Hitler's DNA : Blueprint of a Dictator

"[The testing found a] high likelihood [that Hitler had Kallmann Syndrome and] very high [scores --  the top one percent -- for a predisposition to autism, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder."

"Analysis of the DNA debunks this myth [of Jewish ancestry] by showing that the Y chromosome data matches the DNA of Hitler's male line relative."

"If he had Jewish ancestry [ through an outside relationship], that match wouldn't be there."

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"No one has ever really been able to explain why Hitler was so uncomfortable around women throughout his life, or why he probably never entered into intimate relations with women."

"But now we know that he had Kallmann Syndrome, this could be the answer we've been looking for."

"The discovery of Kallmann syndrome is, for me, personally, as a historian and as somebody who has spent more than 20 years researching the Nazis, a major finding."

"Hitler clearly goes very much against this [his having urged patriotic Germans to have children] in not having any kind of family, in not having children, in not being married."

"He quite effectively cultivates the image of a man devoted entirely to the fatherland. Our discovery strongly suggests that it may have been only a convenient cover for his Kallmann Syndrome [and despite his relationship with Eva Braun]." 

Alex Kay, historian, University of Potsdam 

 

 

Symptoms of Kallmann Syndrome

Symptoms usually become obvious in the teenage years because puberty doesn't start as expected. Common signs include:

In males:

• Delayed or absent puberty
• Very little facial or body hair
• Small testicles or penis (micropenis may be present from birth)
• Undescended testicles

Adolf Hitler and  his mistress Eva Braun  /  Archives, Getty Images

 

Researchers and documentary producers revealed several days ago, the interesting news of current research results following on DNA testing of the blood of the fascist Nazi dictator, Adolf Hitler. An international team of scientists and  historians collaborated on this research and appear to confirm historical suspicions with respect to the man's sexual development. A new documentary, Hitler's DNA :Blueprint of a Dictator, is based on those findings, soon to be broadcasted.

Researchers had obtained a sample of Hitler's blood that had spilled over on his suicide onto a sofa he was seated on before shooting himself in his underground bunker. A piece of material from that sofa was made available for the DNA research, and from it, the scientists were satisfied that they had identified a relatively rare genetic miscarriage, which though incidental to his manic psychopathy -- which was itself beyond complex -- was still an interesting piece to the puzzle of this netherworld monster.

The research team were at pains to point out, was that the condition itself was entirely divorced from Hitler's virulent racism, much less his penchant for war-mongering. Possibly, there might have been a connection to his fascination with the perfect Nordic specimen, his elevation of humanity in the model of the Aryan master race, as a kind of psychological compensation for his rather less than perfect personal genetic typology. 

 

There is also the possibility of his interior subconscious rage at his presumed condition leading him to direct that people of inferior, 'subhuman' (those who were physically or mentally challenged) status be liquidated. A category he ascribed to Jews as well as those whose conditions were verifiably not up to his exacting standards. 

 

Absurdly, Hitler declared the Japanese to be honourary Aryans (unlike those of Indo-Iranian genetic stock who are actually Aryans), as members of the Fascist Axis. But unlike Fascist Germany, Japan had no quarrel with the Jews that Hitler targeted for extinction, and went out of their way to save many Jews desperate to escape the burgeoning charnel house of Europe; Japan obliged by sending thousands to Japanese-occupied China for haven with visas issued by Consul Chiune Sugihara. 

A group of Jews, including a small boy, is escorted from the Warsaw Ghetto by German soldiers in this April 19, 1943 photo. The picture formed part of a report from SS Gen. Stroop to his Commanding Officer, and was introduced as evidence to the War Crimes trials in Nuremberg in 1945  AP Photo

 

World War II saw the deaths of over 50 million people. Among that 50 million, six million Jews who were systematically murdered in an historical atrocity of vast proportions directed by Hitler personally, and finding support throughout Germany and much of Europe, when German occupation and complicit local nationals worked in harmony to rid the world of the pestilence of Jewish existence. Roma, Gays, political dissidents and the mentally and physically handicapped were also scheduled for eradication by the Third Reich.

 

As geneticist Turi King who had identified the remains of medieval king Richard III pointed out, Hitler's genetic blueprint placed him in a category of people who were frequently sent to the gas chambers, though not quite with the same dedicated eagerness as was reserved for the eradication of Europe's Jews. 

 

Geneticist Turi King (left) and historian Alex Kay both appear in the new documentary on Hitler.

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"This is also not just a documentary but an academic paper."

"We are at great, great pain not to stigmatize people with these conditions, because, you know … it’s incredibly rare that people with these conditions go on to commit violent acts."

"And the other thing is that Hitler did not act alone, he had hundreds and thousands of people who helped him."

"They’re not all going to have the same genetic makeup as him. His genetics is just a small, small puzzle piece."  

Turi King, professor, University of Bath, United Kingdom