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Did Adolf Hitler have Jewish roots? Sergei Lavrov's claims about Nazi leader debunked - and Israel's reaction. Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has ...

Wise Jewish people say that the most ardent anti-Semites are usually Jews." "I could be wrong, but Hitler also had Jewish blood. “Hitler was not of Jewish origin and the Jews did not murder themselves in the Holocaust. The lowest form of racism against Jews is blaming the Jews themselves for antisemitism.” Israel has asked to meet with their Russian ambassador for “clarification” around the comment and has asked Russia to apologise. In an interview with the Italian media, Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov claimed that Hitler had “Jewish blood”. The comments were made as Lavrov defended Russia for invading Ukraine to “denazify” the country, even though Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy is Jewish.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made the startling suggestion that Nazi Germany leader Adolf Hitler had Jewish roots -- prompting Israel's prime ...

“The Jews did not murder themselves in the Holocaust,” Lapid said. “As I’ve already said, no war today is the Holocaust nor is it like the Holocaust,” he continued. “The basest level of racism against Jews is to blame the Jews themselves for anti-Semitism.”

Israel lambasted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday for claiming that Adolf Hitler had Jewish origins, saying it was an "unforgivable" ...

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com "For a long time now we've been hearing the wise Jewish people say that the biggest anti-Semites are the Jews themselves," he added. "The use of the Holocaust of the Jewish people for political purposes must stop immediately," he added.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recent statement about Adolf Hitler has ruffled the feathers of a large number of people, and irked Israel.

According to Encyclopedia Britannica, a Swedish legislator nominated Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939. The BBC report further said that Frank had been instructed by Hitler himself to find out if he indeed had Jewish roots. According to the BBC, unproven facts have been swirling around for decades that Hitler had Jewish blood.

Disclaimer: A number of claims and counterclaims are being made on the Ukraine-Russia conflict on the ground and online. While WION takes utmost care to ...

While WION takes utmost care to accurately report this developing news story, we cannot independently verify the authenticity of all statements, photos and videos. The Russian ambassador to Israel has been summoned by Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid for "a tough talk". The Russian ambassador to Israel has been summoned by Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid for a 'tough talk'

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February, President Putin described it as a "special military operation" to remove leaders he claimed were neo-Nazis. Israel has ...

Israel has called Mr Lavrov's remarks "unforgiveable" and summoned Russia's ambassador for an explanation. Russia's foreign minister has been criticised for claiming Adolf Hitler "had Jewish origins" and "some of the worst antisemites are Jews". Israel has called Sergei Lavrov's remarks "unforgiveable" and summoned Russia's ambassador for an explanation.

Israel condemns comments by Sergei Lavrov, who said Hitler 'had Jewish blood' and the 'most rabid antisemites tend to be Jews'

“We demand that he give the order to release all civilians and stop resisting. The network acted as a sounding board for Russian propaganda by letting Lavrov speak undisturbed, denying the crimes he is committing without any cross-examination”. Yair Lapid, Israel’s foreign minister, said Israel made “every effort” to have good relations with Russia “but there is a limit and this limit has been crossed this time. “Or perhaps they have never learned those lessons.” “There is no family without a monster.” In March, shortly after Russia began its war in Ukraine, Lavrov told US broadcaster ABC News: “I think the Nazis and neo-Nazis manipulate [Zelenskiy].”

Zaporizhzhia: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's suggestion that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had Jewish ...

Russia said it struck dozens of military targets in the region in the past day alone. The regional administration in Zaporizhzhia reported that at least two people died in Russian shelling. Get a note directly from our foreign correspondents on what’s making headlines around the world. In other developments, European Union energy ministers met to discuss new sanctions against the Kremlin, which could include restrictions on Russian oil. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he hoped more people would be able to leave Mariupol in an organised evacuation. The official said Russian forces made minimal gains over the weekend. Russian forces have pounded much of the city to rubble, trapping civilians with little food, water, heat or medicine. Some Mariupol residents got out of the city on their own, by way of often damaged private cars. this means that the Russian leadership has forgotten all the lessons of World war two,” Zelensky, who is Jewish, said in his nightly video message. Hitler, Nazi Germany’s wartime leader, oversaw the systematic death of up to six million European Jewish civilians in a network of concentration camps his regime built. Russia has demanded that the fighters surrender; they have refused. Authorities gave no explanation for the delay.

