{"id":72761,"date":"2017-06-14T10:38:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T14:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72761"},"modified":"2017-06-14T10:38:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T14:38:54","slug":"antonin-dehaysfrench-historian-loots-us-national-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72761","title":{"rendered":"Antonin DeHays,French historian, loots US National Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=72762\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-72762\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Antonin-DeHays.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-72762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Antonin-DeHays.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Antonin-DeHays-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Chief Tango sends a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/wtop.com\/montgomery-county\/2017\/06\/historian-charged-stealing-selling-wwii-artifacts\/\">WTOP<\/a> which reports that Antonin DeHays, a French historian, has been charged with stealing &#8220;dog tags and other documents belonging to U.S. servicemen whose planes had crashed during World War II\u201d which he then traded for favors and sold on Ebay.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019 home. He was charged with theft of government records&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of DeHays returning a dogtag to a World War II veteran, James Kelson, in 2012 from this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dday-overlord.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?t=7507\">article in French<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=72763\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-72763\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Antonin-DeHays2-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-72763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Antonin-DeHays2-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Antonin-DeHays2-500x328.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Antonin-DeHays2.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/french-historian-accused-of-stealing-american-war-heroes-dog-tags-to-sell-on-ebay\/2017\/06\/13\/5159bc7a-507b-11e7-91eb-9611861a988f_story.html?utm_term=.a1e160a9c957\">The Washington Post<\/a> quotes my former boss, the Archivist of the United States;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe theft of our history should anger any citizen,\u201d the Archivist of the United States David Ferriero said Tuesday in a statement, \u201cbut 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.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is equivalent to Stolen Valor &#8211; stealing our heritage for personal profit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends a link from WTOP which reports that Antonin DeHays, a French historian, has &hellip; <a title=\"Antonin DeHays,French historian, loots US National Archives\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72761\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Antonin DeHays,French historian, loots US National Archives<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}