In early May 2022, Sergey Lavrov said that Jews were among the leader of Nazi Germany, although he made a reservation that he might be wrong. We checked the reliability of such a version.
On May 1, 2022, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview with the Italian television company Mediaset answered the question of journalists about how combined declared Russia The purpose of the denazification of Ukraine and the Jewish origin of the President of the country Vladimir Zelensky. Lavrov Commented This is: “He (Zelensky. - Approx. Ed.) puts forward an argument: what kind of nationification they have if he is a Jew. I can be mistaken, but Adolf Hitler also had Jewish blood. This means absolutely nothing. The wise Jewish people says that the most ardent anti -Semites are usually Jews. "The family is not without a freak," as we say. "
The statement of the Russian minister caused a sharp discontent of the Israeli leadership. The country's prime minister is naphthylinnett He emphasizedthat "such a lie is aimed at accusing the Jews themselves of the most terrible crimes in the history that were committed against them, and thereby the liberation of the oppressors of the Jews from responsibility." Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid He called it Lavrov’s statements “unforgivable and outrageous”: “The lowest level of racism against Jews is to blame them for anti -Semitism.” Lapid also CALL Anatoly Viktorova, with whom he held a “hard conversation” to the Ministry of the Russian Ambassador to Israel. The statement of Minister Lavrov was not left without the attention of the Russian Jewish community. The main rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar declared: "I do not consider myself the right to give advice to the head of Russian diplomacy, but it would be nice if he apologized to the Jews and simply recognized his mistake."
The ground for various discussions about the origin of the leader of Nazi Germany was given by gaps in his genealogy. The father of the future Fuhrer Alois was born Out of legal marriage and for quite some time Wore The name of her mother, Maria Anna Shiklgraber. Subsequently, she married Johann George Hydler, and Alois was given to her more secured brother her wife Johann Nepomuk Guttler (in the documents of that time, the surname was written differently). He, together with Maria Anna Shiklgruber, later insisted that Johann George was the biological father of the boy; The relevant information was listed in the metric book. Alois Shiklgruber changed his last name only at the beginning of 1877, Adolf Hitler was born 12 years later in the town of Brownau-Inin in the north of modern Austria.

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The version of the Jewish roots of the Fuhrer appeared after the defeat of the Third Reich. Her author - Hans Frank, a lawyer close to Hitler, who during the Second World War served as a governor general in occupied Poland. As a result of his decisions, thousands of Poles were executed or sent to work in Germany, and local Jews were placed in the ghetto. According to the results of the Nuremberg Tribunal, Frank was recognized as a war criminal and hung on October 1, 1946. In anticipation of the execution, he wrote the memoirs “in the face of the gallows” (IM Angesicht des Galgens), first published in 1953.
In his book Frank assertedthat Hitler's consolidated nephew was blackmailing Fuhrer, threatening to reveal his origin. Then Hitler turned to his subordinate with a request to study his pedigree. According to Frank's research, Hitler’s grandmother Maria Anna Shiklgruber allegedly became pregnant when she worked in the Jewish family of Frankenbergers in the Austrian grace. As evidence, Frank gave the alleged correspondence that he had studied between Shiklgruber and Frankenbergers, in which the payment of alimony was discussed. The possible father of Alois was then “appointed” a 19-year-old young man from this family (Maria Anna at that time was 42 years old).
Moreover, according to Frank, Hitler himself doubted the reliability of such a version. Allegedly, the grandmother told him that his grandfather was actually not a Jew from Graz, but Alois's real parents decided to take advantage of the situation and provide the child at the expense of alimony. However, this certificate does not withstand criticism - Maria Anna Shiklgruber died long before the birth of the Fuhrer and could not tell him anything.
The version presented by Frankcom does not find support among scientists. The historian Werner Mazer in 1971 published book, in which he spoke about his attempts to trace Hitler’s genealogy, in particular, according to the documents of the region in which his father Alois was born. The researcher discovered that in the 19th century there were no Jews or family with the surname Frankenberger in Graz. The Mazer did not find Jewish roots either by Hitler’s grandmother or her official husband. Honorary Professor of the University of Sheffield, History Specialist in the first half of the 20th century, Yang Kershaw in his works celebrated: “In the 1830s, there was no Jewish family with the surname Frankenberger in Graz. There lived a family of Frankenraiters, but she was not Jewish. There is no evidence that Maria Anna Shiklgruber has ever been to Graz, not to mention the fact that she worked for Leopold Frankenraiter. ” The scientist also emphasizes that even if this family was in mind, the son of Frankenraiter could not be Hitler’s grandfather - at the time of Alois was born he was ten years old. It is unlikely that Frankenraiters could be the heroes of the story of alimony - the father of the family worked as a simple butcher.
The new round of popularity of this theory began not so long ago. In 2010, the Belgian journalist Jean-Paul Mulder and historian Mark Vermeren talked about research DNA samples taken from several dozen Hitler's relatives. On the results of genetic tests Holded First, the Belgian edition of Knack, and after it other media (for example, the British tabloids of The Telegraph, Daily Mail and The Sun); Now many of these notes are deleted. Based on the results of genetic analysis in the collected materials, the “chromosome haplogroup E1B1B1 was found, which is rarely found in Western Europe and is much more common among the Berbers living in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, as well as in ashkenaz and sephards.” As already earlier It wrote “Verified”, not a single haplogroup indicates any nationality with one hundred percent probability.
In 2019, American psychologist Leonard Sax Published An article in which stated the insolvency of the claim about the absence of Jewish families in the grace of the middle of the 19th century - there was supposedly a small community. This statement was met by criticism by researchers, who, unlike Sax, are engaged in history professionally. Sir Richard Evans, specializing in the history of Germany and retired, who held the post of professor of Cambridge University, He emphasizesthat "even if Jews lived in Graz in the 1830s, this does not prove anything about Hitler's grandfather." Evans also draws attention to that none of the statements of Frank, on which such statements were built in the future, finds confirmation in archival documents and other historical sources.
Thus, among the authoritative specialists involved in the history of Nazi Germany and, in particular, Hitler’s biography, there is an indisputable consensus: there are no documentary evidence that allowing the Jewish roots of the leader of the Third Reich. The lists that the basis of this theory of Hans Frank's statements are not confirmed by any third -party sources and have been repeatedly refuted by historians.
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