Social media was buzzing this week with the sensational announcement that a study of Hitler’s DNA revealed he suffered from a rare genetic sexual disorder called Kallmann Syndrome. Kallmann syndrome is a disorder of the hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal (HPG) axis, the hormonal system that governs puberty, fertility, and sex hormone production. Sufferers have an impaired ability to produce GnRH, the brain hormone that triggers puberty, resulting in symptoms like delayed sexual development, low testosterone, infertility, and in some cases undescended testicles and a reduced sense of smell.
A striking claim, and predictably it has spread like wildfire online. Headlines framed it as a scientific breakthrough that “explains” Hitler’s personality or alleged sexual pathology. The mainstream media stoked this sensationalism to a great degree, running with headlines about a study supposedly “proving” Hitler had a micropenis, despite that trait only belonging to a minority of Kallmann patients anyway.
Firstly, I am not among the chorus of deniers who say this DNA does not belong to Hitler. Researchers studied DNA from a blood spatter taken from the couch Hitler shot himself on, later cut out of the couch and stored by a U.S. Army Officer. Though we do not yet have a peer-reviewed, documented chain of custody or authentication, the DNA has been matched to the unique familial E1b haplogroup of Hitler’s male relatives. Hitler shooting himself in that room is well-attested to by the people there, so while not yet definitive I am pretty satisfied they really were studying Hitler’s DNA.
But the genetics behind Kallmann syndrome are far more complex than the coverage suggests — and once you examine the actual research on the relevant genes, the sensational interpretation falls apart almost immediately.
The study lead, Jean King, gave away a grave error in an interview on her study, which you can watch here. At about the 9:33 point, it is noted that “there are five genes… noted to be associated with Kallmann’s, and we’ve got a deletion in one… in that PROK2 gene.”
The problem is that this statement reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of how PROK2 actually functions in Kallmann syndrome. King speaks as if Kallmann is a straightforward “one gene, one mutation” disorder — implying that a single deletion in any one of the five associated genes is enough to produce the disease. But this simply isn’t true, and all the scientific literature I have found on Kallmann’s is explicit on this point.
A 2007 PNAS study examined a family in which several siblings had Kallmann syndrome and were found to carry a homozygous loss-of-function mutation (meaning both copies of the gene were broken) in the PROK2 gene. Crucially, another brother who was completely healthy had only one broken copy of the gene, and the parents also carried just one broken copy — yet neither of them showed any symptoms. This pattern showed that a single PROK2 mutation is typically not sufficient to cause the disorder. The authors concluded that the disease phenotype appeared either when both PROK2 alleles were mutated or when one mutated allele interacted with defects in other genes involved in GnRH neuronal development:
Combined with our data, it appears that two mutated PROK2 alleles are needed to cause nIHH/KS. Alternatively, additional gene defect(s) could synergize with one mutated PROK2 allele to cause nIHH/KS.[1]Abreu, Ana Paula, Ericka Barbosa Trarbach, Margaret de Castro, Elaine Maria Frade Costa, Beatriz Versiani, Maria Tereza Matias Baptista, Heraldo Mendes Garmes, Berenice Bilharinho Mendonca, and Ana Claudia Latronico. “Loss-of-function mutations in the genes encoding prokineticin-2 or prokineticin receptor-2 cause autosomal recessive Kallmann syndrome.” The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 93, no. 10 (2008): 4113-4118.
A 2008 study in the European Journal of Human Genetics expanded on these findings by examining a large group of patients with Kallmann syndrome. The researchers found that the people who clearly had the disorder were those who carried two damaged copies of the PROK2 gene, while individuals with only one damaged copy (like Hitler) were usually completely healthy. In fact, many of these single-copy carriers inherited their PROK2 variant from their fertile parents who had no symptoms at all — strong evidence that a lone mutation does not reliably cause the condition.
The authors conclude with the prediction that:
patients carrying monoallelic mutations in PROK2 have another disease-causing mutation, presumably in still undiscovered Kallmann syndrome genes.[2]Leroy, Chrystel, Corinne Fouveaut, Sandrine Leclercq, Sébastien Jacquemont, Hélène Du Boullay, James Lespinasse, Marc Delpech, Jean-Michel Dupont, Jean-Pierre Hardelin, and Catherine Dodé. “Biallelic mutations in the prokineticin-2 gene in two sporadic cases of Kallmann syndrome.” European Journal of Human Genetics 16, no. 7 (2008): 865-868.
