Medical record shows Hitler had only one testicle

A German historian has uncovered Adolf Hitler’s long-lost medical records which confirm the urban legend that the Nazi leader only had one testicle.

There have been many speculations that Hitler was missing one testicle since the Battle of the Somme in the First World War.

Now, the doctor’s notes that were thought to be missing for years reappeared at an auction in 2010, Reuters reports – which were then confiscated by the Bavarian government and have only now been properly studied.

Reports reveal that on November 12, 1923, Hitler had to undergo a medical examination on his arrival at Landsberg prison, after his arrest following the failure of his first attempt to seize power in the Munich Beer Hall Putsch.

The records of that examination clearly state that Hitler suffered from “right-side cryptorchidism” – a condition in which a testicle fails to descend into the scrotum – according to Professor Peter Fleischmann of Erlangen-Nuremberg University.

If Hitler did have an undescended testicle, it could explain why he had no children, since the condition is often linked to low fertility.