Hitler's wife Eva Braun may have had Jewish ancestry: documentary

[gameboy1977]

 

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's wife Eva Braun may have been of Jewish descent according to DNA analysis carried out for a British television documentary, the makers said Saturday.

The anti-Semitic German leader responsible for the Holocaust married his long-term lover Braun shortly before they committed suicide in a Berlin bunker in 1945.

But the programme to be screened by Britain's independent Channel 4 on Wednesday said hair samples show Braun may have had Jewish ancestry herself.

Scientists commissioned by the Dead Famous DNA programme tested hair said to have come from a brush used by Braun and found at Hitler's mountain retreat.

In DNA from the hair, they found a sequence passed down through the maternal line -- haplogroup N1b1 -- which was "strongly associated" with Ashkenazi Jews.

Ashkenazi Jews dispersed into central and eastern Europe in the early Middle Ages, and some converted to Catholicism in Germany in the 19th century.

"This is a thought-provoking outcome -- I never dreamt that I would find such a potentially extraordinary and profound result," presenter Mark Evans said.

The hairs came from a monogrammed hairbrush found at Hitler's Bavarian residence by American army intelligence officer Paul Baer, a US 7th Army captain, who had privileged access to the property and took a number of items from Braun's private apartment.

Photographs taken at Berghof in 1945 show him with the hairbrush.

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[jackergin]

Wow... That is just unthinkable to me.....

[theyarecomingforyou]

Wow... That is just unthinkable to me.....

Hardly. Hitler was a proponent of the Aryan race, of which the Nords (blonde hair, blue eyes) were considered genetically superior to the other four sub-races (Mediterranean, Dinaric, Alpine and East Baltic), despite himself having brown hair.

[Torolol]

Hitler himself was a half-jewish.

[Turk.]

There is no superior or inferior races, they are all same sheet, but lots racist mis disinfo here.

Eva Braun was a too hot blondie for H, it is a different topic, though.

[+Warwagon MVC]

Ah Hitler, the man who single handedly forever ruined a certain type of mustash.

[siah1214]

 Ah Hitler, the man who single handedly forever ruined a certain type of mustash.

that mustache was never NOT ruined, the only good thing Hitler did was permanently kill it.

 

Hitler himself was a half-jewish.

Urban legend.

[Knife Party]

I don't get why being jewish is such a big scandal...

[Nashy]

I don't get why being jewish is such a big scandal...

 

In this instance.... really?

[Turk.]

Her Jewish side might be arguably, but: Eva would have anonymously been hit >millions times and #1st most liked post on all of Neowin without any signature or promo. :)