Finally, a recent 2023 study looked at patients with various pituitary hormonal problems and screened them for mutations in the PROK2 genes. What they found fits perfectly with the other two studies: people with only one damaged copy of PROKR2 often showed no symptoms at all, while others showed mild or highly variable hormonal issues that did not match full Kallmann syndrome.
The argument of the researchers is that PROKR2 variants have a more complex inheritance pattern beyond Kallmann’s, many single-copy mutations simply “lower the threshold” for hormonal dysfunction (perhaps there is a link here to Hitler’s reported undescended testicle, but it certainly does not point to Kallmann’s.) Crucially though, PROKR2 mutations frequently appear in completely healthy individuals, and mouse models only show clear disease when both copies are disrupted:
For instance, heterozygous PROKR2 mutations have been reported in patients with IHH, and in many of these patients, the variants were inherited from an asymptomatic parent. An alternative possibility for this variable phenotype of PROKR2 may be the dominant negative effect of some variants on the normal allele but this mechanism is unlikely to account for the deleterious effect of all missense alterations, as many of them have also been found in healthy individuals.[3]Kardelen, Aslı Derya, Adam Najaflı, Firdevs Baş, Birsen Karaman, Güven Toksoy, Şükran Poyrazoğlu, Şahin Avcı et al. “PROKR2 mutations in patients with short stature who have isolated growth hormone deficiency and multiple pituitary hormone deficiency.” Journal of Clinical Research in Pediatric Endocrinology 15, no. 4 (2023): 338.
So every serious study we have on PROK2 and PROKR2 shows that one mutation isn’t enough to give someone Kallmann Syndrome. You need two defective copies, or other defective genes related to pubertal development, before Kallmann syndrome reliably appears. And many perfectly normal, fertile people walk around with the same kind of single-copy mutations reported in Hitler. Given that this finding came from professional geneticists, it seems like a stunning misinterpretation of their own findings, which have now been inflated even more by the media.
There may be many other interesting findings from the study of Hitler’s DNA, like his reported high tendency toward disorders like autism and schizophrenia, but the author studies have undermined all of this with the fundamental misinterpretation at the heart of their most sensational claim.
Notes
[1] Abreu, Ana Paula, Ericka Barbosa Trarbach, Margaret de Castro, Elaine Maria Frade Costa, Beatriz Versiani, Maria Tereza Matias Baptista, Heraldo Mendes Garmes, Berenice Bilharinho Mendonca, and Ana Claudia Latronico. “Loss-of-function mutations in the genes encoding prokineticin-2 or prokineticin receptor-2 cause autosomal recessive Kallmann syndrome.” The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 93, no. 10 (2008): 4113-4118.
[2] Leroy, Chrystel, Corinne Fouveaut, Sandrine Leclercq, Sébastien Jacquemont, Hélène Du Boullay, James Lespinasse, Marc Delpech, Jean-Michel Dupont, Jean-Pierre Hardelin, and Catherine Dodé. “Biallelic mutations in the prokineticin-2 gene in two sporadic cases of Kallmann syndrome.” European Journal of Human Genetics 16, no. 7 (2008): 865-868.
[3] Kardelen, Aslı Derya, Adam Najaflı, Firdevs Baş, Birsen Karaman, Güven Toksoy, Şükran Poyrazoğlu, Şahin Avcı et al. “PROKR2 mutations in patients with short stature who have isolated growth hormone deficiency and multiple pituitary hormone deficiency.” Journal of Clinical Research in Pediatric Endocrinology 15, no. 4 (2023): 338.
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Every major anti-Semite of history or warrior against Jewry (Haman/Antiochus Epiphanes/Caligula/Nero/Crowley/Hitler/Rockwell) the Jews will defame after their death with absurd scurrilous fabrications.
I’d like to thank Tucker Carlson for his article about Hitler and his micro-penis. I think he wrote it intending to prove that, see, “I’m not Hitler because I have a functioning penis”. I appreciate Tucker’s dilemna, having been born in Germany therefore having to bear the guilt of my Nazi forefathers. It’s the ski at the end of my name that has allowed me to escape a lot of name calling, almost as much as it has been the cause of much name calling.
