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Wars have made up a significantly large
portion of our history as the human race.

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And yet one war in particular,
and in fact, one man in

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particular, keeps cropping up amidst history's
weirdest stories. As you would have seen

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in the title of this episode,
yes, I am once again exploring a

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bizarre food related story from history then
in some way involves Adolf Hitler. Now,

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if you haven't already listened to the
entire back catalog, you may get

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a kick out of the episode about
Hitler's plan to harvest whales from the South

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Pole in order to keep up German
Margarine supplies, or his plot to assassinate

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Winston Churchill with an exploding chocolate bar. And yet this story may in fact

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be by far the strangest of them
all. So let's roll into the intro

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and any ads, if there are
any, and in dive write in these

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are the bizarre but true stories from
history that in some way involved food.

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I'm Nick Charlie Key, and this
is the fantastic history of food. Do

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you like candy? Do you like
candy? Do you like candy? If

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you answered yes to any of the
above questions, then candy is dandy is

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the right podcast for you. Candy
Is Dandy is the world's only candy review

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podcast, and we know that because
we looked as deep as a third ozho

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in a Google search. Every first
and third Wednesday of the month, we

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pick a different candy, give you
its history, taste it, live,

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and review it and rate it.
We've tried candy such as Snickers, Butterfingers,

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Dailly Belly, Jellybeans, and we've
had a cavalcade of celebrity guests such

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as The Three Musketeers, Bazooka Joe, and comedy Bang Bangs Carl Tart.

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So download and subscribe to Candy's Dandy
anywhere podcasts are found. When I first

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stumbled upon the story while conducting research
for another episode, I thought I was

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reading an out of date April Fool's
prank. Surely this couldn't rarely be true.

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But the more I read into it, it turns out that it was

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in fact a real plot that the
Allies were cooking up as one more method

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to turn the tide of the war
in their favor. It reads like something

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out of a comic book or an
episode of an old British sitcom with slapstick

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caricatures. Of wartime shenanigans. But
again I must assure you that the following

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story was indeed a real military plot, cooked up, excuse the pun,

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by Allied intelligence agencies. The Second
World War was raging onwards, with men

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fighting and dying each and every day. It was so delicately poised that there

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seemed to be no end to the
fighting in sight. Days, weeks,

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and even months dragged on into years, and with them came more more plots

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of how to win the war.
Some were impractical, some were impossible,

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and some were downright insane. But
every now and again one of these plots

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would be just insane enough to work. And so out of this think tank

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came possibly one of military history's greatest
ever schemes. What if we turned Hitler

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into a woman? Well, not
actually turn him into a woman, per

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se, but what if we could
bring out more of his effeminate side,

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turned down the volume on his tyrannical
ranting, calmed down his wild gesticulating on

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stage, and maybe even cause him
to become more cautious from his clearly displayed

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gung home military style to date.
It was well known that Hitler had a

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younger sister named Paula, who,
by contrast to her megalomaniac brother, was

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rather shy, reserved and quiet.
While the hope amongst the Allies was that

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these same tendencies lived deep within Adolf
too, if they could force him to

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tap into them. Now that all
sounded well and good, if a little

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far fetched, But how would they
go about actually doing something like this now?

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The idea was borne out of existing
research being done in London around the

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topic of sex therapy and the importance
of sex hormones on the body. They

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were already popular sentiments swirling around the
world about the nature of Hitler's sexuality.

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To begin with, there was infamous
rumor subsequently proven to be true, that

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he only had one testicle, made
famous by the comedy wartime Troop song,

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whose lyrics include the lines Hitler has
only got one ball, Gering has two,

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but very small. Himler has something
similar, but poor old Gebels has

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no balls at all. In fact, why don't we have a quick listen

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to a short clip of a bet
Middler rendition of this famous old war ditty.

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Hitler one Gary had too bad,
they weren't small. Himmler had something

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similer at all. Reading up to
tempo. Up to tempo for a second.

