# Hitler Only Had One Testicle **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 20, 2015, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-only-had-one-testicle/740883 "2015-12-20T00:33:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-only-had-one-testicle/740883/1 "2015-12-20T00:33:20Z")
[So says _Haaretz_, quoting a real historian](http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/news/1.692624): > [@](#): > > A German historian claims to have discovered written proof verifying the myth that Adolf Hitler had only one testicle. > > In a new book published on Friday, Prof. Peter Fleischmann of the University of Erlangen says that he found proof of the German dictator’s undescended testicle in a file from Landsberg Prison, where Hitler was jailed after the abortive Beer Hall Putsch in November 1923. Now, from memory: Hitler has only got one ball! Goering has two but ve-ry small! Himmler! Has something sim’lar! And Goebbels! Has no balls! At all! Just thought you’d like to know. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-only-had-one-testicle/740883/2 "2015-12-20T00:57:00Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > [So says _Haaretz_, quoting a real historian](http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/news/1.692624):Now, from memory: > > Hitler has only got one ball! > Goering has two but ve-ry small! > Himmler! > Has something sim’lar! > And Goebbels! > Has no balls! > At all! > > Just thought you’d like to know. Sung to the tune of Colonel Bogey March. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-only-had-one-testicle/740883/3 "2015-12-20T01:16:50Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > [So says _Haaretz_, quoting a real historian](http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/news/1.692624): I missed the link to the real historian in that article. Can you help? [TMI]That said, I’ve got a testicle (my left one, for those keeping score at home) that every once in a while decides to migrate back up into my body temporarily. Should I have been medically examined at the right moment, I might have the same diagnosis. But I’ve got (counting. . . one. . . two) yes, two testicles.[/TMI] I still think this is just a bullshit story. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-only-had-one-testicle/740883/4 "2015-12-20T03:18:45Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > I missed the link to the real historian in that article. Can you help? Do you know something about Prof. Fleischmann that I don’t? ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-only-had-one-testicle/740883/5 "2015-12-20T03:59:11Z")
(first, for those unfamiliar. see [Undescended Testicle](http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/undescended-testicle/basics/definition/con-20037877)) Now: On to the IMPORTANT point: It is ‘had only one’, NOT ‘only had one’ ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-only-had-one-testicle/740883/6 "2015-12-20T04:10:29Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > [So says _Haaretz_, quoting a real historian](http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/news/1.692624):Now, from memory: > > Hitler has only got one ball! > Goering has two but ve-ry small! > Himmler! > Has something sim’lar! > And Goebbels! > Has no balls! > At all! > > Just thought you’d like to know. Then how the hell did they play tennis? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-only-had-one-testicle/740883/7 "2015-12-20T04:21:53Z")
> [@usedtobe](#): > > It is ‘had only one’, NOT ‘only had one’ Both are equally understandable, and therefore equally correct. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-only-had-one-testicle/740883/8 "2015-12-20T04:36:26Z")
According to my late grandmother that’s because he got one of them bitten off while trying to urinate into the mouth of a goat. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-only-had-one-testicle/740883/9 "2015-12-20T11:03:39Z")
Or from a WW1 injury. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-only-had-one-testicle/740883/10 "2015-12-20T11:55:47Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Then how the hell did they play tennis? New balls please! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-only-had-one-testicle/740883/11 "2015-12-20T11:57:58Z")
The story about the testicle being undescended can’t possibly be true. As we know, the other is is the Albert Hall. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-only-had-one-testicle/740883/12 "2015-12-20T18:52:34Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > Do you know something about Prof. Fleischmann that I don’t? That he runs a margarine business on the side? ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-only-had-one-testicle/740883/13 "2015-12-20T22:19:05Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > Both are equally understandable, and therefore equally correct. Wrong! “Only had one” means: he didn’t LIKE one, he didn’t WANT one, he only HAD one. “Only” - the most commonly misplaced modifier in the History of the English language. ---
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-only-had-one-testicle/740883/14 "2015-12-21T00:48:27Z")
Wow! I was just thinking of that jingle in those idle moments before getting out of bed in the morning yesterday. I tend to stumble for some reason when I get to Goering’s name so I was just trying to get through the whole thing twice without a mistake. By the way, the way I learned it is: Hitler has just one ball, Goering’s are rather small, Himmler’s are somewhat sim’lar, And Goebbels has no balls at all. Aaannd I’ll leave you with an appropriate-themed joke: How did Hitler tie his shoes? [SPOILER]In little Nazis. Get it? Knot-sies! Har har har![/SPOILER] ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-only-had-one-testicle/740883/15 "2015-12-22T14:47:38Z")
[A Straight Dope Classic](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/881/did-hitler-have-only-one-testicle) on the subject ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-only-had-one-testicle/740883/16 "2015-12-23T01:41:00Z")
I’ve only ever heard it as (in the UK): Hitler has only got one ball The other is in the Albert Hall His mother The silly bugger Cut it off when he was small