Says Angela Merkel is the daughter of Adolf Hitler, Justin Trudeau is the son of Fidel Castro and Barbara Bush is the daughter of Aleister Crowley.
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- These people are not the parents of these political heavyweights.
A recent Facebook post takes nepotism in politics to a new level.
"PARENTS," it reads above photos of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Cuban revolutionary and former prime minister of Cuba FIdel Castro, and Aleister Crowley, a British occultist.
Beneath these photos are three more with arrows connecting them to suggest that Hitler is the father of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Castro is the father of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Crowley is the father of the late, former First Lady Barbara Bush.
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Hitler officially died childless, though a man named Jean-Marie Loret maintained until he died that he was the only son of the German dictator. Merkel, meanwhile, was born in Hamburg, West Germany, in 1954 to Horst Kasner, a Lutheran minister. Her mother, Herlind Kasner, was an English teacher.
Like his son Justin Trudeau’s father, Pierre Trudeau, was once the Canadian prime minister. Trudeau’s mother, Margaret Trudeau, was an activist and she once visited Cuba and met Castro, but that was several years after Justin Trudeau was born. There’s a conspiracy theory that Justin Trudeau is the product of an alleged affair between his mother and Castro but both Snopes and the Associated Press have debunked it.
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It is believed that Castro had 11 children, but the Canadian prime minister was not one of them.
Barbara Bush, mother to George W. and Jeb, was born in 1925 to Pauline and Marvin Pierce. Her father was the president of McCall Corporation.
The claims about her and the other public figures in this post are ridiculous. We rate it Pants on Fire.
Our Sources
Facebook post, Aug. 3, 2020
Britannica, Aleister Crowley, visited Aug. 6, 2020
ABC News, Did Hitler have a secret son? Evidence supports alleged son’s claims, Feb. 21, 2015
CNN, In photos: The life and career of Angela Merkel, July 10, 2019
Time, 9 things to know about Justin Trudeau’s parents, Oct. 20, 2015
Snopes, Is Justin Trudeau Fidel Castro’s love child?, Nov. 30, 2016
The Associated Press, No, Fidel Castro is not Canada PM Trudeau’s father, Feb. 17, 2018
The Washington Post, Where are the Castro kids? The next generation of the Cuban dynasty lies low, April 20, 2018
The White House, Barbara Pierce Bush, visited Aug. 6, 2020
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