Hitlers teacher son banned from working in schools in Victoria

A civil and administrative tribunal in the Australias Victoria state has banned a teacher from working in any school in the region after he claimed to be Adolf Hitlers son.

Melbourne, Sept.25 : A civil and administrative tribunal in the Australia's Victoria state has banned a teacher from working in any school in the region after he claimed to be Adolf Hitler's son.

The man had appealed against a decision to deregister him because of a 2002 conviction for fraud.

According to theage.com, Judge Marilyn Harbison's decision came after Michael O'Hara challenged a 2006 finding by the Victorian Institute of Teaching that he was unfit to teach.

Mr O'Hara, who represented himself at the appeal, gave his occupation as an Israeli intelligence agent, and described teaching as his "cover".

He came to police attention after offering two pistols for sale. He claimed that one of them was the pistol Adolf Hitler used to kill himself in his Berlin bunker and the other was owned by Hitler's wife, Eva Braun.

O'Hara said he owned the pistols because he was Hitler's son. He was convicted of fraud, after making a series of false documents claiming the firearms were authentic.

According to yesterday's tribunal decision, he also gave a "colourful and fanciful account" of his life as a secret agent during the hearing, which included assertions that the pistols were bait to flush neo-Nazis "out of their rat holes" on behalf of Israeli intelligence forces.

The VIT, which registers the state's teachers, argued that Mr O'Hara's actions were evidence of "calculated deceit".

ANI