The Nazi dictator had Kallmann syndrome, which hinders normal puberty and the development of sexual organs, according to groundbreaking research

The Nazi dictator had Kallmann syndrome, which hinders normal puberty and the development of sexual organs, according to groundbreaking research

  • Kirp123@lemmy.world
    6·
    8 hours ago

    I would be curious where they got it from. After Hitler killed himself, his and Eva Braun’s remains were burned by his adjutant. Some dental remains were found at the spot which matched Hitler’s dental records and which are the only confirmed remains of his body. The Soviets claimed to have found more remains that they exhumed and taken away. They also claimed those were later destroyed and all that was kept was a skull and a jawbone. This is more likely false since eyewitnesses to the burning of the body stated that only ashes remained.

    Looking at sources it does seem that the skull fragment was found in the Soviet archives in the 90s and early 2000s and was DNA tested against blood collected from the couch were Hitler apparently committed suicide. The skull came back as containing female DNA while the blood contained male DNA.

    So the only two sources of potential DNA for Hitler are his teeth remains and the blood collected from that couch but I’m wondering how do they know that the blood was Hitler’s and not someone else’s? A lot of other people committed suicide around the same time as Hitler or soon after.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
      13·
      8 hours ago

      Edit: I see, you saw the couch thing. You probably mean that we don’t know where it was for those 80 years.

      Edit 2:

      Work had already been done in this area. In 2008, a Belgian journalist called Jean-Paul Mulders had debunked a story about a potential Hitler descendant. In doing so, Mulders found a relative of Hitler who shared a common paternal ancestor: a straight line of male ancestry meant that their Y chromosome would be identical.

      When this sample was compared with the blood from the Rosengren swatch, the match was perfect. With no risk of cross-contamination, it had to be Hitler’s DNA. The 80-year-old sample is as degraded as it should be and this type of Y chromosome is rare, making the chances of a mistake all the more remote.