A farmer in the Waldviertel region of Austria is known to be a cousin of the German dictator. (To protect his privacy, the name of the cousin is never made public.) The cousin gave researchers a sample of his saliva. Since this cousin shares the same male ancestry as Adolf Hitler, the two presumably have the same Y-chromosome DNA.
The particular form of the DNA - Haplopgroup E1b1b (Y-DNA) - is rare in Germany and indeed western Europe. It is most commonly found in the Berbers of Morocco, in Algeria, Libya and Tunisia as well as among Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews.
"One can from this postulate that Hitler was related to people whom he despised," said journalist Jean-Paul Mulders in the magazine.
You can read more at http://tinyurl.com/37kv6gj39 other distant relatives of Hitler have been identified but, again, their names are never revealed.
My thanks to Robert L. Landau for telling me about this article.
