08 May 2006

Guillermo Has Only Got One Ball?

In today’s Guardian there is a short article about a Spanish university is conducting DNA tests on a 50-year-old electrician from Granada who is trying to prove he is a descendent of both Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler.

The man, known only as Guillermo, believes Himmler is his maternal grandfather. while his father is the son of Hitler, born in 1931 of a relationship between the Führer and his niece, Geli Raubal. Apparently one of the main intentions for proving his relationship is to demonstrate that leading Nazis stayed in Spain after the War rather than just pass through en route to Latin American......

By contrast the surviving descendants of William Patrick Hitler (Adolf’s British nephew) and Elfreide Raubal (Geli’s sister) do not exactly proclaim their ancestry to the world. As for Nazis in Spain after WWII, the residence of prominent Nazis (eg Leon Degrelle and Otto Skorzeny) is already a matter of record.

Perhaps Guillermo would be well advised just to look in his underpants and check the number of balls present and keep quiet if there s only one

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Skorzeny also turned up in the West of Ireland. Dev had obviously sent all the right signals.

jams o donnell said...

You are quite right. He purchased Martinstown House in County Kildare in 1959.

Irish neutrality in WWII is a contentious issue, although for many thousands of Irish men and women who served in the British forces in WWII (including my own father) it was academic. For them the commment "arne't yiou glad Dev kept us out of the war" was a standing joke