# They Stole Hitler's Brain! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 18, 2002, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-stole-hitlers-brain/137313 "2002-11-18T16:05:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-stole-hitlers-brain/137313/1 "2002-11-18T16:05:11Z")
Well, not _Hitler’s_, but get a load of _this!_ “BERLIN (AP) – The brains of three leading terrorists who committed suicide in a German jail in 1977 have vanished from the lab where they were taken for autopsy, a magazine reported Sunday. Der Spiegel’s report added a macabre new twist to a controversy surrounding Red Army Faction leader Ulrike Meinhof since it emerged that her brain was preserved for research after her 1976 suicide. German prosecutors, alerted by Meinhof’s twin daughters, demanded last week that a university professor who had been studying the brain since 1997 return it.” —The professor, one Dr. Eric Vornoff, is quoted as saying, “Home? I haff no home! Hanted . . despised… liffing like an animal – de jongle is my home! But I vill show de vorld dat I can be its master. I shall perfect my own rice of pipple – a rice of atomic supermen dat will conquer de vorld!” ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-stole-hitlers-brain/137313/2 "2002-11-18T16:16:49Z")
\ always thought **Race of Atomic Supermen** would make a great band name \ ahem, sorry about that, do carry on… ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-stole-hitlers-brain/137313/3 "2002-11-18T16:29:11Z")
Yes, but is it safe? I don’t know what you’re talking about. Hmmm…is it safe? What? Is what safe? Is it safe? I’m sorry, but you’re going to have to…AHHHHHHHHHHH! I ask you again…Is it safe? Yes, it is…it is so safe you wouldn’t believe it… Once more…is it safe? ---
**Author:** ![EchoKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@EchoKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EchoKitty)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-stole-hitlers-brain/137313/4 "2002-11-18T16:34:55Z")
I dunno…Abby something…Abby Normal, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-stole-hitlers-brain/137313/5 "2002-11-18T17:37:03Z")
“And it’s up to you to save it!!!” ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-stole-hitlers-brain/137313/6 "2002-11-18T18:00:18Z")
“Brain and brain! What is ‘brain’?” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-stole-hitlers-brain/137313/7 "2002-11-18T18:31:10Z")
I promize to keep ze head for Goder or for Bader. Jack meinhoff ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-stole-hitlers-brain/137313/8 "2002-11-18T19:35:42Z")
Enter Macduff with MacBeth’s head on a pike. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-stole-hitlers-brain/137313/9 "2002-11-18T19:45:12Z")
". . . He peppered in God’s lo mein . . . " ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-stole-hitlers-brain/137313/10 "2002-11-18T19:56:58Z")
What did the professor actually say? “I must have misplaced it?” I am shocked. Please, no fava beans and chianti jokes. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-stole-hitlers-brain/137313/11 "2002-11-18T20:14:39Z")
The only actual quotes, from two different professors, were, “They’re not here anymore,” and, “I gave no order to remove them.” Said with creepy, ominous German accents, of course. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-stole-hitlers-brain/137313/12 "2002-11-18T20:38:40Z")
Zey ver following orders that ver not given. Ve are not cloning. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-stole-hitlers-brain/137313/13 "2002-11-18T20:51:02Z")
Didn’t they also steal JFK’s brain? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-stole-hitlers-brain/137313/14 "2002-11-19T17:16:24Z")
Quite the opposite, they distributed it to the public. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-stole-hitlers-brain/137313/15 "2002-11-19T18:51:23Z")
Ouch! ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-stole-hitlers-brain/137313/16 "2002-11-19T22:48:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LouisB \* > \*\*Didn’t they also steal JFK’s brain? \*\* Yeah, someone did. And nobody raised hell about it at all. If it was a basic no name murder and someone stole the brain of the deceased all hell would break loose, lawyers would call for tampering, people would be fired/sued/interrogated/investigated. But nothing happened. And this was a United States President, not Joe Shmoe Six pack. Makes you wonder… ---
**Author:** ![glarGH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/76d3ee/32.png) [@glarGH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glarGH)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-stole-hitlers-brain/137313/17 "2002-11-19T23:40:31Z")
Well, the Angry Samoans say: > [@](#): > > They saved Hitler’s Cock! They Hid it under a rock!