Werner Maser (12 July 1922, Paradeningken – 5 April 2007) was a German historian, journalist and professor at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.
[1] He was born in Paradeningken (then part of East Prussia, and now within Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia) to a farmer and horse breeder.
After his release, he studied theology, philosophy and political science at Berlin, Munich and Erlangen.
[1] During the late 1970s Maser claimed that Hitler had fathered a son (Jean-Marie Loret) with a French peasant dancer in 1918.
[1][2] He also wrote biographies of German politicians Friedrich Ebert, Paul von Hindenburg and Helmut Kohl.