Did the most notorious villain of modern history have an illegitimate child? Life Science reports new evidence has emerged supporting Jean-Marie Loret’s claim that Hitler is his father.
Loret, who died in 1985, was the illegitimate child of a French teenager, Charlotte Lobjoie, who gave him up for adoption. Shortly before her death, Lobjoie confessed that she conceived Loret after a “tipsy” encounter with Der Fuhrer in 1917.
Official documents show that German officers delivered envelopes of cash to Lobjoie during the occupation. Paintings signed “Adolf Hitler” were found in Miss Lobjoie’s attic. Hitler may also have used her as a model. A portrait resembling her was discovered among his works.
How does it feel to learn you’re the child of a monster? “In order not to get depressed, I worked tirelessly, never taking a vacation,” Loret related in his book, “Your Father’s Name is Hitler.”
Loret is in good company. Here are two other adopted children who experienced the horror of discovering that their birth parents were infamous killers.
Helter Skelter
Matthew Roberts a DJ from Rockford, Il got more than he bargained for when he began searching for his birth parents. He quickly found his biological mother, Terry, but she skirted his questions about his father.
Eventually the truth came out, Roberts was the progeny of mass murder and charismatic mad man, Charles Manson.
Roberts was conceived during an orgy, so Terry wasn’t completely sure Manson was his father until she saw him for the first time. “I’m a peaceful person — trapped in the face of a monster,” he complained.
“It’s like finding out Hitler is your dad,” Roberts explained – no kidding?
Small Sacrifice
Becky Babcock always knew she was adopted. Like Roberts, she wanted to know who her birthparents were, and like him, she got a nasty shock. Becky is the fourth child of Diane Downs, who was convicted of murdering her 7-year-old daughter, Cheryl, and attempting to murder her two other children. The movie “Small Sacrifices” was based on Downs’ horrific attack on her own children and the events that followed.
During the trial, Downs got pregnant with Becky, who was born in prison. Finding out about her birth mother sent a fragile teenage Becky into a “downward spiral.”
“I started drinking, doing drugs, sleeping around,” she told Oprah in a 2010 interview. But this story has a happy ending. With counseling and support from her adoptive family and her own “amazing and well adjusted” son, Becky realized genetics don’t dictate who you are.