Adolf Hitler was the subject of a British ‘hormone plot’ to lace his food with estrogen as a way of making the Nazi leader less aggressive and more like his secretary sister Paula, Professor Brian Ford has revealed in a new book.

Adolf Hitler was the subject of a hormone plot to make him less aggressive, a new book claims (Corbis)

British spies came up with the Blackadder-esque idea to smuggle the female sex hormone into Hitler’s food as the Second World War raged on with no end in sight, the book claims.

Estrogen was chosen for its tasteless properties, Professor Ford explains, and because of the fact it would have a slow and subtle effect, thereby making it able to pass the Fuhrer’s food testers unnoticed – unlike poison, for example.

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‘Research had showed the importance of sex hormones – they were beginning to be used in sex therapy in London,’ says the professor, a fellow at Cardiff University and a pioneer of popular science.




âThe Allies hoped to smuggle estrogen into Hitlerâs food and change his sex so he would become more feminine and less aggressive.âÂ

In his book, Secret Weapons: Technology, Science And The Race To Win World War II, the professor also reveals a number of other Allied plots hatched in an attempt to break the stalemate.

They ranged from dropping glue on Nazi troops to make them stick to the ground, to disguising bombs as tins of fruit being exported to Germany.

Another author recently unearthed similarly jaw-dropping revelations while researching a book called Mussolini’s Barber.

Graeme Donald discovered that Hitler ordered sex dolls to be sent to Nazi soldiers in an effort to prevent them contracting syphilis from prostitutes, since more troops were out of action because of disease than because of battle injuries during World War Two.

Meanwhile, in May, Cardiff Universityâs Dr Jan Bondeson revealed the Fuhrer had overseen an attempt to build an army of dogs that could read, talk and spell , with a special Nazi dog school set up in the 1930s.

The canine recruits were trained to speak and tap out signals using their paws, with one dog reportedly able to say ‘Mein Fuhrer’ when asked to identify the dictator himself.