I think it is ironic that a photo of Moe Howard, who was Jewish, was
purported to be that of Hitler! Karlis

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 7:13 AM, Ewen, Charles <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Mo may not have been Hitler but Curly was definitely Goering!
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> Charles R. Ewen, Ph.D.
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> >Date:    Wed, 12 Jul 2017 03:59:02 -0700
> >From:    Alasdair Brooks <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Re: news feed: new photo may show Emilia Earhart after crash
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> >The History Channel has form with misrepresenting photographic evidence.
> >
> >This time last year I was in Argentina helping to film what turned out to
> be a couple of episodes of the History Channel show 'Hunting Hitler'.  More
> complete details (including my reasons for agreeing to participate in the
> first place) are available in last year's Fall SHA Newsletter, but one
> point is particularly relevant here...
> >
> >The first episode of the second season begins with someone
> melodramatically throwing a photograph of an elderly man down on the table
> and declaring that 'this is a photograph of Hitler in Misiones [province,
> Argentina]'.
> >
> >Unfortunately, that photograph turned out to be an elderly Moe Howard
> from the Three Stooges, apparently sourced from this website:
> http://web2.airmail.net/~/z1528052/  (scroll down the page and look for
> the photograph directly under the headline 'MY PAL MOE by Bob Bernet' when
> the main story begins).  Once a few observant people on the blogosphere
> pointed this out, the photograph mysteriously disappeared from most later
> episodes, with a subsequent 'scientific test' obscuring Moe's face, and
> reaching the conclusion (unsurprisingly) that Moe wasn't Hitler (or vice
> versa) after all.
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> >I stress that I had absolutely nothing to do with that rather awkward
> segment, but it does rather help to display the level of academic rigour
> being used in these programmes - even the ones that don't involve aliens.
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> >And no, they didn't find Hitler either, oddly enough.
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> >Alasdair Brooks
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