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German ‘Blogger of the Year’ Invented Her ‘Jewish’ Family History, Cheated Media for Years

2 June 2019

RUSSIA TODAY — German historian Marie Sophie Hingst, famous for her blog about family members who perished in the Holocaust, has been caught in a lie. The revelation also put the media, which published her other ‘personal stories’, in a bind.

Hingst, who lives in Dublin, rose to prominence because of her stories about her alleged Jewish ancestors, who tragically died in the times of the Holocaust. These were published on her blog ‘Read on my dear, read on’ (now offline), which she started back in 2013 in Dublin. The blog featured accounts of her grandfather in particular, who she said was killed in the Nazi death camp Auschwitz.

Her exploits did not go unnoticed as, at some point, her blog reached a whopping 240,000 readers while she was named ‘blogger of the year’ and awarded by the Golden Bloggers association – the group behind one of the major German social media influencers’ awards. […]

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