German blogger who made up own family’s Holocaust story observed useless

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A German historian and disgraced blogger who became outed last month for growing a fake account of her circle of relatives suffering at some point during the Holocaust has been observed lifeless at age 31, a document said. Marie Sophie Hingst became located in her Dublin rental on July 17, The Times of Israel stated. While police have ruled out foul play, officers couldn’t verify the purpose of dying.

RUSSIAN INSTAGRAM INFLUENCER FOUND DEAD WITH STAB WOUNDS STUFFED IN SUITCASE AT HER OWN MOSCOW APARTMENT. Her loss of life comes almost a month after German magazine Der Spiegel ran a piece alleging the tale of her circle of relatives Holocaust records became greater fiction than reality. Hingst was stripped of her 2017 Golden Blogger award in June amid the revelations.

In 2013, in step with Der Spiegel, Hingst sent 22 pages of testimony concerning nonexistent people to Israel’s Holocaust archive, Yad Vashem. She additionally declared her “family” in a weblog titled “Read on my expensive, examine on,” which she later took offline.

According to the magazine, her story fell apart when archivists from the German town of Stralsund investigated and ruled out the existence of six of her named spouses and children.
“This type of con activity might not be a crime per se. However, it’s miles nevertheless scandalous,” wrote Der Spiegel editor Martin Derry, who claimed Hingst admitted her tale turned into fiction. “Inventing Holocaust victims is largely a mockery of all folks who, in reality, have been tortured and killed by the Nazis.” Dublin-primarily based reporter Derek Scally, who interviewed Hingst for The Irish Times, stated she seemed to be afflicted by intellectual contamination.

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Hingst’s mother told Scally that her daughter “has many realities” and struggled for years with mental illness. Hingst told Scally she felt “skinned alive” after Der Spiegel posted the article.

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