Overview
- Channel 4’s documentary presents a whole-genome profile reconstructed from a bloodstained sofa fragment removed from Hitler’s bunker in 1945.
- Sequencing identified a PROK2 gene mutation consistent with Kallmann syndrome, which can impair puberty and sexual development.
- The genetic finding aligns with 1923 Landsberg prison records noting right-sided cryptorchidism in Hitler.
- Ancestry analysis found no evidence of a Jewish paternal ancestor, countering a long-circulating rumor about Hitler’s lineage.
- Researchers reported very high genetic risk percentiles for autism, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, while stressing that such scores do not permit diagnosis or explain his crimes.