When my grandfather was a young boy, he fled his home in Vienna to escape the Holocaust and arrived in New York City with not much more than his wood fiber pants, which had comically shrunken after getting soaked with salt water on the trip over. He would learn English, join the U.S. Army, earn his B.A. and Ph.D. in educational psychology, and eventually buy a house. He did this, in part, for me and my future—he escaped the worst kind of trauma and built a life in America so that I could write about Adolf Hitler’s possible micropenis.
In a new book entitled Hitler’s Last Day: Minute by Minute, historians suggest that one of the top villains in history may have been obviously compensating for his lacking artillery. After studying Hitler’s medical records, Jonathan Mayo and Emma Craigle conclude (via the Daily Star):
“Hitler himself is believed to have had two forms of genital abnormality: an undescended testicle [which we knew already] and a rare condition called penile Hypospadius in which the urethra opens on the under side of the penis.”