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How a blood-soaked memento taken from Hitler’s lair held key to DNA discovery

For nearly 70 years, a swatch taken by a US officer from Hitler's Berlin bunker in 1945 remained hidden. Its purchase by a ...
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Hitler's bunker is now just a parking lot. But it's a 'dark tourism' attraction anyway

This first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter. You can sign up here. BERLIN — On a Wednesday afternoon in late August, I traveled to a tourist attraction in the heart of Germany's capital. If I ...
HistoryExtra

“We analysed Hitler’s DNA – and what we discovered made us gasp”

Turi King and Alex J Kay have married genetics with history to study a sample of DNA from Adolf Hitler – and, as they reveal, ...