Overview
- The analysis used a bloodstained fragment cut from the Berlin bunker sofa in 1945 by an Allied soldier who kept the fabric as a souvenir.
- Researchers report genetic findings consistent with Kallmann syndrome after sequencing DNA recovered from the fabric.
- The team says authenticity checks included a Y‑chromosome match with a living male relative of Hitler.
- The reported condition aligns with a 1923 Landsberg prison record noting right cryptorchidism and with clinical features such as low or fluctuating testosterone and, in a minority of cases, micropenis.
- King says ancestry testing found no Jewish lineage and stresses the results do not excuse Hitler’s crimes, noting she took on the work after other labs declined and that the findings are being presented in a Channel 4 documentary.