That’s a good article, lots of good information, but really the micro penis claim is just the latest crap, it’ll never end but it’s kind of interesting to see the latest, I wonder what the next one will be.
there is a direct line from Holocaust Denial to – in Hitler’s case – Microdick Denial. Also,
it is rumor’d that Hitler’s left testicle is alive and well in Argentina, or maybe Brazil:
Some funny comments are bound to be stimulated by this article. But seriously, I have often wondered what might be the scariest thing there is about the Moustache Man. There were 22 major war criminals tried at Nuremberg. Douglas Kelley diagnosed Robert Ley with organic brain damage. Then, Ley committed suicide, and his autopsy confirmed that the damaged part of his brain was exactly where Kelley said they would find it. The others were all apparently determined to be “sane” enough to stand trial. There was some controversy about Rudolf Hess, who acted like he was nutty as a peanut farm. But pressure from above apparently coerced a verdict that he was “faking” amnesia and other symptoms. Long afterwards, many admitted (including Churchill, I believe) that Hess was probably a “medical case”. At any rate, none of them actually escaped by virtue of “insanity”. So, what was the scariest thing about Moustache Man? Of course, he was paranoid. What rabid ideologue in his position wouldn’t be. And, his dubiously orthodox doctor was apparently pumping him up with a long term regimen of amphetamines–a known cause of psychosis. There have always been streams of ‘armchair’ psychiatric and genetic theories offered up to explain these loons, including Mr. Moustache himself. But I think Douglas Kelley (in fact, I’m pretty sure) discovered the most horrifying truth. It’s the same ‘truth’ that Hannah Arendt apparently recognized. The scariest thing is that, had it not been for the bizarre sociopolitical movement into which they plummeted, almost all of them would have been considered ‘normal’. That’s a scary thought, and the ‘cure’ probably died with Douglas Kelley.
Micropenis aside, he probably had more balls than most politicians these days. As far the the next revelation: I’ve been hearing lately that all the Wehrmacht soldiers were juiced up on meth-amphetamines to boost their performance. How is that just coming out now? More manufactured BS?
Thanks Keith Woods, you’re the best Internet expert on modern politics, anthropology, international finance, WWII history, and genetic disorders in humans. Is there any field or subject you’re not an expert in?
No, it’s not manufactured BS. It has been well known and well documented for years. In fact, the US military was doing the same thing. Methamphetamine was available in the USA “over the counter” until the late 1950’s. Truck-stops sold nasal inhalers with methamphetamine so drivers could stay awake. They looked like Vicks inhalers. You can find out about this stuff on some of the sites that publish medical abstracts. At least fifteen or twenty years ago, I read articles about this which were listed on Pub Med. If your kids are taking Ritalin or Adderal, they’re being subjected to a similarly questionable medical intervention. Scary, ain’t it?
Quoting Cankles, “What difference does it make?”
Hitler DID have the jew syndrome, tho — advancing their agenda to the jew victory over the gentiles.
They Saved Hitler’s Cock
Video Link
They saved Hitler’s cock
They hid it under a rock
I discovered it last night
I couldn’t even believe my eyes
If Hitler’s cock could start to talk
It would say to kill today
If Hitler’s cock could choose its mate
It would ask for Sharon Tate
They saved Hitler’s cock
They stuffed it in Mengele’s sock
They saved Hitler’s cock
And now it wants to talk
Now it’s starting to get hard
I found it in my backyard
Every night it kills a dog
And now it wants some night and fog
Hitler’s cock is on the loose
And now I’m scared of what it wants to do
This story reminds me of the 2015 revelation by a psychiatrist at Mount Sinai Hospital named Rachel Yehuda that trauma can become literally encoded in DNA and can be passed on to the descendants of “holocaust survivors,” ensuring the German gravy train will never stop running.
Obviously it would be antisemitism most foul to deny the science in either case.
They should test the DNA of the Shroud of Turin, and if it has the gene for blue eyes, it would prove that Jesus Christ is Aryan.
These people are like penis astrologers, predicting future politics based on imagined numbers and unmeasured measurements of genitals rather than the movements of stars or tea leaves.
