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Orson Welles was a liar


His story of meeting young Hitler at summer camp is a pure lie. Hitler was from a poor working class his family didnt have enough money to send him to summer camp. its such an outlandish story. the man is a clear liar. Not to mention Hitler was a good 30years older than him.

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He never said was during his youth. If there's any verification point to start from it would be at 1931 moving forward.

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the timing makes no sense

No. The math doesn’t work. Wells was born in May of 1915. We know that he first traveled to Europe in the summer of 1931. He claims that he attended a Nazi rally near Innsbruck and sat next to Hitler at dinner at a time when the Nazi’s were still a small party of “crackpots” that no one took seriously. This may have been the Nazi party 10 years earlier but certainly not even the late 1920’s. By late 1931 (the earliest Welles could have met him) Hitler was not the leader a “tiny party of crackpots” - but a major political force - the leader of the second largest party in the German Reichstag with millions of followers. 15 months later he would be Chancelor or Germany. Hitler was famously fanatical about security. By that point he had a dedicated security detail that was the best in the world and functioned much like the secret service does today. He was well guarded 24/7 - No one got near him.

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