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The thread’s main topic is claims that Nazi leader Hitler may have had biological links to groups he targeted for extermination, based on DNA analysis of saliva from 39 relatives conducted by a journalist and historian. The key question implied by the post is how a specific rare haplogroup found among the relatives could be interpreted geographically or ethnically, and whether that evidence is meaningful. Overall sentiment is shock and skepticism, focusing on the startling genetic finding rather than providing detailed methodological discussion in the excerpt provided.

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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.


Jean-Paul Mulders, a Belgian journalist, and Marc Vermeeren, a historian, tracked down the Fuhrer’s relatives, including an Austrian farmer who was his cousin, earlier this year.

A chromosome called 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. :shocked:
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