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Here we go Hitler. He had
only one baball Gary, and he

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had to buy. Weren't small either, Imbler well. Along with his missing

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testicle came accusations calling his sexuality into
question. He had started adult life as

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an artist and a painter in the
romantic style, and throughout his childhood he'd

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been a rather sickly boy, never
engaging in sports or manual labor of any

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kind. In the nineteen forties,
this was essentially all the proof you needed

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to cast any spursions you may care
to choose upon your intended target. However,

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a wartime report from nineteen forty three, written by a Harvard psychiatrist by

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the name of doctor Henry A.
Murray, the same psychiatrist who would go

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on to examine and test the Unibummer
in the late nineteen fifties, made some

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interesting conclusions about Hitler's state of mind
and the possible causal links to his aggressive

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and world dominating ideals. Studying Hitler's
biography Mind Coumph, as well as a

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plethora of his other writings, it
was clear to doctor Murray that Hitler did

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indeed struggle to come to terms with
his own sexuality in one way or another,

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and that this struggle and his associated
physical failings in the bedroom caused him

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to express exorbitant cravings for superiority.
Now, doctor Murray believed that right below

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his grandiose surface was a terrified man
struggling to understand himself and the world around

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him, and that the only thing
that made sense to him was to burden

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all doubt. The Allied intelligence agencies
viewed this information with interest and began hatching

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a plan to bring out that side
of him that they believed lay just beneath

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the surface, and in doing so
rob him of much of his image,

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stature, and status amongst his German
supporters. Their plan was simple. They

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were going to lace Hitler's food with
estrogen so that within a few months his

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femininity would come to the foe,
and more importantly, that his aggression levels

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would drop, resulting in a slackening
off of German military efforts. More so,

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even than the military benefits of the
plan was the possibility of this plot

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embarrassing and discrediting the Nazi leader in
the eyes of those who looked up to

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him. The Allies believed that the
hormones in his food would aid in the

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rapid onset of hair loss, and
would tamper with his infamous rally speeches by

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altering his voice to a more high
pitched soprano. Now you may be asking,

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if you have access to his food, why not just poison it and

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have him done with once and for
all. Well, my friends, if

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you're asking that question, you may
not be cut out for military counterintelligence just

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yet. You see, Hitler was
a paranoid man. He had survived multiple

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assassination attempts from both inside and outside
of his own military, and had long

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since put in place measures to try
and mitigate against anything like that happening again.

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So poisoning his food was not an
option because he had a horde of

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food tasters, just like the kings
of olden day history, to make sure

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that his food was okay to consume
before he himself would eat any of it,

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Which brings us to the long term
genius of this plan. You see,

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First of all, estrogen is tasteless, and so it wouldn't be picked

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up by himself or any of his
tasters. Secondly, the plan was never

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meant as a one and done solution. Rather, they would have agents on

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the inside slowly smuggling the issue into
his meals over the course of a few

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months. This was planned so that
the changes in his personality and or body

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would happen imperceptibly slowly until it was
too late. Now, as wild and

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out there as it sounds, this
plan was actually plausible. The Allies had

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agents in the right places to administer
the hormones into his food, and they

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had the means by which to smuggle
the hormones to those agents. But for

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whatever reason, when it came to
crunch time, they put the plan on

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hold and ultimately found the war had
ended before they could ever revisit it as

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an idea. As the years pass
and more and more documents become declassified,

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we are constantly being treated to a
barrage of bizarre but brilliant stories from history

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that have just been waiting to be
told. In some of these documents,

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we find that the British and Allied
forces were in fact not alone in their

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food based wartime plotting. Recently discovered
Nazi documents speak of their own far fetched

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schemes to murder and maime Allied troops
in the event that Germany lost the war.

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In their withdrawal of towns and villagers. They planned to leave behind poisoned

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sausages, poisoned chocolate, and even
poisoned coffee in the hopes that Allied troops

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would find them and then consume them. They had even given out secret powders

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to sympathetic supporters, and they occupied
towns and villages in the event of their

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withdrawal, that these supporters should pretend
to welcome in the Allied forces, offer

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to make them food, and then
dust the powder over the meals. Upon

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the consumption of the meal, the
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Now, there are no stories of
any of these sorts of things actually happening

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towards the end of the war,
as I believe for most of the soldiers

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they were just too tired of fighting, killing and dying. But for a

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while towards the end, after capturing
German spies who spoke of these plans under

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the name Operation Werewolf Commanders. We're
concerned enough about the possibility of it happening

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as to forbid any soldiers from eating
German food found in these towns, upon

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the pain of very harsh consequences should
they not comply. As with all of

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these sorts of bizarre stories from history, and especially these ones that so very

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nearly happened. I've always left with
a sense of wonder and amusement upon contemplating

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the what ifs? Should any of
these plans actually have gone ahead? And

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maybe if all of these Marvel movies
are right, and there are infinite multiverses

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just waiting to be explored well in
some way, and at least one of

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them, there's a very good chance
that Hitler grew breasts. Now that's a

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Marvel movie I'd watch. This show
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