Iranians Claim Hitler Was a Jew

It takes a special kind of crazy to come up with such lunacy, but who better than the current regime in Iran?

Just when you thought the Iranian leadership could stoop no further: A top advisor to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed in an interview with Iranian website Baztab that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's parents were both Jewish and that Hitler himself was one of the founders of the State of Israel.

In the interview, translated by MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute) Mohammad-Ali Ramin, a chief aide to Ahmadinejad, told Baztab that Hitler's paternal grandmother was a Jewish prostitute and his father even kept his Jewish name until finally changing it to Hitler when he was 40.

Jules Crittenden summarizes neatly:

I can see this really taking off in various Palo-symp, push-them-into-the-sea circles, where they already call the Israelis Nazis. Now it's firm historical basis has been established by a premier Jew-hating Iranian whackjob.

More from MEMRI.

I'm waiting for confirmation from noted academic David Duke.