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Austrian cattle farmer is Hitler's cousin

ONE of Hitler's closest surviving relatives has been tracked down by The Sun - living on a cattle farm.

Gerhard Koppensteiner looks remarkably like the Führer.

But he is desperate to play down the connection as he quietly rears his cows in a remote village in northern Austria....

Neighbours in the mountain village near the Czech border know of the link. But one said: "You can't hold Hitler's crimes against them."
Read entire article at The Sun (UK)