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Clearly you don't understand what being a Jew is -- to a Jew. In Judaism, if your mother was a Jew, you're a Jew, whether either of you practice(d) the religion or not. If your mother's mother was a Jew, you're a Jew. If your mother's mother's mother was a Jew, you're a Jew.
Judaism is a religion, a culture and/or a bloodline. One can be culturally Jewish but not religious (like me). And one can be Jewish by blood but practice a different religion (like the folks in the OP, until they chose to practice Judaism). Some Jews believe in Patrilineal Descent, though it's not universally accepted.
My realm is Economics, not Genetics: but I remain unconvinced that all critical Jewish characteristics are transmitted only along matrilineal lines. There's a lot to that, though, and I think it is essentially (though not entirely) valid. The science of Genetics is still in its infancy, as recent rethinking of the Neanderthal contribution to Europe's Genome has revealed. If Western Civilization can persist for just a while longer, we may have more definitive answers regarding 'Hitler's genetic makeup (I'd also like to have the final word on the Anastasia Romanov mystery).
In any event, I did not, and would never, state that Hitler could have been a Jew. He most definitely was not. There is a huge difference between having a bit of Jewish ancestry and being a Jew.
1. I do not think this is a discussion about genetics.
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