IANS, Aug 24, 2010, 12.22pm IST
LONDON--New DNA tests have revealed that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler possibly had Jewish as well as African ancestors
The Daily Express on Tuesday reported that samples taken from Hitler's relatives link him to both the Jewish community and people from North Africa.
Jean-Paul Mulders, a journalist, was able to investigate Hitler's DNA after he managed to lay his hands on a serviette dropped by the dictator's great-nephew Alexander Stuart-Houston who lives in New York. A serviette is a small square of cloth or paper used while eating to protect the clothes, wipe the mouth and hand.
He got a second sample from an Austrian cousin of Hitler, a farmer known as Norbert H.
The DNA tests threw up a startling result.
It revealed a form of the Y-chromosome that is rare in Germany and the rest of Western Europe, but common among Jewish and North African groups.
Experts now think that Hitler had migrant relatives who settled in his homeland.
Mulders said both the test samples had a form of genetic material known as Haplopgroup E1b1b, proving an "irrefutable link" to the Nazi leader.
"It is most commonly found in the Berbers of Morocco, in Algeria, Libya and Tunisia, as well as among Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews. One can from this postulate that Hitler was related to people whom he despised," the Belgian journalist was quoted as saying.
Ronny Decorte, a genetic specialist in Belgium, said: "Hitler would not have been pleased about this.
"Race and blood was central in the world of the Nazis. Hitler's concern over his descent was not unjustified. He was apparently not 'pure' or 'Aryan'."
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LONDON--New DNA tests have revealed that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler possibly had Jewish as well as African ancestors
Jean-Paul Mulders, a journalist, was able to investigate Hitler's DNA after he managed to lay his hands on a serviette dropped by the dictator's great-nephew Alexander Stuart-Houston who lives in New York. A serviette is a small square of cloth or paper used while eating to protect the clothes, wipe the mouth and hand.
He got a second sample from an Austrian cousin of Hitler, a farmer known as Norbert H.
The DNA tests threw up a startling result.
It revealed a form of the Y-chromosome that is rare in Germany and the rest of Western Europe, but common among Jewish and North African groups.
Experts now think that Hitler had migrant relatives who settled in his homeland.
Mulders said both the test samples had a form of genetic material known as Haplopgroup E1b1b, proving an "irrefutable link" to the Nazi leader.
"It is most commonly found in the Berbers of Morocco, in Algeria, Libya and Tunisia, as well as among Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews. One can from this postulate that Hitler was related to people whom he despised," the Belgian journalist was quoted as saying.
Ronny Decorte, a genetic specialist in Belgium, said: "Hitler would not have been pleased about this.
"Race and blood was central in the world of the Nazis. Hitler's concern over his descent was not unjustified. He was apparently not 'pure' or 'Aryan'."
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2 comments:
This doesn't seem very conclusive evidence to me, unless the article is just poorly written and short on explanation. DNA from a cousin (or two?) was tested and they would have only a certain number of genes in common with Hitler himself, it would be far from 100% the same. The DNA results are about the persons checked and not Hitler himself so it is not 100% conclusive evidence, though it may be correct, and if you go back far enough the same is true of all Europeans so it is not all that surprising - we all stem from Africa. It doesn't mean he identified in any way with some particular remote genes from the past any more than most people do that similarly have a mixed background. I am of four distinct European nationalities going back just two generations, just imagine if going back farther what might be there. Besides, this is old information that I heard decades ago in school (less the DNA proof) and I believe I learned that Hitler himself was aware of some Jewish ancestry in his lineage. Doesn't mean he was proud of that. I believe that he knew that he was not true Arian and did not have the blue eyes but still appreciated which was more distinctly Arian.
Sorry, meant to say blonde hair, Hitler had blue eyes I believe but brown hair.
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