Monorchid – 1: (adjective.) (of a person or animal) having only one testicle.
2: (noun.) A person or animal having only one testicle.
The other day I was wondering in my brain like I do sometimes, and I thought to myself I wonder what Hitler was like as a person.
I know he was painted out to be a monster and you’d think so by listening to his speeches, (and of course the Holocaust) but what of his vegetarianism, his love of nature / mountains and of animals and children.
So I have a look online to see if I could come up with some kind of answer about what kind of man he really was, especially to others around him, was he a dick or a man you could have 75th birthday parties with?
Albert Speer was the first port of call for me as Speer was one of the lucky (or unlucky depending on your viewpoint) Nazi’s who escaped death.
Speer was the minister for armaments and war production during Hitler’s third Reich.
He was one such important person of note for someone like myself trying to find out more about Hitler, and as Albert Speer was well known, a German and a Nazi and wrote two books, Inside the Third Reich and Spandau: The Secret Diaries, the later of which is more concerned with Hitler and his own relationship to him – I thought I better read more on the subject.
It has been said that Speer and the people behind editing the books (some of which were financed by Speer during his incarceration) minimized any blame towards Speer having anything to do with the ‘final solution’ and thereby he cannot be by definition a source that can be widely trusted, so maybe he shouldn’t be trusted with talking or writting about Hitler.
Speer made the claim that he himself (Speer not Hitler) was an apolitical technocrat and he also claimed at the Nuremberg Trials that he was unaware of Nazi extermination plans, which could of prevented him from swinging on the end of a rope. It certainly did as mentioned above, he was imprisoned and did time.
There are some historians that also argue that Speer not only knew about the final solution but was a key player in it’s instrumentation – Visiting concentration camps and the like, and even allegedly commenting in a letter he sent in 1971 to a Hélène Jeanty, (a Belgian resistance fighter’s widow), that ‘There is no doubt, I was present as Himmler announced on October 6, 1943, that all Jews would be killed’.
That aside it would be interesting to read the books for myself to have glimpse at what Hitler was like as a bloke.
Speer died in London in 1981 of a stroke aged 76, having served his 20 year sentence in Spandau prison in Berlin.
So during my online forays I also came across the Hitler / Mannerheim tape of Hitler talking in his everyday voice to Finnish military commander Carl Gustaf Mannerheim.
It’s the only known existing recording of Hitler’s normal voice, taken on Mannerheim’s 75th birthday on the 4th of June 1942.
What stuck me is how different the voice is to compared with the voice of Hilter in his rally speeches… A much deeper and a more calm tone, listen for yourself below…
It actually shows someone who knew the war was lost a lot longer than perhaps TV and movies might portray him doing so. No doubt that as things progressed his ability to control things as well as the medication he was prescribed, may of made him more of an anxiety ridden creature?
It got me thinking about the tone, and how having a deep voice is allegedly (but not actually true) supposed to be because someone with lots of testosterone would possibly have two big heavy balls.
No, but in a way the organisational structures around the man led to his downfall, with these things blame I suppose cannot always be attributed to one individual, half of the people around Hitler were in competition with each other whether through his own design or just happenstance, or both.
It’s what happens when people are just really efficient at obeying rules.
But, back to his balls, or lack of one…
Now I thought Hitler was only supposed to have one ball, (the other according to one song is in the Albert Hall, why in London I dunno?) historians pointing out that in the battle of the Somme, (WW1) Hitler as a young messenger /soldier got hit by a fragment of a shell which apparently to some historians hit Adolf in the ‘upper thigh’ area – Was this a polite way of saying testicles back in those days?
He was certainly no Monorchid, especially not with Mannerheim as far as I can hear from the tape, granted he is no Barry White, but it’s deep enough.
As Mussolini would say, ‘He hasa big set of Italian ballsa’ – Although Hitler was Austrian.
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