In March 2024, a picture spread in social networks, the author of which allegedly captured the grandmother of the current head of the European Commission at the moment when she shakes the hand of Adolf Hitler. We found out who actually came to this photo.
March 18 member of the Council of the Federation of the Russian Federation, ex-head of the Roscosmos Corporation Dmitry Rogozin Published This photo on the social network X with the signature: “Granny of the current chairman of the European Commission in an interesting company. Here you are b *** and ... now it’s clear. ” Ten days later the same picture Placed In his Telegram channel, political analyst Alexander Semchenko (92,000 views at the time of writing this analysis). The image was also distributed by ordinary users X And Facebook.
A photograph, which allegedly captures Hitler and grandmother von der Layen, distributed in different languages (for example, Croatian And Greek), which attracted the attention of European facts. ELLINIKAHOAXES project discovered This picture on the website of the photo archive of East Prussia, which claims that the author captured a girl named Hildegard Zandop next to the Fuhrer. According to the archive, this frame was made in 1937 in the settlement Owanenen (now the village of Berezovka in the modern Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation). The Croatian publication Faktograf also Found A picture in the Getty Images photo bank, the same date (1937) is indicated there, but another place for shooting (Bukeburg city) is named, but the girl’s name is not given.
Ursula von der Lyain (in the girlishness of Albrecht) Born In 1958 in Brussels. Her father is a German politician Ernst Albrecht, mother - Heidi Adele Stromeyer. Grandmother of the head of the European Employment Commission was called Adelhaid Berg, according to the maternal - Gertrude Olrogge. Judging by the open data, there are no women with the surname Zandop in the genealogical tree, and the grandmothers of the head of the European Commission in 1937, when a viral photograph was taken, were older than the girl in the picture. The lack of data on her and the politician was also confirmed by the press secretary of the photo archive of East Prussia Anna Langner.
The photograph spreading on social networks is usually presented in the form of a screenshot of publication on the social network X, which was placed in his blog by an American political scientist and publicist Norman Finkelstein. The English -language signature says: “Photo from the family album Ursula von der Layen. "My dear grandmother did not wash her hands for a month after this significant event." Such a tweet really was published In November 2023. Apparently, the record was satirical - Finkelstein sharply criticizes Israeli’s military operation in the Gaza Strip, caused by the attack of Hamas militants in October last year, while von der Lyayen speaks more restrained on this issue.
In signatures to the picture, some authors also indicatedthat one of the grandfathers (or great -grandfathers) was the head of the European Commission, General SS Karl Albrecht Oberg. “Oberg has 100,000 human souls sent to concentration camps,” say users of social networks.
On the paternal line von der Lyeen is happening From the German family of Albrechtov, which has been leading its genealogy since the 16th century. How Installed AFP journalists who studied German genealogical reference books, the grandfather of the head of the European Commission was a doctor and psychologist Karl Eduard Albrecht (1902–1965), and the great -grandfather was the merchant Friedrich Karl Albrecht (1875–1952).
Karl Albrecht Oberg has nothing to do with this family, Albrecht is part of his name, not the surname. He was born in 1897 and really occupied High posts in the Nazi hierarchy, having traveled from the ordinary member of the SS to the general. In 1942-1944, he headed the SS and the police in occupied France and for particular cruelty received from local residents the nickname of the Parisian Butcher. In 1945, Oberg Captured In Austria, later he was sentenced to death twice, but pardoned in 1958, replacing the highest measure with life imprisonment. In 1962, he was ahead of schedule, three years later he died in Germany.
Thus, the viral photo is not depicted by the grandmother of Ursula von der Layen, who presses the hand of Adolf Hitler. For the first time (and apparently, in a joke), this picture was connected with the head of the European Commission, American publicist Norman Finkelstein. There is no evidence of kinship between the girl in the photo and the politician. It is also false that one of the ancestors of von der Lyain was a senior SS officer.
The allegations that grandfathers and great -grandfathers of European politicians held important posts in Nazi Germany or committed war crimes during the Second World War, far from the first time appear on the Internet. So, "verified" already Disassembled Similar statements that Russian pro -government media and officials made about the Chancellor of Germany Olaf Sholce and members of his government. In part, only information about the grandfather of the Foreign Minister Annalenna Berkok, who served in the army of the Third Reich, turned out to be true, but did not hold important posts. The head of the German foreign policy, through her press secretary, said that she did not know a significant part of the information that became known recently.
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