DHAKA: Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s wife Eva Braun may have been of Jewish descent according to DNA analysis carried out for a British television documentary.
The makers said Saturday, reports The Straits Times.
The anti-Semitic German leader responsible for the Holocaust married his long-term lover Braun shortly before they committed suicide in a Berlin bunker in 1945.
But the programme to be screened by Britain’s independent Channel 4 on Wednesday said hair samples show Braun may have had Jewish ancestry herself.
Scientists commissioned by the Dead Famous DNA programme tested hair said to have come from a brush used by Braun and found at Hitler’s mountain retreat.
BDST: 1929 HRS, APR 05, 2014