DNA tests reveal Hitler's Jewish and African roots
The Fuhrer 'would not have been happy' to learn he was more Berber tribesman than Aryan superman.
By Haaretz Service Tags: Israel news Jewish World HitlerAdolf Hitler may have owed more to the 'subhuman' races he tried to exterminate than to his 'Aryan' compatriots, according to new finding published in Belgium this week.
In research for the Flemish-language magazine Knack, journalist Jean-Paul Mulders traced Hitler's living relatives in the Fuhrer's native Austria, as well as the United States.
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Adolf Hitler |
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"The results of this study are surprising," said Ronny Decorte, a geneticist interviewed by Knack. "Hitler would not have been happy."
Geneticists identify groups of chromosomes called haplogroups, 'genetic fingerprints' that define populations.
According to Mulders, Hitler's dominant haplogroup, E1b1b, is relatively rare in Western Europe - but strongest in some 25 percent of Greeks and Sicilians, who apparently acquired the genes from Africa: Between 50 percent and 80 percent of North Africans share Hitler's dominant group, which is especially prevalent among in the Berber tribes of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, and Somalis.
More surprising still, perhaps, is that Hitler's second most dominant haplogroup is the most common in Ashkenazi Jews.
"The findings are fascinating if you look at them in terms of the Nazi worldview, which ascribed such an extreme priority to notions of blood and race," Decorte said.
Knack said it would now petition Russian government archives to release a human jawbone wrapped in a blood-soaked cloth, retrieved from a Berlin bunker where Hitler is thought to have committed suicide and believed to have belonged to the Fuhrer, who dreamed of engineering a Nazi superman.
"For modern science, there are no more races, Decorte said. "This pure type of 'superman' and the [Nazi] breeding programs to perfect 'purity' were sheer fabrication."
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While there was not much "intermarriage" between Jews and their fellow Europeans until modern times, there was certainly some. And add into that illegitimate births from the occasional affair, rapes, etc. I think there's much more "hidden distant Jewish blood" in Christian Europeans and vice versa than we know. How else do you explain that Ashkenazim look more like Europeans than Arabs and while they do not have the frequency of blonde hair/blue eyes of Swedes, few if any Arabs have them at all. Even Hitler knew this, why else did he need gold stars to separate them from his so-called "Aryan superman". This just proves the fallacy of racism.
Please does anyone read? The Ashkenazim are decadents from Khazars (Slavs) and not from "Arabs".
Is this one of the Jewish charactaristics; Hatred? looking at what Israel is doing to Gaza today, it sounds just right
make you a Jew? I pray to G-D that your logic is flawd. Is Idiocity a charachteristic of every person named BOBBY, or you just a one of a kind?
That is approved by the Haaretz.
a jew killed jews.
While Josef Mengele lived in Brasil, people close to him have said Mengele mentioned Hitler's jewish roots was very well know among those closer to him. It was hatred of his own roots that drove him to such atrocities.
Hitler was very well aware that his mother was part Jewish. This was his reason for his trying to exterminate that race so he could be sure that no more of his family relation would have Jewish blood! He wasn't proud of the fact. Dna is nice but reading up on your history will give you quickerresults unless your looking for a feather in your cap?! Duh'
....being "Barbarian" ?
On the Science chanel--or on Nova, it was stated that the bones found at the bunker, allegedly belonging to Hitler, were actually female, giving more credibility that he was sent into into hiding somewhere else--probably South America.
This is always the case. We are our own worst enemy, when there is peace between us, there will be peace beyond us.
Germans and Austrians were Christians. Then, overnight, they all (99%?) adopted Nazism. Nazism preached that Jews were a race, an inferior one, forgetting that their saviour, Jesus, was from that race. And the Catholic or Protestant Churches didn't remind their flocks of this small detail.
Please enough of the holier then thou. There were 150,000 Jewish Nazis, Jewish Bankers funded the Nazis, Jewish owned business supplier the Nazis with war materials. Hitler's lawyer, doctor, cook, girlfriend were all Jewish. His chief upper ranks were held by Jews. Where was the noise and outcry in the Jewish Press? It is always the anti-Semitic Christians.
Nowhere, because you are full of insidious lies.
