Chief Tango sends a link from WTOP which reports that Antonin DeHays, a French historian, has been charged with stealing “dog tags and other documents belonging to U.S. servicemen whose planes had crashed during World War II” which he then traded for favors and sold on Ebay.
On at least one occasion, the Justice Department said DeHays traded a dog tag from a Tuskegee Airman for the chance to sit in a Spitfire, the iconic British World War II fighter plane.
The statement read that the thefts occurred between October 2015 and last Friday, and that investigators, following up a search warrant, found six dog tags and other documents at DeHays’ home. He was charged with theft of government records….
Here’s a picture of DeHays returning a dogtag to a World War II veteran, James Kelson, in 2012 from this article in French;
The Washington Post quotes my former boss, the Archivist of the United States;
“The theft of our history should anger any citizen,” the Archivist of the United States David Ferriero said Tuesday in a statement, “but as a veteran I am shocked at allegations that a historian would show such disregard for records and artifacts documenting those captured or killed in World War II.”
This is equivalent to Stolen Valor – stealing our heritage for personal profit.
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44 responses to “Antonin DeHays,French historian, loots US National Archives”
Dog Pile!
I would flog that frog bastard until he couldn’t stand, then cut off whatever is left of his manhood! the dirty, lowlife son of a bitch!!
Qu’il est le merde!
Run this fucker through a gauntlet of WWII vets. If he survives, then run him through a gauntlet of Korean War vets. Repeat gauntlet cycles as needed…
No need for Americans to get their hands dirty: Find some REAL veterans of the French Resistance (not the numerous fakes that popped up after WWII) and let them go to work on him.
As well as the surviving Free French Foreign Legionnaire veterans who fought at Bir Hacheim in 1942…
Fucking asshole…
Antonin DeHays needs to be horsewhipped and staked out nekkid in the snow.
Nekkid on Omaha Beach. Frog bastard.
I have a fabulous Roasted Frog Leg in a Creamy White Wine and Garlic Butter Sauce recipe if you’d like it 🙂
That’ll work.
I was thinking snow because Dad fought the Germans through France in the snow & wound up getting pneumonia from the experience.
Omaha beach will work. Can we stake him out nekkid on Omaha Beach in January during a storm? Please please please?
Absolutely! Its cold there even in June, so he’ll freeze his bits off little by little 👿
Stake him on Omaha Beach, just above the low tide line.
This frigg’n F***Muppet needs to be crucified…something akin to Jeanne d’Arc.
Hangin’s too good for him!
Burnin’s too good for him.
He should be torn into little bitsy pieces…
STERRRRNNNNN!!!!
Next stop, teaching French history in the shower stalls w/ Bubba, Jethro, LeRoy.
Dropped on Jarvis Island with nothing but a Speedo.
Fuck this frog cocksucker straight to hell.
Let’s give him a fair trial and then hang him.
https://www.facebook.com/antonin.dehays.5?lst=100000984588881%3A1030700366%3A1497459899
his Facebook page is still open for comments
Not anymore….looks like it came down pretty quick.
It’s still there, he just changed his name.
It’s gone again
Still there.
Basically, a fucking grave robber.
Why are the streets in France lined with trees?
So the German army can march in the shade.
My dad’s favorite joke used to be, Free French rifles, only dropped once!
Dear France,
You’re STILL our bitch.
Signed,
Germany
Step One) Shove a glass rod up his pee hole and then hit him over the junk with a rubber mallet to break the rod. Then, initiate IVs so that he has to pee out those glass shards.
Step Two) When he starts to scream in horrible pain from peeing out those glass shards, shove a red hot poker up his ass.
Didn’t someone already perfect this method? I believe he deserves it the weasley cheese eating surrender monkey!
I consider it the same as looting.
And we are at a time of war…..
If this steaming pile of Phil Monkress was conducting actual historical research, I can only imagine the museum/archive would have been more than happy to help.
But no.
Fuck this maggot.
Is this a federal crime? And he’s living here? There’s a solution, jail or persona non grata. Breaking both his hands might be a more direct response, as I’m sure Monsieur regards us as barbarians who don’t even eat snails in butter. Wouldn’t want to let him down. Perhaps a tastegull “T” branded on his forehead, n’cest pas? Formidable! Voleur! Flanneur!
P.s. Ask him what his family did during the years 1940-45. Always a thigh slapper.
speak for yourself on the snails in butter… love me some escargot. But I eat all manner of things like what Pilgrims called aquatic spiders, bait, mollusks, tentacles, semi-charred immature cow shoulder muscle.
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https://www.facebook.com/antonin.dehays.5?lst=100000984588881%3A1030700366%3A1497459899
He is on social meeja.
Maybe the French will allow one of our historians to ransack the Louvre and we can call it even-stevens.
Not under open borders
It’s ok for our history to be looted
According to the left we deserve it
In no way intended to minimize how despicable this clown is, but isn’t the objective of the Archives to protect historical items? Is there no security in place to stop something like this??
Somebody’s got some ‘splainin’ to do.
As a historian, he probably had access that most people don’t get. IOW, they trusted him, and he violated that trust, bigly.
Not a new thing… Google Theft from National Archives and quite a few things pop up. One thing that I recalled was that a writer by the name of Thomas P Lowery actually went as far as altering documents, putting them back and ” discovering” them later in his research.
I believe Sandy Burger was caught stealing from the National Archives…