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history repeats itself.Adolf Hitler likely had genetic condition limiting sexual development: research
Popular Second World War songs often mocked leader's anatomy but lacked any scientific basis
Author of the article:AFP
AFP
Published Nov 13, 2025 • 2 minute read
Adolf Hitler is pictured with his dog in an exhibition in Berlin in 2016.
Adolf Hitler is pictured with his dog in an exhibition in Berlin in 2016.
LONDON — Adolf Hitler most likely suffered from the genetic condition Kallmann Syndrome that can manifest itself in undescended testicles and a micropenis, researchers and documentary makers said Thursday, following DNA testing of the Nazi dictator’s blood.
The new research also quashes the suggestion that Hitler had Jewish ancestry.
Popular Second World War songs often mocked Hitler’s anatomy but lacked any scientific basis.
The findings by an international team of scientists and historians now appear to confirm longstanding suspicions around his sexual development.
“No one has ever really been able to explain why Hitler was so uncomfortable around women throughout his life, or why he probably never entered into intimate relations with women,” said Alex Kay of the University of Potsdam.
“But now we know that he had Kallmann Syndrome, this could be the answer we’ve been looking for,” he said.
The research findings are featured in a new documentary, “Hitler’s DNA: Blueprint of a Dictator”, due to be broadcast on Saturday.
The testing found a “high likelihood” that Hitler had Kallmann Syndrome and “very high” scores — in the top one percent — for a predisposition to autism, schizophrenia and biopolar disorder, programme makers Blink Films said.
The research team stressed that such conditions, however, could not explain or excuse Hitler’s warmongering or racist policies.
Over 50 million people are estimated to have died in the Second World War, including six million Jews who were systematically murdered.
No Jewish grandfather
The testing was made possible after researchers obtained a sample of Hitler’s blood from a piece of material taken from the sofa on which he shot himself.
Kallmann Syndrome often results in “low testosterone levels, undescended testicles and can result in a micropenis,” Blink Films said.
The DNA results additionally rule out the possibility that Hitler had a Jewish grandfather via his grandmother, who was rumoured to have got pregnant by an employer in whose house she worked.
“Analysis of the DNA debunks this myth by showing that the Y chromosome data matches the DNA of Hitler’s male line relative. If he had Jewish ancestry (through an outside relationship), that match wouldn’t be there,” the production company added.
Geneticist Turi King, known for identifying the remains of medieval king Richard III and who also worked on the project, said Hitler’s genes put him in a category of people who were often sent to the gas chambers by the Nazis.
“Hitler’s policies are completely around eugenics,” said the expert in ancient and forensic DNA at the University of Bath in western England.
“If he had been able to look at his own DNA… he almost certainly would have sent himself,” she said.
The two-part documentary is scheduled to begin on the U.K.’s Channel 4 on Saturday.
Adolf Hitler likely had genetic condition limiting sexual development: research
Adolf Hitler most likely suffered from Kallmann Syndrome that can manifest itself in undescended testicles and a micropenis.torontosun.com
Small penis linked ‘Golden State Killer’ to sex assaults
According to a new book written by Sacramento, Calif., district attorney Thien Ho, it was the small penis of Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. that helped cops link him to many crimes
Author of the article:Eddie Chau
Published Nov 17, 2025 • Last updated 15 hours ago • 1 minute read
Joseph James DeAngelo, the suspected "Golden State Killer", appears in court for his arraignment on April 27, 2018 in Sacramento, California.
It appears the Golden State Killer was caught because of a very tiny physical feature.
According to a new book written by Sacramento, Calif., district attorney Thien Ho, it was the small penis of Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. that helped cops link him to many crimes.
The book, The People vs. the Golden State Killer, outlines how cops believed DeAngelo, who was arrested on suspicion of crimes around California, might have also been a suspect they named the “East Side Rapist.”
DeAngelo was believed to have killed at least 12, sexually assaulted more than 45 people and burglarized hundreds of homes in California in the 1970s and 1980s. For his crimes, DeAngelo was nicknamed the Golden State Killer.
Ho wrote that victims of the sexual assaults all described the suspect as having a small manhood.
“I need circumstantial evidence corroborating his identity as the EAR (East Side Rapist). I need to confirm the extreme smallness of his penis,” Ho wrote, per Page Six.
Ho noted there was no DNA linking DeAngelo to the cases.
A photo of accused rapist and killer Joseph James DeAngelo is displayed during a news conference on April 25, 2018 in Sacramento, California.
After DeAngelo was arrested, police and a photographer had the task of taking pictures of his genitalia. In the book, Ho wrote that the cameraman kneeled down to do the task, but “grew frustrated after several failed attempts.”
“(One of the cops) threw up his hands in the air in exasperation and barked … ‘There’s nothing there,'” Ho wrote.
Cops described De Angelo’s penis as being “smaller than the circumference of a dime,” and its length is “equal to the tip of your pinky.”
