DNA tests reveal 'Hitler was descended from the Jews and Africans he hated'
By Allan Hall
Last updated at 10:53 AM on 24th August 2010
Revealing: The DNA tests on relatives of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler show he was probably descended from Jewish people and North Africans
Adolf Hitler is likely to have been descended from both Jews and Africans, according to DNA tests.
Samples taken from relatives of the Nazi leader show that he is biologically linked to the 'sub-human' races he sought to exterminate.
Journalist Jean-Paul Mulders and historian Marc Vermeeren used DNA to track down 39 of the Fuhrer's relatives earlier this year.
They included an Austrian farmer revealed only as a cousin called Norbert H.
A Belgian news magazine has reported that samples of saliva taken from these people strongly suggest Hitler had antecedents he certainly would not have cared for.
A chromosome called Haplopgroup E1b1b (Y-DNA) in their samples is rare in Germany and indeed Western Europe.
'It is most commonly found in the Berbers of Morocco, in Algeria, Libya and Tunisia as well as among Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews,' Mr Vermeeren said.
'One can from this postulate that Hitler was related to people whom he despised,' adds Mr Mulders in the magazine, Knack.
Haplogroup E1b1b1, which accounts for approximately 18 to 20 per cent of Ashkenazi and 8.6 per cent to 30 per cent of Sephardic Y-chromosomes, appears to be one of the major founding lineages of the Jewish population.
'This is a surprising result,' said Ronny Decorte, a genetic specialist who agreed that Hitler probably did have some roots in North Africa.
Roots: Hitler's DNA was found to contain Haplogroup E1b1b, commonly found in the Berbers of Morocco (left) - and also accounts for approximately 18 to 20 per cent of the Y-chromosomes of Sephardic Jews (right) who hail from Morocco, Spain and Portugal)
'It is difficult to predict, what happens with this information, both to opponents and supporters of Hitler,' he added.
The magazine says the DNA was tested under stringent laboratory conditions to obtain the results.
It is not the first time that historians have suggested Hitler had Jewish ancestry.
His father, Alois, is thought to have been the illegitimate offspring of a maid called Maria Schickelgruber and a 19-year-old Jewish man called Frankenberger.
This would have made the man who inspired the Holocaust one-quarter Jewish.
Hidden secrets: The Waldviertel region in Austria where Hitler's cousin, farmer Norbert H, was found
The Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in Poland where Hitler's extermination programme of the Jews was carried out
DNA on a serviette was taken from Alexander Stuart-Houston (now aged 61), a grand-nephew of Hitler
Reports have suggested that Hitler's nephew, Patrick, tried to blackmail his uncle over the issue of Alois Hitler's parentage. Hitler asked his lawyer, Hans Frank, to investigate the claims and he announced just before the outbreak of the Second World War that they were 'without any foundation'.
'Hitler would not have been pleased about this,' added Mr Decorte, of the Catholic University of Leuven.
'The affair is fascinating if one compares it with the conception of the world of the Nazis, in which race and blood was central.
'Hitler's concern over his descent was not unjustified. He was apparently not "pure" or "Ayran".'
DNA was also taken from American Alexander Stuart-Houston, 61, a grand-nephew of Hitler.
He was trailed for seven days before he dropped a used serviette which Mulders said led him to the cousin in Austria - and the link with Hitler's sworn enemies.
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i'm a berber and algerian and do not ressemble arabs or black africans and do not understand the point behind the story or the alleged study ,this has reached algeria and half the country is laughing and the other is outraged and says do not associat us with such a monster,our nation for the last 3000 years only gave birth to heros and delt a blow to every monster that has tried to erase our existance whatever time it took.
- mourad, london, 25/8/2010 14:46
I don't think this is anything new, but of course as always my heart goes out to those lives lost because of this man and all their families. I doubt anyone ever wants to hear or could even understand how they could be related to a man like this, it sickens me that he was a human being.
- Someone, A place, 25/8/2010 13:50
Psychology 101 - we despise in others what we deny in ourselves. - martin flaxman, queen charlotte, canada, 23/8/2010 10:08 So true. Jealousy drives a lot of people's emotion. I'm guilty of it!
- DeAnna, Georgia, USA, 25/8/2010 13:39
This goes to show that the worst kind of hate is self-hate. It is seductive, potentially powerful beyond measure, and is also characterized by self-denial. What is so insidious about self-hate is that if one can hate oneself, one can hate any and all things, including G_d.
- Steven Edward Aanes, Oakwood, GA 30566, 25/8/2010 12:07
Considering he had blue eyes (stated by Goebbels in his diary) and looked very european, I find this hard to believe. The DNA test here wasn't exactly very precise ...
- Alan, Bristol, UK, 25/8/2010 09:43
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