by Mike Gray

One of the supreme ironies of history would be if Hitler, who regarded all non-Aryans as inferior “mongrels” at best, actually was Jewish. The London Daily Telegraph recently reported on samples taken from his relatives:

Saliva samples taken from 39 relatives of the Nazi leader show he may have had biological links to the “subhuman” races that he tried to exterminate during the Holocaust.

. . . [the] Haplogroup E1b1b1 which showed up in their samples is rare in Western Europe and is most commonly found in the Berbers of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, as well as among Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews.

“This is a surprising result,” said Ronny Decorte, a genetic specialist at 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. Hitler’s concern over his descent was not unjustified. He was apparently not pure or ‘Ayran’.”

As the article notes, this isn’t the first time Hitler’s lineage has been called into question.