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  • 2019-10-07 (xsd:date)
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  • This Is Not Angela Merkel With Adolf Hitler – Truth or Fiction? (en)
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  • This Is Not Angela Merkel With Adolf Hitler Claim A photograph shows a very young Angela Merkel with Adolf Hitler. Rating Not True Like this fact check? Reporting On September 26 2019, a since-suspended Twitter account (@4truthbombs) shared an image purporting to show a very young Angela Merkel with a previous, infamous chancellor — Adolf Hitler: The disinformation attempt appeared not long after Merkel spoke at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in September 2019: Almost all opening speakers are #women Heads of State at #ClimateActionSummit now #AngelaMerkel says – with #DonaldTrump sitting opposite – that #climatechange is men-made, that we as industrizlized nations are responsible and need to take responsibilty for damage in South #SDG13 pic.twitter.com/z5TzZszzqn — WECF international (@WECF_INT) September 23, 2019 The image was not new; it featured heavily in QAnon conspiracy theories in early and mid-2018, as well: Can this be TRUE? Angela Merkel Is The Daughter of Hitler And Hitler Was a Rothschild #Q #QAnon https://t.co/mYz7xEbzIu pic.twitter.com/wPPTG4hSBq Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die — WATCHMAN!! Kevin Roy🇺🇸🇺🇸 @kroy88 (@kroy88) June 17, 2018 That’s right folks. The shameless Deep State propped up Hitler’s daughter, Angela Merkel Hitler, as the Chancellor of Germany. #qanon pic.twitter.com/xNyIrr3N4u — Covid=Flu (renamed) | LBF (@LBF777) March 10, 2018 Sometimes the image appeared alone (with appended comment such as now it’s making sense!), and other times it was in a larger , more detailed context with screenshots from 4Chan and 8Chan: https://twitter.com/GoboMontaco/status/972959893866143745 https://twitter.com/2runtherace/status/972607189994147840 Despite the claim’s staying power, it is extremely simple to disprove — as has been noted in concurrent tweets each time it spreads: This thread is genuine gold, people. Starts off claiming this is a picture of Hitler and Merkel together, when told this is chronologically impossible, her mate pops up to suggest Merkel is Hitler’s clone and she incorporates that without missing a beat. pic.twitter.com/3EgRQhZSbQ — . (@twlldun) June 24, 2018 Here’s an example of how MAGA-types put fake facts into circulation as though they are true & repeat them until they’re unquestioningly accepted. Trump is doing this with the Bidens & has been doing it all along. The truth here? Angela Merkel was born 9 years after Hitler died. pic.twitter.com/Cd3aAz3XuS — Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) October 6, 2019 Exacerbating the issue is the fact that Google Image Search automatically suggested Merkel Hitler or Angela Merkel with Hitler as a possible related search: We were unable to find the specific photograph among archival images of Hitler with small children (and there are many.) However, a similar image showing what appears to be the same child and date stamped 1937 appeared in stock photograph archives of the Nazi leader attempting to use children to soften his image. The photograph was captioned: Adolf Hitler talking with a girl, historical photo circa 1937 Adolf Hitler spricht mit einem Mädchen, historische Aufnahme, ca. 1937 It is not clear whether @4truthbombs was suspended over the mislabeled image purporting to show Angela Merkel with Adolf Hitler or for some other reason, but the disinformation has long been in circulation, and did not originate with that particular account. Claims like it rely on readers’ lack of inclination to fact-check basic aspects of the claim, as well as hopes that people would be swayed by a mislabeled photograph. As noted repeatedly in response tweets, Chancellor Angela Merkel was born in July 1954. Adolf Hitler died on April 30 1945, ruling out all possibility that he had ever appeared in a photograph with her, much less — as some of the more overheated claims would have you believe — fathered her. Posted in Disinformation , Fact Checks Tagged 4chan , angela merkel , conspiracy memes , conspiracy theories , conspiracy theory , hitler , qanon , un climate summit (en)
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