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I really hate to bring up the subject of Hitler's sex life on this perfectly lovely weekend, but a new book entitled Was Hitler Ill? talks in great detail about that very thing, reports Spiegel.

The book, written by Professors Henrik Eberle and Hans-Joachim Neumann, claims that the dictator took 82 different medications as he led Germany,  including an extract of testosterone that worked as a "primitive Viagra."  Theodor Morrell, the so-called "Reich syringe master," served as Hitler's doctor during World War II, and according to his letter in 1944 he began giving Hitler shots of testosterone along with the semen and prostate glands of young bulls.  (Hitler was 32 years older than his lover, Eva Braun; they married just one day before committing double-suicide in April of 1945.)

Hitler was also prescribed small doses of speed, methamphetamine, barbituates and opiates, at one point taking as many as twenty-eight medicines a day.  Most of these he took by injection, so afraid was he of pills.

Was Hitler Ill? (which, incidentally, sounds better in the original German: War Hitler Krank?)  spares no details, revealing that the genocidal leader also had a farting problem, and that he took large amounts of anti-flatulance drugs that included small amounts of strychnine.

All of the rumors about Hitler's manhood--that he only had one testicle or that his penis was deformed--are unmerited, the book's authors say.  They also say that he didn't appear to have syphilis, a widely-believed legend stemming from the fact that the Fuhrer spent fourteen pages talking about the disease in his autobiography.

Although this isn't the first time Germans have brought up Hitler's sex life lately, I'm sort of hoping that it will be the last.