A new forensic genetic analysis featured in Channel 4’s documentary Hitler’s DNA: Blueprint of a Dictator is offering unprecedented scientific insight into Adolf Hitler’s biological and medical history. Using DNA recovered from blood-stained cloth taken from the sofa where Hitler died in 1945, researchers suggest he may have had multiple sexual-development abnormalities, including the possibility of a micropenis, an undescended testicle and Kallmann syndrome, a condition that disrupts hormonal development and puberty. The findings challenge long-circulated rumours while shedding fresh light on aspects of his life long shrouded in speculation. The genetic analysis indicates that Hitler likely carried markers associated with Kallmann syndrome, a congenital condition that affects reprodu

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