A customs official and a journalist have managed to decode Adolf Hitler’s DNA, a secert never revealed before, which now allows to genetically identify any relative of the German dictator.
Analyzing forgotten cigarette butts in a small village in Lower Austria, a used paper napkin in a New York fast food restaurant or the seals of letters sent over 30 years ago from northern France, Marc Vermeeren and Jean-Paul Mulders have given with 39 alive relatives of the Führer.
Vermeeren, customs official, say they have found three great-grandchildren of Hitler’s father in Long Island, outside New York, under the false name Stuart-Houston. They are descendants who left Germany to escape the Nazis. This lineage of the Hitler seems to have agreed on not having children to avoid the descent. Louis and Brian share a little wooden house in East Patchogue, where they work as gardeners, while Alexander is a retired psychologist who helped veterans of another war, Vietnam. Also it was impossible to reach them because they don’t respond if someone knocks on the door and they avoid any confrontation with his past.
“They have agreed not to have children to extinguish the saga of the Hitler and stop living in fear, but have promised to publish a book before they died,” says Mulders, journalist of 41 years.
Marc Vermeeren, 51, is also a historian and “amateur” genealogist who is obsessed with the Nazi leader, who piled up in his studio more than 500 biographies of the dictator and 20,000 documents, including his birth certificate.
In Lower Austria, by contrast, the Hitlers have tried to erase their past only by changing a couple of letters of their name, until the got to Hüttler.
“All Hüttler living in the Waldviertel region are distant descendants of Hitler, although many of them do not even know, as it was their parents or grandparents who changed the name and never told them. Vermeeren, also adds that none of the descendants has a resemblance to Adolf.