If Hitler’s penis micro or not could according to them explain all of his politics, and even the fictions he’s best known for, then by that logic no politician should be allowed anywhere into office without a thorough penis inspection by a trained astrourologist.
These gay augurs are the personified AIDS of science.
Still unanswered, why did Michelangelo depict King David having an uncircumcised micro penis?
This guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Loret
ran around until the day he died claiming to be Hitler’s son. Supposedly a false claim, according to wiki, but then it’s wiki, so that’s expected. If you read deeper into the entry though, the claim seems not entirely discredited.
Just more of the usual pseudo-scientific Jewish slander against the greatest European to ever live. If we ever make it out of this kosher mess we’re in, it will be, in part, due to Hitler’s achievements.
In German, the saying is Adolf Hitler: Er brachte ganz Europa in andere Umstände
und behauptete ihm sei keiner gewachsen (roughly: He got all of Europe in trouble
and claimed to have no [untranslatable wordplay peer/penis] 😁)
And who really cares if Hitler had a small penis? Just wondering how when a male gets cold 🥶, becomes anxious 😬 or afraid 😳 his penis and deeze nutz shrink anyhow, they said the same thing about Napoleon. IF they examined any dead male even John Holmes would not be at his peak. For decades there was a rumor that gangster John Dillinger’s penis was in a jar at The Smithsonian. The lump visible underneath the blanket covering Dillinger was his arm after rigor mortis had set in.I would imagine all males penis whether they were hung like a mule or a hamster would be at its smallest at death. Anyhow you can’t judge a man’s penis size flaccid, there are (show)ers and growers.
Amateur DNA analysts are almost in universal agreement that AH’s genomic finds be made available for public scrutiny. Get a larger number of analyses in the mix to get a clearer picture and then many conclusions can be solidified. As I understand it, the Kallman Syndrome claim for AH is not based solely on the mutated gene they supposedly discovered, but also medical accounts and personal accounts of Hitler from those who knew him from his early days and when he was a soldier in WW I. So the team was trying to correlate written observations and commentary with the genetic findings. Of note the claim that AH had a Jewish ancestor seems to have been put to rest with this study, grouping him solidly in line with other non-Jewish Austrian Germans. I presume the paternal Y-haplogroup (E1b1b) is of the European V13 variety, which is common to European males, but rare to non-existent in other human groups of that particular clade. said, people need access to this data for further analysis to confirm or disprove the claims this particular group has made about AH.
yeeeaaahhh…
About that? Check your premises.
If Hitler really did make it to South America, as enough evidence to make a History Channel series about it suggests, then the rest of the argument falls flat on its face.
So-called “micropenis” in a German male could mean a number of “gene-related” things; most never understood. That place next door (Denmark) isn’t just a “microcountry” it is also a bastion of small penes (interestingly, the opposite of Norway). And it isn’t everyone, either. And Hitler was of Bavarian stock – nowhere near Schleiswig-Holstein even.
This Kallman syndrome thing is so full of shit.
One has to wonder at the kind of (((officer))) who took that souvenir
(and what he probably did with it).
A. It is bigger than your head, and so I wouldn’t exactly call it a micro-penis.
B. What kind of homo are you?
Interesting read; thank you! Having said that, I think this claim was/is below the belt from the start. But for the sake of argument, let us say the man with the little mustache did what it is said he did because he was ‘allegedly’ not blessed in his downstairs, then what are the Gazanis (and the Palestinians in general) to think – that the disease of not being blessed in the male downstairs is widespread than it is admitted or perhaps even known?
I think it is way past time to call off the dogs, because it is unsustainable to have them out for this long.
Back in the 1970s my outfit was stationed in what was then known as “West Germany”.
I’ll never forget the night when our little group was rubbing elbows with some Germans at a tavern. An inebriated elderly woman spoke about her experiences with one Adolf Hitler going back to the early 1920s (I guess in Munich). Speaking in German, she stated, in a very civilized yet unmistakable way, that the then-future Führer was not only impotent but also circumscribed. There is no way that anything got lost in translation since our unit’s professional interpreter was a German-American linguist. She dropped another bombshell by saying that her maiden name had been something that I recall started with “Gold”, as in “Goldfarb” or “Goldfine” (“Goldfein”?) or some such name of a German Jewess on her maternal side. Hitler, she told us, had later spared her life. He’d had the power over life and death, and if he decided that someone would live, not die, then that’s how it would be, she said. She also mentioned that she had told the Americans about her experiences shortly after the war, so I would think her account might be found in some archive, unless the detail about Hitler’s circumcised member was too much for our censorious overlords and thus got deleted. Maybe some intrepid researcher could try find it.
