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40 years after the interview, relatives of the now-deceased Pawlar discovered the records, and provided them to a Polish author who published them as proof that Hitler was a monorchid. In essence, it's like gossip. Some Polish author published a 40+ year-old interview conducted by an amateur historian featuring a German army medic chronicling events more than 50 years after they took place. It's not reliable.
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I'm not expert, and I won't pretend to be, but it's likely that Hitler's alleged monorchism was just a silly rumor started in the 1930s and spread rapidly. Eager to deface their enemy, the Allied governments spurred the rumor, eventually culminating in the 1945 Soviet autopsy. So no, Hitler was probably not a monorchid.
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Hitler's alleged monorchism is just an example of how people are willing to believe all sorts of things about those they don't like. Not just individuals but governments too, are vulnerable. Hitler's medical records as taken by his personal physician show that he, in fact, had two testicles, not one.
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Other accounts supporting this rumor have surfaced. In the 1960s, a WWI army medic named Johan Jambor told an amateur historian that Hitler lost a testicle in a groin injury. The amateur historian, named
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Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler were not monorchids. I'm doubtful about Francisco Franco, but I have to look into it more to make a definite conclusion. I don't really want to go into Napoleon because the allegations of Napoleon's monorchism are unreliable, to say the least. However, I will
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The notion that Hitler was a monorchid arose from anti-Nazi propaganda during WWII. Although it's likely that the governments of the Allied
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Since there is no reliable evidence either way, and the question cannot therefore be answered, it seems reasonable to assume that he either had one ball or none at all. What about
Himmler ? I'm assuming that both were small innit.
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