How could somebody be so ignorant as to post this crap. Please supply your links that there were 150,000 Jewish nazis. What Jewish owned businesses supplied the nazis with war materials, who were Hitlers Jewish laywers, doctors, cooks and girlfriend. Please supply some names where you dug up this fantastic information that none of the worlds greatest historians know about. I bet that you think that the Holocaust did not happen either. To quote Forest Gump "Stupid is as stupid does"
It not always the anti-semitic christains. Its mostly anti-semitic morons like you. Do you know anything about history. Have you ever read anything besides the "Turner Dairies". So acording to you Goebells, Hess, Himmler, Goering were all Jewish. Hmm interesting theory you moron.
If you read hsitory so well from different sources and you still deny that Hitler had few jews on his side, then you are sticking your head in the sand..remeber the word COLLABORATORS in evry dictionary in every nation, in every history....
in nazi germany, a large number of german military men were classified by the nazis as jews or "partial-jews" (mischlinge) a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the third reich. a large number were in the nazi german military as high as 150,000 in one estimate. many of them were in the hierarchy of the third reich. Thousands of men of Jewish descent and hundreds of what the Nazis called 'full Jews' served in the German military with Adolf Hitler's knowledge and approval. Cambridge University researcher Bryan Rigg has traced the Jewish ancestry of more than 1,200 of Hitler's soldiers, including two field marshals and fifteen generals (two full generals, eight lieutenant generals, five major generals), "men commanding up to 100,000 troops." In approximately 20 cases, Jewish soldiers in the Nazi army were awarded Germany's highest military honor, the Knight's Cross. One of these Jewish veterans is today an 82 year old resident of northern Germany, an observant Jew who served as a captain and practiced his religion within the Wehrmacht throughout the war. One of the Jewish field marshals was Erhard Milch, deputy to Luftwaffe Chief Hermann Goering. Rumors of Milch's Jewish identity circulated widely in Germany in the 1930s.
how in the world had the author of the above speculation,accessed to the genes of hitler ,who left nothing behind .
According to his racial theory, those who had a larger "dose" of "Aryan" DNA were in a better position to lead. The original Germanic tribes and Vikings had small doses of Aryan DNA but had culturally adapted to Aryan culture. However, the Asian Aryans were rarely if ever the light blonde, light eyed type reminiscent of Slavs and non Celtic Western Europeans
This research would have made Hitler's day because he never claimed that blonde haired, blue eyed people are in any way superior. He claimed that the Aryans (modern day iranians, Pakistanis, Afghanis and North Indians who contributed little to the European genetic pool) were far superior to the European tribes of pre Roman times. However, he claimed that an Aryan invasion had taken place (most Western European languages are descent from sanskrit) and the Europeans adopted and adapted to Aryan high culture. This gave them an organizational boost that he attributed to the positive impact a small group of highly organized populations could have on populations of lower civilization and capabilities. By using the Ashkenazi myth of Palestinian ancestory for his own means, Hitler proclaimed the alleged absence of any Aryan DNA in Jews as sufficient evidence of their inherent inability to hold "Aryan values".
I'm Ashkenazi and my Y haplotype is J1. The Ashkenazi "myth" of Palestinian ancestry has been proven by current science. J1's are found mostly in Palestinian Arabs, Negev Bedouins, Yemenis, Kurds etc. It is almost never found in Europe. And you know far too much about Hitler's thinking.
Your reading of Hitler's take on Aryanism is wrong. The Aryan myth is the product of the British Colonial government in India - who presented themselves as the missing legendary Aryan tribe, thus the highest caste and natural rulers. The myth matured in Europe, fostering a belief that this legendary tribe were all blonde haired blue eyed nordics. Had Hitler known the truth - he would have made up a different story.
western european languages are not "descended" from sanskrit. they are descended from proto-indo-european, as is sanskrit. proto-indo europeans ("aryans") originated probably somewhere in the caucasus or eastern europe. those whose language would become sanskrit migrated to the indus basin/himalayas. those whose language would become greek migrated to that peninsula. those whose language would become germanic migrated to scandinavia. those whose language would become celtic migrated to the alps, and so on. there is no record of their original shared language or what they looked like, and there is no certainty on where they came from.
Who knew??