Adolf Hitler was supposed to have taken his most intimate secrets to the grave. After his suicide in a Berlin bunker in April 1945, his aides followed his final orders to make sure his body could not be seized by his enemies. They doused it in petrol and set it alight.
But what the Führer did not reckon on was the discovery of the structure of DNA eight years later, and the tenacity of ancient and forensic DNA specialist Professor Turi King and a Channel 4 team eight decades on, in producing a two-part “world exclusive” documentary, Hitler’s DNA: Blueprint of a Dictator.
