Vladimir Putin was forced into a humiliating apology after his foreign minister claimed Adolf Hitler had Jewish origins, it has been claimed.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Thursday that the Russian leader had apologised for Sergey Lavrov's unsubstantiated comments about the Nazi dictator.
Germany's Third Reich oversaw the murder of six million Jews during the 1930s and 40s, mainly in concentration camps like Auschwitz.
