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Research: Hitler Had Only One Testicle

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A German historian has examined the Fuhrer's medical notes.

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The urban legend that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle may be right. Long-lost medical records unearthed by a German historian show that Hitler had “right-side cryptorchidism,” or an undescended right testicle. Professor Peter Fleischmann of Erlangen-Nuremberg University, the researcher who studied the records, told German newspaper Bild that the medical notes show that the testicle was “probably stunted.” The records therefore contradict a long-running rumor that Hitler had lost a testicle to shrapnel at the Battle of the Somme in World War I.

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