Baby Hitler hoax pic 1933

Above: The picture on the left first appeared in the United States in 1933 and was widely printed in newspapers. It was represented as being a picture of Adolf Hitler as a baby. It caused such a sensation that the German consul eventually felt obligated to denounce it as a 'fabrication.'

Sometime in 1937 Mrs. Harriet M.W. Downs, of Westport, Conn., noticed the picture in a magazine and recognized the infant as her own son, John May Warren (who by then was eight years-old and didn't resemble Hitler at all). The original picture of her son is shown above on the right. An unknown hoaxer had retouched the image to remove the frilly bonnet and darken the baby's eyes.

In May, 1938, Acme Newspictures, Inc. ran both pictures with an explanation of the hoax.

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/day/05_03_2001.html

 

Funny story, but off course it istn't Hitler.

 

Wow, I've never seen that. I'm surprized they didn't give him a little moustache!!

 

Actually looks like the American Silend Screen Actor: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle--when he was a toddler.

 

This is the real one:



And some years later:

 

The yellow press was there already 70 years ago....Adolf on the left of course...



Baby Adolf

 

Looks like Hugo Sperrle to me!

 

Death by milk bottle - what a way for a 8year old to die!