Reid was…struck by discrepancies in Hirt’s version of events and in the evidence Hirt provided in support of his claims. Hirt’s nephew has since acknowledged his story as a lie. Hirt, meanwhile, stood by his claims when reached for comment by the Reading Eagle. <\/p>\n
In researching Hirt, Reid concluded he lied about being imprisoned at Auschwitz, escaping from the camp and about his face-to-face encounters with the likes of Josef Mengele, the Nazi “Angel of Death.”<\/p>\n
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Much of Reid’s “debunking” involves a closer look at the dates and historical timelines presented by Hirt, ones Reid says were easily cross-checked. As for why no one has tried before, Reid says the answer is simple: “Who would suspect someone of making such extraordinary claims about such a topic?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
As with many of our phonies, Hirt’s real story is probably better than the lies he’s been telling – according to Hirt’s nephew, Michael, he escaped with his family as the Germans invaded Poland in 1939 and hid in the mountains of Italy as an intact family until the Americans liberated the country. Then they were shipped to the Emergency Refugee Shelter at Fort Ontario in Oswego, N.Y. in 1944. I guess that story was too pedestrian for the old coot.<\/p>\n
The nephew confronted Hirt on his lies and his excuses were similar to our own military phonies – that the media misquoted him and the false photos attributed to him are photo-shopped. <\/p>\n
Is there like a school for liars?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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