Politicians

[rockedred]

Originally Posted by mike5903

This and another Pic of so. resembling Angela Merkel have been circulating for a long time. It has been established that it's not the current German Chancellor.

ha ha, ''established' by whom?

[anonjohn]

Originally Posted by rudolfm

Do you recognize the lady in front? She is older now ')

I, and many others, would love this to be a young politician who was born in East Germany in 1954. Naturists are thrilled by the idea of a prominent and respected stateswoman openly practising naturism; celebrity hunters want to believe; her enemies and detractors would also like this to be true. It looks a bit like her. They argue that because FKK was widely practised in Germany - especially in the East - it is not impossible that she may may have participated in natural swimming and sunbathing with her friends and family. But even if she did this, how likely is it that she posed for FKK photographs in Communist East Germany to be published in a western naturist magazine?

Desperately wanting something to be true does not make it true.

The naturist woman lookalike, seems to be aged between 15-25 (outside ranges), so IF it is her, the photo would have to have been taken between 1969-1979.


1. Others here have much more experience in dating hairstyles - when was the FKK beach photo taken? and how old would she have been then?


2. Although the face of the naturist woman looks like her NOW - to me, it does not look like her face when she was the same age as the naturist woman. As you can see, her face has changed significantly over the years.


3. According to the Buzzfeed news site (April 2013)
buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/angela-merkel-nude-photo-may-not-be-of-angela-merkel

the man (known to some here) who first posted these FKK beach pictures on
nudiarist.blogspot.com Nudist Photos of the Day - Nov 27, 2009
did not believe they are of her and thinks the photograph appeared originally in a Swedish nudist magazine called Helios that published in the 1950s and 1960s. She would therefore have been much younger that the naturist woman - prepubescent to adolescent.

He also notes that the first re-publication of "his" pictures claiming this connection was on April Fool's Day ...


4. Some issues of Helios magazine are on the Internet Archive website but I can't find these pics there.
Further research for those better at this than I am: find these images in the original magazine eg Helios with the date and any captions regarding place. A publication date of say 1965 would absolutely rule her out. A early-mid 1970s date could, theoretically, be of her.

MODS: I hope I'm not breaking the rules regarding full real names (used for shaming, abuse or revenge), as I am doing the opposite, by arguing that this is not the person it is alleged to be.

[poapoa]

9 years ago, some young sympathizers from the left green party in The Netherlands decided to campaign with nudity.
The video was deleted shortly after due to some negative comments..

[Turtle]

As politicians fall under our no celebrities rule as well as the political arguments that crop up, this thread is now closed.