http://www.smh.com.au/world/hitlers-39-living-relatives-revealed-20090915-fo86.html


Hitler's 39 living relatives revealed
ALLAN HALL, BERLIN
September 15, 2009 
THIRTY-NINE living relatives of Adolf Hitler have been discovered by a customs 
official and a journalist who claim to have decoded the Nazi dictator's DNA.

Analysing forgotten cigarette butts in a small village in lower Austria, a used 
paper serviette in a New York fast-food restaurant and the seals of letters 
sent over 30 years ago from northern France, Marc Vermeeren and Jean-Paul 
Mulders said they had traced all known living relatives of the Fuehrer for the 
first time.

As well as three living in America, whose existence has been reported 
previously, they claim to have tracked down 36 others who still live in the 
wooded area of Austria where Hitler was born.

Mr Vermeeren, a Belgian customs official, and Mulders, a journalist for Belgian 
newspaper Het Laaste Nieuws, said three great-grandchildren of Hitler's father, 
Alois, lived on Long Island, outside New York, under the false name 
Stuart-Houston. They are descendants who left Germany to escape the Nazis.

Louis and Brian Stuart-Houston share a little wooden house in East Patchogue, 
where they work as gardeners, while Alexander is a retired psychologist who 
helps Vietnam veterans.

The Belgians said they had watched them for seven days and nights, following 
60-year-old Alexander to a fast-food restaurant where he disposed of a paper 
serviette after eating fried chicken that they retrieved and later matched with 
''DNA of Hitler that we keep in a sealed, armoured chest'', according to 
Mulders.

The cigarette butts came from Hitler relatives in Austria, they said.

''The American relatives have agreed not to have children to extinguish the 
saga of Hitler and stop living in fear, but have promised to publish a book 
before they die,'' said Mulders.

Source: The Age

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