The suggestion by Russia's foreign minister that Adolf Hitler had Jewish blood is just the latest version of a conspiracy theory exploiting a gap in the ...

"Jews did not murder themselves in the Holocaust," Lapid added. Frank claimed to have discovered that, at the time, she was employed as a cook for a Jewish family by the name of Frankenberger, in the Austrian city of Graz. Frank said Hitler had told him that actually his grandmother and her future husband had let the Jewish man think he was the father in order to get the money out of him. "This must have been towards the end of the 1930s," wrote Frank, in an extract published by Germany's Der Spiegel magazine at the time. In his memoirs, published after his 1946 execution for war crimes, Frank said he had secretly researched Hitler's ancestry at the request of the Nazi leader himself. The suggestion by Russia's foreign minister that Adolf Hitler had Jewish blood is just the latest version of a conspiracy theory exploiting a gap in the dictator's ancestry.

Berlin: The suggestion by Russia's foreign minister that Adolf Hitler had Jewish blood is just the latest version of a conspiracy theory exploiting a gap in the ...

“Jews did not murder themselves in the Holocaust,” Lapid added. Frank claimed to have discovered that, at the time, she was employed as a cook for a Jewish family by the name of Frankenberger, in the Austrian city of Graz. Frank said Hitler had told him that actually his grandmother and her future husband had let the Jewish man think he was the father in order to get the money out of him. “This must have been towards the end of the 1930s,” wrote Frank, in an extract published by Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine at the time. Sandgruber, who last year published the first biography of Alois Hitler, explained that the rumours first began circulating in the 1920s, as Adolf Hitler began his rise to power. Berlin: The suggestion by Russia’s foreign minister that Adolf Hitler had Jewish blood is just the latest version of a conspiracy theory exploiting a gap in the dictator’s ancestry.

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid has slammed his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov for alleging Adolf Hitler may have "had Jewish blood" and summoned ...

"The Ukrainians aren't Nazis. Only the Nazis were Nazis and only they dealt with the systematic destruction of the Jewish people," Mr Lapid told the YNet news website. Israeli Foreign Ministry Yair Lapid, whose grandfather died in the Holocaust, said that accusing Jews of being anti-Semites was "the basest level of racism". He also dismissed Mr Lavrov's assertion that pro-Nazi elements held sway over the Ukrainian government and military. Dani Dayan, chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, said the Russian minister's remarks were "an insult and a severe blow to the victims of the real Nazism". "The Ukrainians aren't Nazis. Only the Nazis were Nazis and only they dealt with the systematic destruction of the Jewish people," Mr Lapid told the YNet news website. Israeli Foreign Ministry Yair Lapid, whose grandfather died in the Holocaust, said that accusing Jews of being anti-Semites was "the basest level of racism". He also dismissed Mr Lavrov's assertion that pro-Nazi elements held sway over the Ukrainian government and military. Dani Dayan, chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, said the Russian minister's remarks were "an insult and a severe blow to the victims of the real Nazism".

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov cited an often-debunked claim about Hitler's ancestry. Here's where that story comes from.

His study, arguing that more credence should be given to Frank’s account, was published in the Journal of European Studies. To top it off, the son of Frankenreiter — the alleged grandfather — would only have been 10 when Alois was born. Frank claimed that he discovered that Hitler’s paternal grandmother, Maria Anna Schicklgruber, gave birth in 1937 to Hitler’s father, Alois, while working as a cook for a Jewish family in Graz, a city in Austria. Schicklgruber was 42 at the time. Hitler cited his grandmother as a source of the story — but she had died 40 years before he was born.) During Hitler’s rise to power, the missing information about his grandfather led to speculation about a possible Jewish ancestry. The source of this story stems from a documented fact: Hitler’s father was born out of wedlock and Hitler’s grandfather has never been revealed.