“We had the circumstantial evidence we needed in order to corroborate the testimonies of DeAngelo’s victims,” Ho wrote.
DeAngelo pleaded guilty to 26 crimes in 2020, which include the sexual assaults in the East Area. He was sentenced to multiple consecutive life sentences with no chance of parole.
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According to a new book written by Sacramento, Calif., district attorney Thien Ho, it was the small penis of Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. that helped cops link him to many crimes
Author of the article:Eddie Chau
Published Nov 17, 2025 • Last updated 15 hours ago • 1 minute read
Joseph James DeAngelo, the suspected "Golden State Killer", appears in court for his arraignment on April 27, 2018 in Sacramento, California.
It appears the Golden State Killer was caught because of a very tiny physical feature.
According to a new book written by Sacramento, Calif., district attorney Thien Ho, it was the small penis of Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. that helped cops link him to many crimes.
The book, The People vs. the Golden State Killer, outlines how cops believed DeAngelo, who was arrested on suspicion of crimes around California, might have also been a suspect they named the “East Side Rapist.”
DeAngelo was believed to have killed at least 12, sexually assaulted more than 45 people and burglarized hundreds of homes in California in the 1970s and 1980s. For his crimes, DeAngelo was nicknamed the Golden State Killer.
Ho wrote that victims of the sexual assaults all described the suspect as having a small manhood.
“I need circumstantial evidence corroborating his identity as the EAR (East Side Rapist). I need to confirm the extreme smallness of his penis,” Ho wrote, per Page Six.
Ho noted there was no DNA linking DeAngelo to the cases.
A photo of accused rapist and killer Joseph James DeAngelo is displayed during a news conference on April 25, 2018 in Sacramento, California.
After DeAngelo was arrested, police and a photographer had the task of taking pictures of his genitalia. In the book, Ho wrote that the cameraman kneeled down to do the task, but “grew frustrated after several failed attempts.”
“(One of the cops) threw up his hands in the air in exasperation and barked … ‘There’s nothing there,'” Ho wrote.
Cops described De Angelo’s penis as being “smaller than the circumference of a dime,” and its length is “equal to the tip of your pinky.”
“We had the circumstantial evidence we needed in order to corroborate the testimonies of DeAngelo’s victims,” Ho wrote.
DeAngelo pleaded guilty to 26 crimes in 2020, which include the sexual assaults in the East Area. He was sentenced to multiple consecutive life sentences with no chance of parole.
‘Golden State Killer’ may have only been caught because of his micropenis: ‘There’s nothing there!’
IT’S been a huge week for micro-penises — especially those belonging to psychopaths.
Small penis linked ‘Golden State Killer’ to sex assaults
It appears the Golden State Killer was caught because of a very tiny physical feature.
Giant spider web found in Greek-Albanian border cave: study
The spiders share the cave with numerous other insects, including centipedes, scorpions and beetles.
Author of the article:AFP
AFP
Published Nov 20, 2025 • 1 minute read
The web was discovered in a cave on the border of Greece and Albania.
The web was discovered in a cave on the border of Greece and Albania.
Athens (AFP) — Scientists have discovered a giant spider web spanning about half the size of a tennis court and with some 111,000 spiders in a cave on the border between Greece and Albania.
The web in the “Sulfur Cave” in the Vromoner Gorge covers some 106 square metres (1,140 square feet), according to the study in the publication Subterranean Biology.
In it are some 69,000 domestic house spiders (Tegenaria domestica), in addition to over 42,000 of Prinerigone vagans dwarf weavers (Linyphiidae), the study said.
The researchers from universities and natural history museums in Albania, Romania, Belgium, Germany and Italy called the discovery “the first documented case of colonial web formation” of two species that are normally solitary.
Based on its spatial distribution and dimensions, species composition and population density, in addition to the food resources, the spider colony is unique and remarkable, they said.
This is “the first documented case of colonial web formation in these species”, the experts said, adding that the structure is formed “of numerous individual funnel-shaped webs”.
The cave, so called because of its abundance of the chemical, completely straddles the border — its entrance is in Greece, while the deepest sections are under Albanian soil.
Springs located in the deep recesses of the cave feed a sulfidic stream which flows through the entire length of the main cave passage, the study said.
The spiders share the cave with numerous other insects, including centipedes, scorpions and beetles.
The discovery was first reported by members of the Czech Speleological Society, the study said.
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The spiders share the cave with numerous other insects, including centipedes, scorpions and beetles.
Author of the article:AFP
AFP
Published Nov 20, 2025 • 1 minute read
The web was discovered in a cave on the border of Greece and Albania.
The web was discovered in a cave on the border of Greece and Albania.
Athens (AFP) — Scientists have discovered a giant spider web spanning about half the size of a tennis court and with some 111,000 spiders in a cave on the border between Greece and Albania.
