Hitler has only got one ball,
Goering has two, but very small;
Himmler is very sim'lar,
And Goebbels has no balls at all.
Speculation is rife regarding the number of testicles that Adolph Hitler may or may not have had. Many sources of the time stated that he had only one, but it was common for soldiers to insult the sexual capabilities of their opponents. But could it be true? That question is surprisingly hard to answer.
During WWI, at the October 1916 Battle of The Somme, Hitler was wounded and by some accounts the wound was to his groin. Yet no doctor ever recorded a mention of a missing testicle. The mystery becomes even more confusing after his death. The Soviets were the first to reach Berlin and Hitler. Until 1950, when they released a film called "The Fall of Berlin" (which depicted Hitler and Eva Braun committing suicide), the Soviets had claimed that the couple had escaped to Spain or Argentina. On May 1, 1945, German radio announced that Hitler had been killed fighting with his troops. To sort out the mystery the British assigned H. R. Trevor-Roper, a well known historian, to the investigation. He concluded that Hitler killed himself in his bunker on April 30th and that his body was burned nearby.
In the 1960s the Soviets released a supposedly secret autopsy report which referenced the testicle issue: "left testicle could not be found either in the scrotum or on the spermatic cord inside the inguinal canal, or in the small pelvis. . . ." Adding to the confusion, in a statement by a woman who claimed to have had a relationship with Hitler, it was said that he was properly endowed. Additionally the autopsy made no mention of any external wound despite the belief of many Germans that Hitler shot himself as he bit a cyanide capsule. A 1972 review of the autopsy conclud that the x-rays matched Hitler's dental records, supporting the belief that the report was genuine. However, one of Hitler's WWI commanders noted that he only saw one testicle during a VD exam.
Unfortunately, Hitler's body is gone. Officially, after he killed himself, he was burned and then taken by Soviet authorities. An autopsy was performed then the body was buried in East Germany in an unmarked grave, until 1970 when it was exhumed and cremated. The ashes were scattered with the intent of preventing a Hitler "shrine," but the actual result has been serious questions regarding the validity of the documentation and the story of his death as a whole. In 2000 a Russian news broadcast stated that Soviet officials had ignored evidence and that the body may not have been that of Hitler. Many still believe that Hitler escaped. The 2009 discovery of what is supposed to be a portion of Hitler's skull only brings more questions.
The truth is that Hitler was not willing to allow anyone to see that region, leading many to speculate that there was something amiss. But the evidence is severely lacking. This leaves us without a clear answer on the lone-nut theory. It may have been truth, or simply propaganda.
-Professor Walter00
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