DNA Testing Suggests Hitler Likely Had A Micropenis, Undescended Testicles

Tests on material said to contain Hitler’s blood suggest a genetic disorder affecting sexual development, while also ruling out rumours of Jewish ancestry. (IMAGE: REUTERS)

German dictator Adolf Hitler most likely suffered from the genetic condition Kallmann Syndrome, researchers and documentary makers said on Thursday. DNA testing on material containing the Nazi leader’s blood also found that Hitler did not have Jewish ancestry.

A report by news agency AFP noted that while popular World War II songs often mocked Hitler’s anatomy, such claims had no scientific basis until now.

“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,” said Alex Kay of the University of Potsdam.

“But now that we know he had Kallmann Syndrome, this could be the answer we’ve been looking for,” he was quoted as saying by the news agency.

The findings by the international team of scientists and historians are featured in a new documentary, “Hitler’s DNA: Blueprint of a Dictator”, due to broadcast on Sunday.

The DNA results additionally rule out the possibility that Hitler had a Jewish grandfather via his grandmother, who was rumoured to have got pregnant by an employer in whose house she worked.

“Analysis of the DNA debunks this myth 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,” the production company added.

Geneticist Turi King, known for identifying the remains of medieval king Richard III and who also worked on the project, said Hitler’s genes put him in a category of people who were often sent to the gas chambers by the Nazis.

“Hitler’s policies are completely around eugenics,” said the expert in ancient and forensic DNA at the University of Bath in western England.

“If he had been able to look at his own DNA… he almost certainly would have sent himself,” she said.

The testing also found a “high likelihood” that Hitler had Kallmann Syndrome and “very high” scores — in the top one percent — for a predisposition to autism, schizophrenia and biopolar disorder, programme makers Blink Films said.

The research team stressed that such conditions, however, could not explain or excuse Hitler’s warmongering or racist policies.

Over 50 million people are estimated to have died in World War II, including six million Jews were who were systematically murdered.