DNA Evidence Suggests Hitler May Have Married Woman of Jewish Descent

A documentary series on Britain’s Channel 4 reveals that Adolf Hitler‘s wife, Eva Braun, had Jewish ancestry, a conclusion drawn from DNA samples the show Dead Famous DNA believes to be Braun’s.

They tested hair samples from a brush that was apparently used by Braun, and the DNA sample they examined revealed a striking similarity to a sequence “strongly associated” with Ashkenazi Jews.

However, there is a twist.

Although programme-makers said the provenance of the hair was strong, the only way to prove beyond doubt that it was from Braun would have been to take a DNA swab from one of her two surviving female descendants, but both refused when approached, so there is still an element of mystery.

So only time and further DNA analysis will tell, then…

Channel 4 came under fire last week for paying a Holocaust denier a sizable amount of money for a lock of the Führer’s own hair for the show.

[h/t Haaretz]
[photo via screengrab]

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