Hitler Only Had One Ball, According to New Medical Report

Maybe that's why he was so angry.

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Was #BabyHitler born with only one tiny testicle, instead of two? A German historian says yes. Professor Peter Fleischmann of Erlangen-Nuremberg University claims to have uncovered medical reports that unequivocally state Nazi leader Adolf Hitler only had one ball. According to the Telegraph, records from a 1923 medical examination at Landsberg prison reveal the Fuhrer had an undescended testicle on the right side.

The records were lost until they re-surfaced at an auction in 2010, but at that point they were confiscated by the German government and have only now come to light. In them, Dr. Josef Steiner Brin, the medical examiner at Landsberg, wrote Hitler was "healthy and strong" but suffered from "right-side cryptorchidism," a.k.a. an undescended testicle.

Apparently there have been a lot of theories about Hitler's balls over the years—these findings contradict an amateur historian's claim in 2008 that Hitler lost a testicle due to shrapnel, and they also go against Hitler's childhood doctor's claim (in a 1943 statement to American officials) that Hitler's genitals were "completely normal." A Soviet autopsy of Hitler's body did report one testicle completely missing, but it was the left one, not the right.

The whole "Hitler only has one ball" theory started thanks to an anti-German song by the British Council that went: "Göring has only got one ball, Hitler's are so very small, Himmler's so very similar, And Goebbels has no balls at all." Maybe that's why Nazi leaders were so insecure.

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