The web in the “Sulfur Cave” in the Vromoner Gorge covers some 106 square metres (1,140 square feet), according to the study in the publication Subterranean Biology.
In it are some 69,000 domestic house spiders (Tegenaria domestica), in addition to over 42,000 of Prinerigone vagans dwarf weavers (Linyphiidae), the study said.
The researchers from universities and natural history museums in Albania, Romania, Belgium, Germany and Italy called the discovery “the first documented case of colonial web formation” of two species that are normally solitary.
Based on its spatial distribution and dimensions, species composition and population density, in addition to the food resources, the spider colony is unique and remarkable, they said.
This is “the first documented case of colonial web formation in these species”, the experts said, adding that the structure is formed “of numerous individual funnel-shaped webs”.
The cave, so called because of its abundance of the chemical, completely straddles the border — its entrance is in Greece, while the deepest sections are under Albanian soil.
Springs located in the deep recesses of the cave feed a sulfidic stream which flows through the entire length of the main cave passage, the study said.
The spiders share the cave with numerous other insects, including centipedes, scorpions and beetles.
The discovery was first reported by members of the Czech Speleological Society, the study said.
Giant spider web found in Greek-Albanian border cave: study
The discovery was first reported by members of the Czech Speleological Society, the study said.
JFK's granddaughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals terminal cancer diagnosis
One of her doctors said she might live for about another year
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Published Nov 22, 2025 • 2 minute read
Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, addresses an audience during the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award ceremony, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Oct. 29, 2023.
Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, addresses an audience during the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award ceremony, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Oct. 29, 2023.
John F. Kennedy’s granddaughter disclosed Saturday that she has terminal cancer, writing in an essay in The New Yorker that one of her doctors said she might live for about another year.
Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Kennedy’s daughter, Caroline Kennedy, and Edwin Schlossberg, wrote that she was diagnosed in May 2024 at 34. After the birth of her second child, her doctor noticed her white blood cell count was high. It turned out to be acute myeloid leukemia with a rare mutation, mostly seen in older people, she wrote.
Her essay was published on the 62nd anniversary of her grandfather’s assassination.
Schlossberg, an environmental journalist, wrote she has undergone rounds of chemotherapy and two stem cell transplants, the first using cells from her sister and the next from an unrelated donor, and participated in clinical trials. During the latest trial, she wrote that her doctor told her “he could keep me alive for a year, maybe.”
Schlossberg said the policies pushed by her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Health and Human Services secretary, could hurt cancer patients like her. Caroline Kennedy urged senators to reject RFK Jr.’s confirmation.
“As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers,” she wrote in the essay.
Schlossberg wrote about her fears that her daughter and son won’t remember her. She feels cheated and sad that she won’t get to keep living “the wonderful life” she had with her husband, George Moran. While her parents and siblings try to hide their pain from her, she said she feels it every day.
“For my whole life, I have tried to be good, to be a good student and a good sister and a good daughter, and to protect my mother and never make her upset or angry,” she wrote. “Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to our family’s life, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.”
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One of her doctors said she might live for about another year
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Published Nov 22, 2025 • 2 minute read
Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, addresses an audience during the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award ceremony, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Oct. 29, 2023.
Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, addresses an audience during the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award ceremony, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Oct. 29, 2023.
John F. Kennedy’s granddaughter disclosed Saturday that she has terminal cancer, writing in an essay in The New Yorker that one of her doctors said she might live for about another year.
Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Kennedy’s daughter, Caroline Kennedy, and Edwin Schlossberg, wrote that she was diagnosed in May 2024 at 34. After the birth of her second child, her doctor noticed her white blood cell count was high. It turned out to be acute myeloid leukemia with a rare mutation, mostly seen in older people, she wrote.
Her essay was published on the 62nd anniversary of her grandfather’s assassination.
Schlossberg, an environmental journalist, wrote she has undergone rounds of chemotherapy and two stem cell transplants, the first using cells from her sister and the next from an unrelated donor, and participated in clinical trials. During the latest trial, she wrote that her doctor told her “he could keep me alive for a year, maybe.”
Schlossberg said the policies pushed by her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Health and Human Services secretary, could hurt cancer patients like her. Caroline Kennedy urged senators to reject RFK Jr.’s confirmation.
“As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers,” she wrote in the essay.
Schlossberg wrote about her fears that her daughter and son won’t remember her. She feels cheated and sad that she won’t get to keep living “the wonderful life” she had with her husband, George Moran. While her parents and siblings try to hide their pain from her, she said she feels it every day.
“For my whole life, I have tried to be good, to be a good student and a good sister and a good daughter, and to protect my mother and never make her upset or angry,” she wrote. “Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to our family’s life, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.”
JFK's granddaughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals terminal cancer diagnosis
John F. Kennedy's granddaughter Tatiana Schlossberg disclosed Saturday that she has terminal cancer.