Everyone knows the rhyme about Adolf Hitler. The popular ribald wartime song, beloved of school children, has it that: ‘Hitler has only got one ball/ The other is in the Albert Hall/ Himmler is very similar/ And poor old Goebbels has no balls at all!’. The rhyme works, but is it right? A two-part Channel 4 documentary airing tonight suggests the verse about the Nazi dictator might not be entirely fictitious.

Now that same science has been deployed to help explain the deeds of the biggest criminal of them all: Adolf Hitler

Hitler’s DNA: Blueprint of a Dictator uses an analysis of his DNA to suggest he suffered from Kallmann Syndrome, which can affect the development of sexual organs. The DNA sample, found on a fading bloodstain on a sofa in the Berlin bunker where Hitler blew his brains

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