New York – Two Hitler hunters claim to have tracked down 39 relatives of the Nazi leader in the US and Austria.
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Journalist Jean-Paul Mulders and historian Marc Vermeeren, both Belgians, say they have decoded Adolf’s DNA and matched it to discarded cigarette butts in an Austrian village, a used paper napkin from a New York fast food restaurant and letters sent from France more than 30 years ago.
They apparently tracked down three brothers living in Long Island, New York, who are directly descended from Hitler’s father.
The brothers, Louis, Brian and Alexander Stuart-Houston, are said by Mulders and Vermeeren to be the great-grandsons of Hitler’s father Alois.
The two men claim the brothers have entered into a pact never to have children to avoid producing further descendants of the Führer.
They also claim more descendants live in Austria’s Waldviertel region, near where Hitler was born.
Mr Mulders said: “They live under new names which slightly differ from Hitler, such as Hietler, Hiedler or Huetler. Most of them probably don’t know of their relationship.”
The duo’s claims were first published in Spanish newspaper El Mundo.
Last year, a senior academic at an Israeli university claimed to have a “family connection” to Hitler.
Michael Mach of Tel Aviv University said his grandmother had married the Nazi leader’s nephew Hans Hitler after divorcing his grandfather.
Ben Barkow, of the London-based Wiener-Library, an archive of Jewish history, described the investigation as “ghastly”.
What is the purpose of this “investigation”? To tar and harass people who, through no fault of their own are related to the monster? I don’t get it.
I guess the saying ” you can run but you can’t hide ” is still true.
Something doesn’t sound right. “the brothers have entered into a pact never to have children to avoid producing further descendants of the Führer”. Since they are decended from Hitler’s FATHER, they are great nephews of Hitler, not decendants. so I don’t understand it at all.
The three brothers on Long Island have been known for quite a while – the NY Times mentioned them three years ago, and I believe they were first “outed” by an English tabloid about eight or nine years ago. There was a fourth brother who died in an automobile accident – he was an IRS or FBI agent. By all accounts I’ve read they’re ashamed of their connection to their infamous relative and don’t care to discuss it.
What’s next? Should we start tar and feather them? Should we start hunting down Stalin’s descendants too? This is a dangerous game and should be stopped immediately. For those who know that Hitler was their grandparent or great-grandparent, life is probably not so good already. They probably live with the fear that they will be ‘found out’. I am sure MANY are fine upstanding citizens of their respective countries and there is no need to shame them in public for an accident of biology.
H” should watch and protect them from the radicals (Jews and non).
Leave them in peace, it’s enough of a punishment to be related to Hitler by birth.
Hitler himself never had children, but he must have had relatives (cousins etc) who did. I see very little point to this, these people have the misfortune to be related to a monster, that does not make them good, bad or otherwise.
Alois did not know for sure who his father was. Of the three possible candidates- one was Jewish. I agree that it’s not fair to harass any relatives nowadays but some may find it interesting if through their DNA it can be proven that his grandfather was Jewish.
leave tthem alone Good Grief
Were any m’gayer? Haman HaRosha had descendants on the Sanhedrin. Ya never know.
I agree with #1 , and to add more. To deny that there are crazy people, who would harm these individuals, for having a relationship they have no control over, is denying all of human experience.