Post Lavrov: Did Hitler really have Jewish origins?

The delayed "Press Conference" by Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, was rather disappointing. Honestly, anyone who follows the Russian-Ukrainian affair with a little bit of Russian politics could have anticipated the answers with precision. The only point that caused a bit of surprise and turmoil was when, after allegations of Nazism in Ukraine and the presenter pointing out that Zelensky was of the Jewish religion, Lavrov claimed that there was nothing to it. be amazed because Hitler too had Jewish origins and the greatest anti-Semites were he was Jews.

The phrase appeared very out of place, it provoked reactions in Israel, but it also called into question a little yellow from history: Did Hitler really have Jewish roots?

It all stems from some statements made in the fifties by Hans Frank , Hitler's lawyer, in 1953, therefore after the war. Frank claimed that in the 1930s Hitler, eager to know more about his origins, would have ordered him to conduct investigations which would have shown that his grandfather actually had ethnically Jewish origins.To be more clear, Hitler's father (whose surname was initially Hiedler) would have been the son of an unregulated relationship between Maria Schickelgruber, Adolf's grandmother, and Leopold Frankenberger, a young Jew with whose family Maria was in service. She would later marry Johann Georg Hiedler, whose surname later became Hitler.

So there is a possibility that Adolf's dad had a Jewish father, but it is a possibility, not certainty. As the Latins said “Mater semper certain, pater numquam”, the mother is always certain, the father never. As far as we now know, Adolf's father could have been the son of the milkman who supplied the Frankenberger house.

Recently the Flemish journalist Jean-Paul Mulders was able to determine the so-called "haplogroup" of Adolf Hitler which should reveal the genetic origins of Adolf Hitler. The research was conducted by taking saliva samples from 51 living relatives of the dictator in Austria and the USA. From these samples, Professor Ronny Decorte, a genetics expert at KU Leuven, would have found interesting results, finding traces of Somali, Berber and Ashkenazi Jewish genotypes. Hitler, a seeker of race purity, would not have been happy, but the result is almost obvious: Europe has always been a melting pot of races. We think that with the Roman Empire, migrants from the Middle East and Africa arrived in Europe, willy-nilly. Not even Hitler's progeny could be exempt from this mix.

So was Lavrov right or wrong? We cannot formally know, but objectively yes. The fate of people is not decided by genetics, but by culture and what Catholics call "free will". Everyone is responsible for their actions, whatever the genetic heritage they carry with them.

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