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We really do have Hitler's skull, say Russians... despite US claim bones are female

Russian secret service officials claim they have genuine fragments of the skull of Adolf Hitler and have dismissed American reports which suggest it belongs to a woman.

Vassili Khristoforov, head of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), said: ‘The FSB archives hold the jaw of Hitler and the state archives a fragment of Hitler’s skull.

‘With the exception of these remains, seized on May 5, 1945, there exist no other bits from the body of Hitler.’

In September academics from the University of Connecticut, in the US, said their DNA analysis showed the skull fragment to be that of a woman, aged between 20 and 40.

But they did not test the jawbone, and that, say the Russians, is positively male.
Read entire article at Daily Mail (UK)