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Berlin: The suggestion by Russia's foreign minister that Adolf Hitler had Jewish blood is just the latest version of a conspiracy theory exploiting a gap in the ...

“Jews did not murder themselves in the Holocaust,” Lapid added. Frank claimed to have discovered that, at the time, she was employed as a cook for a Jewish family by the name of Frankenberger, in the Austrian city of Graz. Frank said Hitler had told him that actually his grandmother and her future husband had let the Jewish man think he was the father in order to get the money out of him. “This must have been towards the end of the 1930s,” wrote Frank, in an extract published by Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine at the time. Sandgruber, who last year published the first biography of Alois Hitler, explained that the rumours first began circulating in the 1920s, as Adolf Hitler began his rise to power. Berlin: The suggestion by Russia’s foreign minister that Adolf Hitler had Jewish blood is just the latest version of a conspiracy theory exploiting a gap in the dictator’s ancestry.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov cited an often-debunked claim about Hitler's ancestry. Here's where that story comes from.

His study, arguing that more credence should be given to Frank’s account, was published in the Journal of European Studies. To top it off, the son of Frankenreiter — the alleged grandfather — would only have been 10 when Alois was born. Frank claimed that he discovered that Hitler’s paternal grandmother, Maria Anna Schicklgruber, gave birth in 1937 to Hitler’s father, Alois, while working as a cook for a Jewish family in Graz, a city in Austria. Schicklgruber was 42 at the time. Hitler cited his grandmother as a source of the story — but she had died 40 years before he was born.) During Hitler’s rise to power, the missing information about his grandfather led to speculation about a possible Jewish ancestry. The source of this story stems from a documented fact: Hitler’s father was born out of wedlock and Hitler’s grandfather has never been revealed.

Israel lambasted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday for claiming Adolf Hitler had Jewish origins, saying it was an "unforgivable" falsehood ...

"Or perhaps they have never learned those lessons." Dani Dayan, chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust, said the Russian minister was spreading "an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory with no basis in fact". "This means that the Russian leadership has forgotten all the lessons of World War Two," he said. Zelensky, in his nightly video message, noted Moscow has been silent since Lavrov's comments. "The use of the Holocaust of the Jewish people for political purposes must stop immediately," he added. Israel lambasted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday for claiming Adolf Hitler had Jewish origins, saying it was an "unforgivable" falsehood that debased the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust.