Posted on 12/18/2015 10:16:42 AM PST by PROCON
Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler really did have only one testicle, a German historian has claimed, apparently confirming an urban legend that has persisted for decades.
Generations of British schoolchildren have sung "Hitler has only got one ball" – the mocking song they learned from their parents and grandparents, who sang it during the Second World War.
Sung to the tune of Colonel Bogey's March, it goes:
Hitler has only got one ball
Goering has two but very small
Himmler has something similar
And poor old Goebbels has no balls at all.
It was composed as a propaganda song aimed at ridiculing Hitler and other Nazi leaders at the outbreak of the war.
But it appears that the comedians who came up with it may have struck closer to home than they realised while searching for inspiration.
After Hitler's arrest in 1923 following his failed Beer Hall Putsch, the future Fuhrer underwent a medical exam, according to documents found in a Bavarian archive by University of Erlangen history Professor Peter Fleischmann.
At the Landsberg prison, Hitler was examined by Dr Josef Brinsteiner, who found that he suffered from "right-side chryptorchidism", or an undescended right testicle, Fleischmann told Bild.
Normally men's testicles descend from inside the body into the scrotum during childhood.
But in some cases, one or both fail to descend – meaning that they atrophy and wither away rather than developing.
Unfortunately for Hitler, who was in otherwise perfect health and weighed in at a trim 78 kilos, that made the wounds of scatalogical British humour throughout the war – and well beyond the grave – particularly deep.
There is still no evidence, however, that one of the Fuhrer's gonads ended up at the Albert Hall in London.
A great pickup line? Just exactly what was that line? Inquiring minds want to know.
See #24.
So he was nut instead of nuts?
It goes something like this:
Me: "Ever see a dude with just one nut?"
Her: "NO! How does that happen?!"
Me: "Horrible chainsaw accident"
Her: *Grimaces*
Me: "The good news is, with just one being in there, it had room to grow YUGE!"
Her: "NO WAY!!"
Me: "Way!!!"
Her: "Can I see it?"
Me: "Wanna go back to your place?"
Believe it or not, I've had this very conversation, and several slight variations of it. Lol. To be honest, I used to be very embarrassed by it. It took getting to adulthood and realizing it was what it was, so I may as well have fun with it. As you can tell, I'm no longer embarrassed by it. HA!
And James Bond (On Her Majesty’s Secret Service) had three of them. Gold ones.
Hitler’s double, Herr Sillip, had only a single testicle.
The Russians believed that rumors Hitler had only one were spurious and concluded that the corpse in the bunker was not Hitler because it had only one. The corpse was also two inches too short; was wearing socks which had been darned; and had ears that were too large.
Sillip was actually a cousin of Hitlers who looked identical to him in other respects and had served as his double in many situations earlier.
I was thinking of that EXACTLY as I was typing the other note.
Well played sir.
Saw ship, sunk same ;)
The way I heard it was: "Hitler had only one big ball," but I guess during the war the British couldn't even make that concession.
The other version was "Hitler had only one left ball," which raises other questions. If Hitler had possessed two left testicles would that have solved his problem or would he still have suffered from not having had the right one?
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