Spies plotted to feed Hitler female hormones to win war
The British plotted to lace Adolf Hitler’s meals with sex hormones to make the Nazi leader more feminine like his younger sister, a new science book has revealed.
Explaining the bizarre plan in his new book, leading scientist Brian Ford said it was part of a top secret strategy by British spies to placate Hitler with doses of oestrogen and win World War II.
Professor Ford claims in ‘Secret Weapons: Technology, Science and the Race to Win World War II’, which is to be published next month, that the plan would have been possible had spies had access to the Fuhrer’s food.
It was believed that oestrogen would have curbed aggressive tendencies and made him more submissive like his younger sister, Paula Wolf.
The plot came to light for the first time after the professor researched recently declassified documents dating back to the war.
He said that the sex-change hormone was picked because of its tasteless nature and would have been overlooked by Hitler’s personal food testers.
In the book, Professor Ford writes: “Research had showed the importance of sex hormones, they were beginning to be used in sex therapy in London. The Allies hoped to smuggle oestrogen into Hitler's food and change his sex so he would become more feminine and less aggressive.”
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“Hitler had testers who used to taste his meals so there was no mileage in putting poison in his food because they would immediately fall victim to it. Sex hormones were a different matter.”
It continues: “They affected you only if you took them for months on end, so no one would have realised the hormones were in the food.”
Amongst the other tactics dreamed up to defeat Hitler and the Nazi regime, the Brits also considered dropping glue onto Nazi troops to make them stick to the ground.
