By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

Adolf Hitler, who murdered six million people in his quest to produce a “master race,” is now believed to have had the same so-called “tainted” blood as the “subhumans” he tried to eradicate in World War II. 

Haartz.com is reporting that a new study published in Belgium this week found that saliva samples taken from 39 relatives of the Fuhrer show that he had genetics links to both Africans and Jews.

The new study, published in the Flemish-language magazine Knack, was conducted by Jean-Paul Mulders, a Belgian journalist, and Marc Vermeeren, a historian, who tracked down Hitler’s living relatives in his native Austria. 

Geneticists are able to identify groups of chromosomes known as haplogroups – a kind of “genetic fingerprint” that defines populations – and found that Hitler’s dominant haplogroup, E1b1b1, was present in his relatives’ samples. E1b1b1 is relatively rare in Western Europe and is found in between 50 and 80 percent of North Africans, especially among the Berber tribes of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Somalia.

Even more surprising is that Hitler’s second most dominant haplogroup is most commonly found in Ashkenazi Jews and is one of the major founding lineages of the Jewish population.

“One can from this postulate that Hitler was related to people whom he despised,” Mr. Mulders wrote.

“This is a surprising result,” said Ronny Decorte, a genetic specialist at the Catholic University of Leuven to London’s Telegraph. “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’.”

This is not the first time historians have found a link between Hitler and Jews he so heartlessly massacred during the war. 

Hitler’s father, Alois, is thought to have been the illegitimate offspring of a maid called Maria Schickelgruber and a 19-year-old Jewish man named Frankenberger.

As a result of this study, researchers are now planning to petition the Russian government to release a human jawbone wrapped in a blood-soaked cloth that was retrieved from the bunker where Hitler killed himself at the end of the war in order to continue genetic testing of the Fuhrer.

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