New Ebook Claims Hitler Gave Intercourse Dolls to Nazi Troopers

After intensive testing Himmler ordered 50 dolls for his personal troops. However by 1942 the social gathering management had pulled the wire on the mission. Embarrassed troopers refused to hold the “comforters,” and officers nervous that their males could be mocked if captured by the enemy.  American and British forces doubtless destroyed the gynoid factories  throughout their bomb raids of Dresden.

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Writer Graeme Donald uncovered the intercourse toy operation whereas researching his ebook Mussolini’s Barber, a compilation of probably the most weird tales in army historical past. He made the invention whereas retracing the footsteps of People Ruth and Elliot Handler, the inventors of the Barbie doll. They created their iconic toy after visiting Germany in 1956 and shopping for the Bild Lilli doll—an grownup novelty merchandise offered in German barber outlets and nightclubs.

“Whereas I used to be researching this I got here throughout references to Nazi intercourse dolls and discovered that Hitler had ordered them to be made,” Donald says. “As ever, extra troops have been laid low by illness than by bullets. Syphilis was an issue Hitler was conscious of and he was rumored to have suffered from it himself.” (by way of the Solar)

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