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Geneticists identify groups of chromosomes called haplogroups, 'genetic fingerprints' that define populations.
...Hitler's dominant haplogroup, E1b1b, is relatively rare in Western Europe - but strongest in some 25 percent of Greeks and Sicilians, who apparently acquired the genes from Africa: Between 50 percent and 80 percent of North Africans share Hitler's dominant group, which is especially prevalent among in the Berber tribes of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, and Somalis.
...Hitler's second most dominant haplogroup is the most common in Ashkenazi Jews.
DNA tests reveal Hitler's Jewish and African roots
Seeded on Tue Aug 24, 2010 2:31 PM EDT
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I'd always heard rumors that Hitler had Jewish roots. But African? How bizarre and ironic!
#1 - Tue Aug 24, 2010 2:34 PM EDTSome people need someone or everyone to hate.DNA is not going stop the person, of how they are feeling about someone or something.
#2 - Wed Aug 25, 2010 1:59 AM EDTYou know how people have started blaming black people for slavery, by saying that it was Africans that sold their own people to the white Europeans? I wonder if we'll now start hearing that since Hitler was Jewish, that Jews are responsible for the holocaust.
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