalinism manifestates itself in the Netherlands
'Hitler' artworks on auction in Kent. Berlin museum alerts UK police. Update: 'Hitlers' withdrawn

Another chapter in the ongoing reporting on the Nazi militaria forgery industry
Hitler the composer of an opera? Another fairy tale by August Kubizek and Theory based on fake Hitler painting

The Museum Niederösterreich in St. Pölten, Austria, shows sheet music allegedly composed by Hitler. Yet there's no evidence at all Hitler ever composed anything. 
Steunfonds beroep in zaak Droog versus Van Liempt/RuG

Het aanvankelijk oordeel van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen betreffende de zaak Ad van Liempt is volgens ons een vrijbrief voor wetenschapsfraude. Daarom wordt in beroep gegaan. Tijdens de procedure mogen we niets nieuws over de zaak publiceren. Dat betekent voor ons inkomstenderving. Vandaar dat we een beroep doen op het publiek, middels het Steunfonds.
Het vuurwerkramprapport / The fireworks disaster report

Paul van Buitenen reveals 20 years after the disaster the truth about the disaster and the official cover up. With every day (starting January 10, 2020) new revelations.
The Hitler forgery industry (2019)



The unsettling business of selling fakes, forgeries and other concoctions attributed to Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and other Nazis. With a summary of the 2019 press reports about it.

Jaap van den Born & Bart FM Droog, 2019; collage based on photo by Carrie Yuan
 De zaak Ad van Liempt / The Ad van Liempt Affair


Of: hoe het oeuvre van een Nederlands tv-maker en schrijver stoelt op plagiaat, bedrog en onbenul. Or: how the oeuvre of a Dutch television maker/author is based on plagiariasm, deceit and stupidity.
Er was áltijd ruzie / They were always quarreling

Over dilettanten en nieuwkomers in de Nederlandse politiek van de twintigste en eenentwintigste eeuw. Opvallend zijn vooral de overenkomsten in de juridische structuren tussen de politieke nieuwkomer uit 1931 (NSB) en die uit 2005 (PVV).

On dilettantes and political newcomers in Dutch politics of the twentieth and the twenty-first century. In particular the similarity in the legal structure between the two political newcomers from 1931 (National Socialist Movement) and from 2005 (Party for Freedom) is striking.

Dr. Willem Huberts, 2018

J'accuse... Justitie

 Aanklacht tegen Justitie vanwege jarenlang geblunder vóór, tijdens en na de Vuurwerkramp Enschede (2000).
Paul van Buitenen, 03-12-2018
De 431 vergeten Nederlandse oorlogsslachtoffers
1 september 1939 - 9 mei 1940
Bart FM Droog, The Post Online / Droog Magazine, 17-10-2018
Battle of France 1940 - de slachtoffers
Militaire en burgerslachtoffers van de oorlogshandelingen mei-juni 1940 in België, Duitsland, Frankrijk, Luxemburg en Nederland (= The Battle of France)
Droog, 03-05-2018
Anne Frank and Margot Frank's letters to America
backgrounds and sources to:
Zo maakt het AD non- en nepnieuws rond Anne Franks brieven
Krant warmt 30 jaar oud nieuws op met sensationeel artikel
The Post Online, 26-04-2018
'Plagiarists never do it once'
Paul Damen opnieuw betrapt
Droog, 2018
 Nieuws over Hitlers dood?
Advertorial als nieuws verkocht
Van den Born & Droog, 2017-2018
The Dutch Jack the Ripper, Hendrik de Jong
Serial killer and con artist who was definitely not the English Ripper Bondeson & Droog, 2018 - article in Ripperologist # 159
De NIOD-canard
Over het Hitlervervalsingencircuit
Van den Born & Droog, 2017-2018
Plagiaat in woord en beeld
Met voorbeelden
Droog, 2017
(Nog steeds) tegendraads
Memoires van een criminoloog
Harrie Timmerman, 2018 (herziene druk) 		Levensdelicten NL
1899-1920 (work in progresss)
Droog, 2017-2018
Hoe Hitler de Nederlandse poëzie werd binnengemarcheerd
Over het bedrog in Bloemen van het kwaad. Gedichten van dictators
Van den Born & Droog, 2016-2017
Dickensiaanse toestanden in weeshuis
Schrijnende misstanden in Neerbosch, 1893-1899
Droog, 2017
De zaak WNC
Moord in Groningen, 1990
Droog, 2016 		Het Kopland-plagiaat
Vertaalde gedichten geplagieerd
Droog, 2015
PEN Nederland
Angsthazerij bij schrijversclub
De Waard & Droog, 2015 		Dossier de Contrabas
Zwendel in de letteren
Droog, 2013-2017
RAF-verliezen mei-juni 1940
Ruim 1200 doden, wereldwijd
Droog, 2007-2009 		De Katwijkse Gekkenlogger
Dodelijke godsdienstwaan (1915)
Droog, 2015
Letterenfonds (1965-2015)
Een reconstructie
Droog, 2015 		In naam van Oranje...
Een tragisch verhaal (1872)
Droog, 2015
Engelse en Nederlandse vertalingen van Duitse rangen

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Droog Magazine biedt ruimte voor gedegen en onafhankelijk journalistiek onderzoek. Vooral op literair en historisch vlak - maar ook voor alle andere maatschappelijk relevante gebieden.

Hoofdredacteur: Bart FM Droog
Redacteur: Jaap van den Born
Medewerkers: Harrie Timmerman, Elly de Waard

Contact: droog@epibreren.com

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