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Should Hitler's DNA have been examined if his permission - or that of a direct descendent - could not be given?

Mississippi is also home to the Piney Woods School, which was founded in 1909 to educate the descendents of former slaves and is now the nation’s oldest historically black boarding school.

The law would also relax the requirement to consult indigenous or traditional quilombola communities - descendents of Afro-Brazilian slaves - in some situations unless they are directly impacted.

He is an ethnic Ovaherero descendent and town councillor in Swakopmund, where many of the atrocities took place, and said "our wealth was taken, the farms, the cattle".

Previously, anyone with an Italian ancestor who lived after 17 March, 1861 - when the Kingdom of Italy was created - qualified to be a citizen under the 'jus sanguinis', or descendent blood line law.