During WWII there was a British song called "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball." Was this due to common knowledge, or just playful mockery that happened to be true?
I don t think it is even true about the testicle. In italy everybody used to say mussolini only had one ball so this is just a little bit to much of a coincidence. Is there any convincing source over this monoball thing?
Ok, to be completely honest, I haven't seen the alleged evidence Mayo and Cragie put forth for this although an article in the Guardian claims it comes from medical records taken down after Hitler's arrest subsequent to the Beer Hall Putsch attempt.
However, this is a fairly new development and the 1940s song about Hitler's testicles was to a degree of almost certainty not based on this information. This especially so as Hitler's childhood doctor, Eduard Bloch, had emigrated to the US in 1938 and had testified to American interrogators that everything was fine with Hitler's genitals.
Sources:
Eduard Bloch: My Patient Hitler. In: Collier’s Weekly, March 15. and March 22. 1941.
Eduard Bloch: The Autobiography of Obermedizinalrat Eduard Bloch. In: J. A. S. Grenville and Raphael Gross (Eds.): The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, XLVII (2002)
Office of Strategic Services, Hitler Source Book, Interview With Dr. Eduard Bloch March 5, 1943.
Is the recent book enough to say it is true? I'm not familiar with Mayo and Craigie.