Weeks and months dragged on into years, and with them came more and more plots of how to win the war. Some were impractical, some were impossible, and some were downright insane.
But every now and again, one of these plots would be just insane enough to work.
And so, out of this think tank came possibly one of military history’s greatest-ever schemes.
What if we turned Adolf Hitler into a woman?
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Sources for this episode's research:
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-15/allies-planned-to-make-hitler-a-woman/2839874
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hitler-estrogen-hormone-plot_n_927281
- https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/book-claims-allies-tried-to-turn-the-fuhrer-into-a-female-464589
- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2025975/Hitler-hormone-plot-Bizarre-plan-British-spies-make-Fuhrer-fraulein.html
- https://theweek.com/articles/482449/bizarre-plan-turn-hitler-into-woman
- https://medium.com/the-collector/the-bizzare-plot-to-turn-hitler-into-a-woman-185bc837eba5
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8701024/Revealed-sex-hormone-plan-to-feminise-Hitler.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Has_Only_Got_One_Ball
- https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/hitlers-psychological-profile-shows-feminine-side/72P2CQ6HYWXN6NHH57GO57FMRU/?c_id=2&objectid=10118222
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