A historian has been charged with stealing the dog tags of U.S. servicemen
whose planes crashed in World War II from the National Archives and selling
them on eBay.

The U.S. attorney’s office in Maryland says in a news release that
32-year-old Antonin DeHays of College Park, Maryland, was charged theft of
government records in federal court Tuesday.


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*Greenbelt*, Maryland – Antonin DeHays, age 32, of College Park, Maryland,
a historian, was charged by federal criminal complaint today with theft of
government records from the National Archives and Records Administration
(NARA).

The complaint was announced by Acting United States Attorney for the
District of Maryland Stephen M. Schenning and Assistant Inspector General
for Investigations Jason Metrick of the National Archives and Records
Administration - Office of Inspector General.

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For two years, the historian had been visiting a National Archives facility
in Maryland to review files on U.S. pilots who had crashed in
German-controlled Europe during World War II.

Last week, Antonin Dehays, a 32-year-old Frenchman, finally acknowledged
one reason why, federal investigators say: He’d been stealing the dog tags
of dead American heroes, selling many of them on eBay.

“The theft of our history should anger any citizen,” the Archivist of the
United States David Ferriero said Tuesday in a statement, “but as a veteran
I am shocked at allegations that a historian would show such disregard for
records and artifacts documenting those captured or killed in World War II.”


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