Oh I just love all of this
@Eyespywithmylittleeye ! And absolutely it could be that old mate used DCOD "Don Juan' as a Mentor or as a guide after studying his life in later years. I agree completely and it really is the most logical and balanced outlook on it all. It would make it all the more viable to believe.
BUT for me personally, I don't believe that is what old mate did.
I am still going with it all as I am rather enjoying reading all the history of things.
And as this isn't a 'win a pony' at the end game for who was right or wrong but more to help eliminate any semblance of a theory /idea/hypothesis then that is what keeps me going. I take Sally's lead of exploring every avenue until it is a dead end. And that dead end might just be around the corner for me hahahaa!
I would be VERY surprised to find any birth certs on either AW or DCOD (if they are two different people) because of various factors - there is ZIP to go on in regard to AW - that very reasoning has kept me going with it - that is VERY odd. Even though there were wars, displacements of people, relatives of said people, you can usually find something, but there is nothing on him - not even on that EXTENSIVE Gen Tree that person did on over 80 000 people! .
AND...as you said "proper proof of birth certificate with Don Juan as the father"...
OR for that matter proof of a birth certificate with AW and MC !.... of any male children is not to be found! ( at this point in time)
And for DCOD, he got caught using that name yes, he has a birth and death notice in that name yes, and after the 1934 trial in France, there is not one shred of evidence I have found this far that he was even alive until his death notice pops up! ( Thanks to you
- that kept driving me on dang!
If he is really AW and has changed his name to such then there is a plausible reason in doing so and I am up that path at the moment!
LIKE WHY after the trial in 1934, he has no footprint? ( or not one that I have found so far!)
Too many 'coincidences' for me to throw DCOD to the curb just yet.
Like these - which can be swept away with the idea that RB just read stories about him for sure;
Wounded war hero
Placed advertisements to find woman
Fraud
Womaniser
Professional Dancer / gigolo
Flitting all over Europe - especially Amsterdam France & Germany
Accomplices who helped choose victims – (MOO with RB)
Passing himself off as a member of a rich noble family
Claimed disabled to work – living off the riches of the women
etc etc etc
So I started here with the idea that RB father is DCOD ( 'don juan' ) name changed to "Andre Wouters" after the trial at some point and under THIS name AW, meets Maria C and have the affair.
RB claims to visit his family all the time ( we know he is mostly fleecing ) – but he hasn't spoken to his brother for 30 yrs, DdeH doesn't actually say
WHO they stay with when they were there,
only that it is family friends etc / his cousins / brothers ( in arms perhaps 
)
RB visits Amsterdam a lot - in fact the whole family spend time there
RB manages to get a German Passport – How does he do that?
RB christens his children in a Catholic Church in UK - WHY??? He has never shown any interest in being a Christian
( maybe they are both praying that the kids get a decent job when they grow up
)
And that then started a flood gate that I cant let go of just yet!
But it is all starting to make sense with RB and WHY he choses his aliases.
And you and centred and kittens and chicken have helped me no end!
Even if it all goes to sh** and the dead end, it has been veerrryyyyy interesting!