At the time I was highly skeptical and didn’t make anything of it, but now, after half a century and so much corroborating evidence that has surfaced over the last 50 years, when I think back of that night I very much regret that I didn’t look her up and video record her first hand experience for posterity. Today there’s no doubt in my mind but that she was telling the truth about Hitler. The fact that she had found him to be impotent is one thing. Obviously, he wasn’t a Muslim, so his circumcision can only mean that he was Jewish.
Colonel Roswell Rosengren was the man who got the fabric sample. While Rosengren may sound ((())), it’s actually Swedish without any connections the Ashkenazis, aside from its ornamental nature. I too have a German ornamental surname, yet not a shred of any Jewish connections by paper genealogy or genetics. And Roswell isn’t exactly high up on the lists of Yiddish proper names.
After his death his family donated the cloth to a museum in Gettysburg, PA.
Always be wary of third hand accounts that begin with “A drunk old lady speaking in a language I don’t understand said this about Hitler…”
The study ruled out any Jewish ancestry from the blood stained cloth that matched the bunker couch upon which AH died. Said blood stains yielded Y-chromosome matches to known, surviving males in Alois Hitler’s (AH’s dad) line. Now, my question to you, is whether that drunken lady was worth a few extra drinks on the tab for the silly tale she spun to you GIs?
I guess the authors of the Hitler study only read the abridged version. You might say they had the micro-PNAS.
(Sorry, I couldn’t resist.)
Not Jewish at all.
Hitler was a black jew with a vagina. Yawn.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dna-tests-hitler-descended-from-jews-africans/
Wuz ya dere, Charly?
I was.
Straight from the horse’s mouth via an impeccable interpreter.
And, yes, we used words like “circumscribed” to describe clipped dickheads, just like we said “Aye-rabs”, not “Arabs”, and we called Germans “Krautheads” (like WWII doughboys) while all Krauts to the east were known as “Stazis”.
It was a FIRST hand account, not third. It was HER OWN PERSONAL MEMORY, not someone else’s. She was tipsy for sure, which probably accounted for her loosened tongue, and no “bribes” of any kind were needed.
Back then I didn’t even recognize the name Rothschild from Adam, let alone the fact that Hitler had spared his life (by releasing him from the clink and letting him make good his escape, instead of kicking his Rothy ass to Dachau). So if this German Jewess claimed that Hitler had spared her life, why should that be any different than the the Hitler-Rothschild affair? It isn’t. If she claimed that Hitler had a dead dick [no doubt she used polite lingo in German], that he couldn’t get it up when he was with her in the 1920s, why should that raise eyebrows? He didn’t exactly have the rep of Romeo or Casanova. And if that meant Hitler was some closet queer, why would that astound anyone? Not saying that he was. I did read books like “The Pink Swastika” decades ago and it wouldn’t surprise me to find more evidence to that effect, altho I couldn’t care less about any of that (look at the massive gay gang rape ops of the IDF against “Aye-rabs” — there’s another example for ya).
