Adolf Hitler, who called Jews and Africans "sub-human," is actually a descendant from both those backgrounds, DNA tests reveal.
According to the
Daily Mail, journalist Jean-Paul Mulders and historian Marc Vermeeren tracked down 39 of the Fuhrer's relatives earlier this year using DNA. The family lineage included an Austrian farmer revealed only as a cousin named Norbert H.
The researchers found in their DNA a chromosome called Haplopgroup E1b1b (Y-DNA), commonly found in the Berbers of Morocco, in Algeria, Libya and Tunisia as well as among Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews.
Mulders told the Belgian magazine: "One can from this postulate that Hitler was related to people whom he despised."
As the Daily Mail reports:
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 recent DNA discovery isn't the first time a theory about Hitler's Judaic roots has surfaced. The Jerusalem Report
says Hitler's father, Alois, was "thought by some to have been the illegitimate offspring of a maid called Maria Schickelgruber and a 19-year-old Jewish man with the family name of Frankenberger."
