Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Half of Britons Have German Blood

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: They are among Britain’s most bitter rivals, but despite two world wars and any number of football matches, it would seem we are closer to the Germans than many might imagine.

Geneticists claim that as many as half of Britons have German blood, a consequence of Anglo-Saxon migration after the Roman Empire fell.

“There is no use in denying it,” Der Spiegel, the German news magazine, wrote this week. “It is now clear the nation which most dislikes the Germans were once Krauts themselves.”

University College London academics studied a segment of the Y chromosome that appears in almost all Danish and north German men. They found that half of British men also have the segment. » | Monday, June 20, 2011

Deutsches Blut im Königshaus. Deutsches Blut im Volk. Deutsches Blut überall im Lande. Well, well, I never! Whoever would have thought it? – © Mark

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