Hitler relatives tracked down
Investigative journalists dubbed the “Hitler Hunters” have tracked down 39 relatives of the Nazi dictator living in Lower Austria, it has emerged.
Spanish daily El Mundo claimed their Belgian correspondent Marc Vermeeren and his colleague Jean-Paul Mulders of Het Laatste Nieuws newspaper found them after managing to secure the DNA of one of Hitler’s relatives.
The reporters said they followed three great-grandsons of Hitler’s father Alois who live under the name Stuart-Houston in Long Island near New York for a week.
Vermeeren said Brian and Louis work as gardeners, while Alexander is a retired psychologist.
When Alexander Stuart-Houston – the eldest of the three brothers at 60 – threw a napkin out of a car window after wiping his mouth at a drive-in restaurant, the journalists took samples of his DNA which helped them to trace the other relatives of the Austrian-born dictator.
Mulders said: “Hitler’s other living relatives reside in Lower Austria’s Waldviertel region under new names which slightly differ from Hitler. Most of them probably don’t know of their relationship.
“Hitler’s American relatives agreed not to have children,” he added.
http://www.austriantimes.at/news/General_News/2009-09-14/16338/Hitler_relatives_tracked_down
