Hitler did have only one testicle after all, claims German historian

The Second World War song that mocks Adolf Hitler for only having “one ball” may have some truth to it after all. A German historian claims he has found evidence through medical records that the Nazi dictator had an undescended testicle. The apparent proof comes from a doctor’s examination of him in Landsberg prison in 1923. It happened after he was arrested over his failed attempt to take power in the Munich beer hall putsch. The records were thought to have been lost but turned up at an auction in 2010.

Hitler has only got one ball. Goring has two but very small. Himmler has something similar. But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all.

The satirical song used to lampoon the dictator and other Nazi leaders during WWII was sung to the tune of Colonel Bogey’s March

They were subsequently seized by the Bavarian government but have now been studied in depth by Professor Peter Fleischmann of Erlangen-Nuremberg University. Notes from prison medical officer Dr Josef Steiner reportedly stated “Adolf Hitler, artist, recently writer” and described him as “healthy and strong” but suffering from “right-side cryptorchidism”. Men’s testicles usually descend from inside the body into the scrotum during childhood - but when one or both do not this is known as cryptorchidism. Prof Fleischmann told German newspaper Bild that the records showed one of Hitler’s testicles was “probably stunted”.