Some historians have claimed that Adolf Hitler's father, Alois Hitler, pictured above, was the illegitimate offspring of a maid named Maria Schickelgruber and a Jewish man whose last name was Frankenberger.
DNA studies done in 2010 of 39 living descendents of Alois Hitler reveal that they have a chromosome group called Haplogroup E1b1b1, which is rare among western Europeans but is common in Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews.
Adolf Hitler, if he did have one Jewish grandparent, would have been defined as a Jew under the Nazi racial purity laws and legally would have eligible for the same treatment provided by the Nazis to all other Jews.
Did Adolf Hitler actually have a Jewish grandfather? It certainly appears possible, but we will probably never know for sure. There are certainly other carriers of the Haplogroup E1b1b1 chromosome group who are not of Jewish descent. One of them is pictured below.
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