Hitler's Sex Life

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

History Hit

Society, Sex, Scandal, Education, History

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

We all know how the song goes, the one about Hitler having one testicle.

And whilst it's disarming to poke fun at someone so evil, there's an interesting and serious conversation to be had about how Hitler's relationships and sexuality could have shaped him.

Today Kate is joined by Norman Ohler, author of Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany, to find out more about Adolf Hitler's personal life, his views on sex, and whether there's any truth to the rumours.

Did Hitler have a testicle bitten off by a goat? Was his interest in coprophilia true, or anti-Nazi propaganda? And who was the love of his life?

Let's go Betwixt the Sheets to find out.

This podcast was edited and produced by Stuart Beckwith. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.

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0:18.0	Hello my lovely betwixters, it's it's Kate Lister I am here you are here and really that's the important bit of this whole thing if you're not here it's just me talking smut to absolutely nobody at all but since you are here and you are
0:35.5	going to listen to this I have to give you a warning I have to give you the fair dues
0:40.6	warning because fair dues you can't get mad at us if you get upset at what follows you can't get mad at us if you get upset at what follows because fair do's we did warn you.
0:47.0	Here it is.
0:48.0	This is an adult podcast spoken by adults to other adults about adulty things in an adult way covering a range of adult subjects and you should be an adult too.
0:57.0	Got that? I've certainly got that.
0:59.7	Right, fair dues, let's do this! It's the early
1:05.0	It's the early 1940s,
1:11.0	it's the early 1940ss and while the horrors of World War II are raging on here in the Bavarian Alps,
1:18.7	Bird Song can be heard through the clean mountain air. At the Berghoff retreat, the mountain escape Hitler bought with money from his book Mine Camps.
1:27.0	Guests are entertained. His much, much younger partner, Ava Braun practices yoga and parties with her friends,
1:36.0	and political meetings are held late into the night fuelled by a cocktail of drugs.
1:42.0	Hitler will leave the retreat in 1944 never to return before
1:46.2	it's eventually demolished in 1952 but what really went on behind those doors.
1:52.2	It's an uncomfortable thought to put it mildly, but how
1:55.9	might Hitler's private and sexual self have shaped his political and public self?
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