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NA tests reveal '****** 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 ****** show he was probably descended from Jewish people and North Africans

Revealing: The DNA tests on relatives of Nazi leader Adolf ****** show he was probably descended from Jewish people and North Africans

Adolf ****** 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 ****** 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 ****** 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 ****** probably did have some roots in North Africa.

Roots: ******'s DNA was found to contain Haplogroup E1b1b, commonly found in the Berbers of Morocco
******'s DNA was found to contain Haplogroup E1b1b

Roots: ******'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 ******,' 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 ****** 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 where a ******'s cousin, farmer Norbert H, was found

Hidden secrets: The Waldviertel region in Austria where ******'s cousin, farmer Norbert H, was found
The Auschwitz-Birkenau camp where ******'s Jewish extermination programme was carried out

The Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in Poland where ******'s extermination programme of the Jews was carried out
The original DNA on the serviette in the US was from Alexander Stuart-Houston (now aged 61), a grand-nephew of ******

DNA on a serviette was taken from Alexander Stuart-Houston (now aged 61), a grand-nephew of ******

Reports have suggested that ******'s nephew, Patrick, tried to blackmail his uncle over the issue of Alois ******'s parentage. ****** 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'.

'****** 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.

'******'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 ******.

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 ******'s sworn enemies

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