TURNING HITLER INTO A FEMINAZI

Adolf Hitler's staff employed over a dozen female food tasters to sample his meals to ensure that they were not poisoned. This was not a voluntary position, and the tasters were not free to leave the premises. However, especially considering that they were well fed, it was a far better gig that many persons had during the course of the war. The tasters would eat the same victuals as Hitler (primarily fruits, vegetables, and pastries, although he once in a while dabbled in ham or sausage), but they did so an hour before he did in order for any poisoning symptoms to have time to manifest themselves.

Hitler had terrible table manners and frequently wiped his nose on his napkin or shirtsleeve. His dining companions were often immersed in a cloud of his pastry-induced flatulence, but most wisely chose to pretend that nothing was happening.

The American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) bribed Hitler's gardener in Berchtesgaden to lace Hitler's vegetables with large quantities of estrogen. The estrogen would not have had any obvious or immediate effects on the female tasters and thus would not have been detected, but the OSS hoped that it would have caused Hitler to lose his moustache, develop an even higher-pitched voice, and grow large breasts, all of which would diminish his luster in the eyes of his followers. The gardener took the bribe but apparently did not follow through with his assignment--or maybe he did, but the estrogen simply did not work.

For more information about the fun activities of the OSS, read the 1962 book by Stanley P. Lowell, Of Spies and Stratagems, or look at the digest of same in the July, 1963, edition of Popular Science.