Adolf Hitler remains one of history’s most studied and reviled figures — yet beyond the textbook horror of the Holocaust and World War II lies a more unsettling portrait. The personal psychology, the obsessions, the blind spots, and the bizarre contradictions of the man who dragged the world into catastrophe are, in many ways, more…
Once again, the question of Hitler’s alleged undescended testicle has come into the public glare. Channel 4, a TV network in the United Kingdom, is broadcasting a documentary, Hitler’s DNA: Blueprint of a Dictator, where a blood-drenched piece of fabric from the sofa Hitler was sitting on when he blew his brains out is analysed…
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