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Declassified CIA files about Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler have made shocking claims about his sex life.
The evidence comes shortly after a new documentary examined the possibility that Hitler had a genetic disorder that could have had an unexpected effect on him.
This documentary, called Hitler's DNA: Blueprint of a Dictator, looked at a section of Hitler's actual DNA.
As the Soviet army fought street by street through Berlin in the final stages of World War 2 in Europe, Hitler and his closest staff hid in his bunker as Nazi soldiers fled west so they could surrender to the western allies rather than the USSR.
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Finally, on April 30 1945 the 56-year-old dictator responsible for the deaths of millions of people shot himself, and Nazi Germany surrendered shortly afterwards.
Hitler's body was burnt after his death, but traces of his blood recovered from the bunker indicate that the 56-year-old may have had Kallmann Syndrome, which can result in a micro-penis.
But now files reveal further information about Hitler, including his sex life.
Evidence from the Office of Strategic Services, which was a predecessor to the CIA, put together a 'biological sketch' of Hitler.
The eight page report was compiled in 1942 and attempted to map out everything about Hitler, and certainly didn't pull punches when it came to painting a vivid picture of the dictator.
In the report Hitler was described as a sexually frustrated sadomasochist, noting that he had often been seen carrying a whip in the 1930s, which was an 'auxiliary symbol of missing sexual potency'.
It says that Hitler had a strong sense of 'sexual inferiority', and even claimed that he was 'still in the essential meaning of the word a virgin'.
Hitler never fathered any children, and married Eva Braun in the bunker not long before the pair both died.
The 1942 report combined with the genetic analysis from the blood provides some fascinating insight about Hitler.
Professor Turi King, the lead geneticist on this research, said of the discovery: “If he was to look at his own genetic results, he would have almost certainly have sent himself to the gas chambers.”
The Nazis oversaw industrialised mass murder, targeting Jewish people in particular as a group considered impure under their ideology, as well as Romani people, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ people, and Eastern Europeans.
Those ideologically opposed to the Nazis were also targeted, such as communists and trade unionists.
Most of the murders took place in Eastern Europe, and while the gas chambers are the most infamous instrument of mass death, the Nazis also used other means such as starvation and death squads such as the einsatzgruppen to carry out their killing.
