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Title: Author of book about fleeing the Nazis admits: 'I made itall up'
Post by: bijou on February 29, 2008, 04:22:30 PM
Author who made £10m from the book about fleeing the Nazis and living with wolves admits: 'I made it all up - and I'm not even Jewish'


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The memoirs of a girl of eight who wandered 3,000 miles across Nazi-occupied Europe searching for her missing parents was amazing enough.


Add in her claims of surviving two freezing winters living with a pack of wolves and you have a truly astonishing tale.


Unfortunately the life story that earned its author £10million and was translated into 18 languages was just that. A story.


Yesterday Misha Defonseca (real name Monique De Wael) admitted that her bestseller, Misha - A Memoir Of The Holocaust Years, was made up. Or, as she preferred to put it, "not the real reality".

She did not live with wolves and she did not spend four years crossing Europe from Belgium to the Ukraine during World War Two. She isn't even Jewish.

...more...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=522960&in_page_id=1811

I've got to the point where I now don't believe lurid autobiographies, there seems to be a continual succession of these fakes.
Title: Re: Author of book about fleeing the Nazis admits: 'I made itall up'
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on February 29, 2008, 06:26:35 PM
How could anyone see a plotline like that and not have their bullshit meter completely pinned?

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Title: Re: Author of book about fleeing the Nazis admits: 'I made itall up'
Post by: bijou on March 01, 2008, 04:13:17 AM
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on February 29, 2008, 06:26:35 PM
How could anyone see a plotline like that and not have their bullshit meter completely pinned?

 :rotf:
Perhaps not everyone has the exposure to Bouncy tales that we do, living proof why why Dummies think they can get away with it.