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The genetic analysis of a jawbone fished out of the North Sea has clarified the fate of a missing prominent Dutch resistance fighter after more than 80 years. According to the Dutch police, the identification was made possible by comparing the DNA material of the jaw, which fishermen found in their net off the coast of North Holland in 2003, with the genetic material of possible descendants. The bone is believed to belong to Ernst Moltzer, who, as vice-president of the Bols drinks company during World War II, resisted deliveries from his company to the Nazi occupiers and was dismissed. Moltzer…

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