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MUNICH, Germany (AFP) - DNA tests have confirmed that all-American hero and aviator Charles Lindbergh fathered three illegitimate children in Germany, their spokesman said. In a statement, he said the tests supported their assertions that Lindbergh, who won instant celebrity for making the first solo, non-stop transatlantic flight in 1927, was their father. The probes, examined by a Munich university medical centre, compared their DNA with a sample from a member of Lindbergh's family. The result, handed in writing to the three last week, showed a probability of paternity of more than 99 percent."They never had any doubt about the...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A U.S. grandson of Charles Lindbergh said Friday it was possible three Germans who say the aviator was their father were telling the truth because in photographs they "look hauntingly familiar." Morgan Lindbergh, 36, said in a telephone call to Reuters that he wanted to take the Germans up on their offer to submit to DNA tests to resolve the question of whether Lindbergh was their father and that he would also take a DNA test himself. "I'm not speaking for the Lindbergh family but only for myself -- I believe it is possible (they are Lindbergh...

Report: Lindberg had secret family WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- A report in a German newspaper Sunday said legendary aviator Charles Lindbergh had a secret family, with three children, in that country. Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper interviewed his supposed German children, now in middle age, who said their mother insisted the relationship be kept quiet while she was alive. The story said Lindbergh met Brigitte Hesshaimer, a hatmaker in Munich, when he was 55 years old, in 1957. Her daughter, Astrid Bouteuil, said she has more than 100 letters from the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic, but...

Charles Lindbergh’s sympathy for the Nazi regime in prewar Germany has long been a stain on his gilded legacy — a puzzling detour in a life of heroic adventure. Now, a prominent German newspaper claims that Lindbergh had more personal ties to Germany long after World War II, through a relationship with a woman in Munich, with whom he had three children, the paper says. In an article to be published Saturday, Süddeutsche Zeitung reports that on a visit to Germany in 1957, Lindbergh, then 55, met and fell in love with Brigitte Hesshaimer, a hat-maker 24 years his junior....

Friday, August 1st, 2003, 18:39 Charles Lindbergh Led Double Life With Munich Woman Munich (dpa) - Charles Lindbergh, who became a hero after his non-stop flight from New York to Paris in 1927, led a double life according to a report in the "Süddeutsche Zeitung". The paper wrote in its Saturday edition that in 1957 the American Lindbergh learned to know and to love the 24 year younger hat maker, Brigitte Hesshaimer, in Munich . It was a close relationship which lasted until Lindbergh's death in 1974. Lindbergh's wife seems to have known nothing about the second family in Munich,...