LAVROV BLAMES THE HOLOCAUST ON THE JEWS

Thanks to its foreign policy, Russia is now pushing this meme.

In daring new comments, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has blamed the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews are believed to have perished, on the Jews themselves!!!

During an interview with Italian TV channel Rete 4 on Sunday (1st May), Lavrov was asked how could Ukraine's government be "Nazis" when its leader, President Zelesnskyy, is a Jew. 

Lavrov replied:
 

"I think that Hitler also had Jewish origins, so it means nothing." 

And added:

“For a long time now we’ve been hearing the wise Jewish people say that the biggest antisemites are the Jews themselves.”

Lavrov: "Jews = Nazis = Jews"

The claim that Hitler was Jewish and that the Holocaust was therefore an act of Jewish self-loathing has been "deboonked" by most serious historians, but continues to have a following among people attracted to interesting and unconventional theories. 

Whether true or not, the theory has a long pedigree. 

According to the Jewish Virtual Library, in 1933, the London Daily Mirror published a picture of a gravestone in a Jewish cemetery in Bucharest inscribed with some Hebrew characters and the name "Adolf Hitler."

The German leader was sufficiently worried that he had the Nazi law defining Jewishness re-written to exempt Jesus Christ and himself from its remit.

In 1946 Hitler's close associate and top Nazi, Hans Frank, wrote a memoir shortly before his execution, which claimed to have uncovered evidence in 1930 that Hitler’s paternal grandfather was a Jewish man living in Graz, Austria, in the household where Hitler’s grandmother was employed. Frank undertook the research at Hitler's own request.

Frank claimed that he discovered the existence of correspondence between Maria Anna Schicklgruber – Hitler’s grandmother – and a Jew named Frankenberger living in Graz. According to Frank, the letters hinted that Frankenberger’s 19-year-old son had impregnated Maria Anna while she worked in the Frankenberger household:

"...that the illegitimate child of the Schickelgruber [sic] had been conceived under conditions which required Frankenberger to pay alimony."

This illegitimate union is thought to have taken place in 1836, making Hitler at least 25% Jewish.

In 2010, the British paper The Daily Telegraph reported that a study had been conducted in which saliva samples were collected from 39 of Hitler's known relatives to test their DNA origins and found, though inconclusively, that Hitler may have Jewish origins.

The paper reported:

"A chromosome called Haplogroup E1b1b1 which showed up in [the Hitler] samples is rare in Western Europe and is most commonly found in the Berbers of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, as well as among Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews ... Haplogroup E1b1b1, which accounts for approximately 18 to 20 per cent of Ashkenazi and 8.6 per cent to 30 per cent of Sephardic Y-chromosomes, appears to be one of the major founding lineages of the Jewish population."

Lavrov's comment brought condemnation from a wide array of politicians and media figures.