And if in her recollection Hitler’s limp clipped pecker meant that he was neither a gentile nor a Muslim but a Jew by default, why should that surprise anyone today? Back then I couldn’t figure that out, but then again we were young and full of cum and our interests were laser focused on the 18-25 age bracket of frauleins, not tipsy ole Jewesses, plus there wasn’t access to online info [notwithstanding the internet’s precursor at the Pentagon], so what did we know? We didn’t really give a damn about Hitler’s clipped dead dick, to be totally frank. Watch that movie “Buffalo Soldiers” (2001). Black satire, yes, but once you filter out the Hollywooden crap (e.g. the rampaging tank), you get a perfect picture of the way it was. Always laugh uproariously whenever I see that flick. Brings back memories from the days when men were men and women were women (Archie Bunker was alive and kicking ass), and yes, one recollection is the tipsy ole German Jewess relating her personal experience with Hitler. Back then I didn’t get it because I didn’t know a bunch of things I’ve learned over the intervening 50 years. If she was right, why should that surprise anyone when we now know that at least 150,000 or more Jews served in Hitler’s war machine? The bottom line is that none of this changes anything. Hitler’s track record remains what it was, what it is, what it always will be, no matter what. He may have had a clipped dead dick when he was with that woman, and/or whatever else, but none of it makes a difference to the historical record. If he spared her life, great, but in the scheme of things, that’s one life of a Jewess that he didn’t take, like Rothschild’s, yet the other side of Hitler’s ledger remains what it is. And that doesn’t take anything away from the responsibility he will always bear — WWII, the dozens of millions he killed, the destruction, etc.
You can suck that up, or not, I couldn’t care less. All I know is that’s what she said and I regret that none of our Section had the foresight to get her on camera. If you can’t handle that, too bad, so sad.
Hitler was the greatest enemy who knowingly and willingly plunged the planet into WWII, which nobody can deny: back in March 1939 he already knew that if he attacked Poland that would trigger declarations of war from around the world — the British empire and the French. That was 100% understood by all and sundry. No controversy. He attacked Poland in September 1939 knowing it would cause Britain, Australia, NZ, India, S. Africa, Canada, France, etc. to declare war on Germany. Two years later he knew full well that attacking the USSR from the West would be the end of Germany, just as it had failed in WWI, just as Bonaparte had failed a century before that, just as Sweden had failed long before that. He knew full well during the same year that declaring war on America would guarantee Germany’s wholesale defeat, just as it had happened in WWI.
Weeks before it was over Hitler ordered the total annihilation of Germany — the nation that he loathed to infinity was to be razed to the ground, another incontrovertibly undeniable fact:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_Decree
“…the greatest European to ever live… Hitler’s achievements.”
“Greatest,” eh? “Achievements,” eh?
Understory and the rest of them are unvarnished unadulterated evildoers.
https://dokumen.pub/adolf-hitler-enemy-of-the-german-people-9780990954743.html
And tipsy people at a bar are never known to spin tall tales. LMAO!
Please! Spare us another reference from a no name author who has yet another opinion on AH. I’m no big fan of AH, but history is history and we can’t undo the past. Was AH a Bolshevist or Zionist? Not according to his own dictated writings in Mein Kampf. Was he a socialist? Yep! Names in the very party he led. Does AH explain how the West is killing itself now? No. Our problems are the same ones that plagued great civilizations throughout history – too much of the good life and loss of self sufficiency as a foundation for living.
Yours is the typical drivel of someone who hasn’t even read a book like the one quoted, from an author who has written thousands upon thousands of pages with references going back centuries. You exemplify the state of humanity and are a showcase of why we won’t make it out of this jewish plan to exterminate and replace all of Homo Sapiens: https://cjbbooks.com/
Thanks. I recall reading about that decades ago. Obviously, the claim has to be refuted in order to enforce the one ball micropenis theory.
The only important bits with Hitler was he was not the person portrayed(he had a fictional backstory), all the national grievances were ended under the real Fuhrer Bismarck 40 years previously, he was inserted into the role of Leader of the National Socialists by German intelligence, and nobody knew who they in fact worked for, like ours.
The person portrayed before 1939 was a winner(but untrustworthy), every decision after the invasion of Poland, was a loss for Germany and everyone else.
Germany was falling apart because it had allowed in Ukranian & Prussian Khazars and they were crooks, liars and robbers(in fact Sabbatean Franckists who killed Chrisitians as sacrifices ) and were hated by the established respectable J in Germany – 200,000 of which were Thule and founded the later National Socialist Workers party. Yes they were originally J\e/w’s
“Researchers studied DNA from a blood spatter taken from the couch Hitler shot himself on, later cut out of the couch and stored by a U.S. Army Officer.”
Berlin was taken by the Soviets. In 1961 they announced they had Hitler’s jawbone, I do not know if that claim was substantiated.
An American officer takes blood splatter from a couch–who, when, which couch, and how did this American get access to it?
The author may think the chain-of-custody matter not worthy of investigation; reasonable people must otherwise.