The Plot to Make Hitler a Woman Written by Ronan

When you’re battling with a maniac on the scale of Hitler, pretty much any unhinged suggestion for defeating him is on the table. And so it was that during World War II, British intelligence apparently greenlit a Blackadder-esque plan to turn Hitler into a woman.

According to The Telegraph, the planned gender reassignment, which was kept secret for more than half a century, was to be achieved by bribing Hitler’s gardener to inject oestrogen into the Führer’s carrots. Unlike flat-out poisoning his veggies, these tasteless and slow acting hormones would be able to get past his phalanx of food testers without triggering any alarms.

Outdated gender politics aside, the crux of the idea was that Hitler would either become less aggressive due to the onset of a ‘feminine’ outlook (it’s pretty obvious these guys were before Maggie Thatcher’s time), or he would lose confidence and respect by growing breasts and losing the iconic moustache.

Unsurprisingly, the folly of this so-called 'destabilisation program' failed, sparing the world from frustrating gender debates the case study would no doubt have produced. Though not, sadly, from Hitler.