Hitler may have only had one testicle, new research claims

The satirical song used to lampoon the dictator and other Nazi leaders during WWII was sung to the tune of Colonel Bogey’s March. It was here, according to Fleischmann, that doctors discovered that Hitler’s right testicle still remained inside of his body.

A new document was presented today in Munich that confirmed that Adolf Hitler had only one ball.

But the notes by examiner Dr Josef Steiner Brin taken during the check-up at Landsberg Prison say Hitler – described in the records as “an artist, recently writer” – was for the most part “healthy and strong”.

Long thought to have been lost, the records of the examination surfaced at an auction in Bavaria in 2010 before swiftly being confiscated by the Bavarian government.

They have been looked at by Professor Peter Fleischmann, who told German newspaper Bild that it was shown that one of Hitler’s testicles was undeveloped. When he was entering the prison in Landsberg, he was examined by a doctor.

In very rare cases, cryptorchidism can develop later in life.

The condition occurs when one or both testicles fail to descend during childhood.

An autopsy carried out on Hitler’s corpse also found that one testicle was completely missing – but it was recorded that the left testicle was absent.

During World War II, Allied soldiers sang a raunchy song with lyrics about the Fuhrer having a biological shortcoming, as well as musings about the size or absence of genitalia belonging to Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Goring and Joseph Goebbels.

If so, this might explain why Hitler had no children, since the condition can involve reduced fertility, a UK Telegraph report said.

There had been long-running speculation that Hitler may have lost a testicle after a shrapnel injury sustained during his service in the First World War.