Hitler Has Only Got One Ball Quotation Variants See Also

It has been stated that Hitler's autopsy revealed that he was indeed monorchic, but the confirmation comes from Soviet sources who may have had propaganda reasons for the assertion. When mentioned, the song asserts that Hitler lacked the right testicle, but the autopsy states that it was the left testicle that was missing.

In his autobiography Fringe Benefits, well-connected Anglo-Irish gadabout and publicist Donough O'Brien claims the original was written by his father, Toby O'Brien, also a publicity agent, in August, 1939 as British propaganda. [1]

This purported original version started with the words " Göring has only got one ball", and went on to imply that Hitler had two small ones. This is in contrast to virtually all later versions, in which the positions were reversed. In another variation from the later form, the final line of this original ends with the almost musical-comedy word play that Goebbels had "noebbels". Both these variations argue strongly in favor of this being a very early version.

No author has ever been identified for the more popular versions that begin "Hitler has only got one ball" or "Hitler has got one left ball". The statement that Himmler was "sim'lar" appears in all versions.

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1 Quotation

From The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler (1978), by Robert G.L. Waite (but subject to others' elaborations):

Since the matter is of considerable importance to the psychological development of Hitler from infancy onward, let us pause here and come to grips with the problem of the Fuehrer's testicles. It can now be affirmed that the British Tommies were right all along in the first line of their version of the Colonel Bogey March, they were although manifestly mistaken in the last - that is to say, unless Goebbels' 5 children were the progeny of adoption, paternal surrogacy or some hitherto unconsidered, presumably unpalatable "Gott mit uns" form of divine intervention.

The autopsy performed by the Red Army pathologists on Hitler's body... [produced clear] findings:

The left testicle could not be found either in the scrotum or on the spermatic cord inside the inguinal canal, or in the small pelvis...

2 Variants

This purported original version is interesting in that Göring has the one ball and Hitler apparently has two:

Göring has only got one ball

Hitler's [are] so very small

Himmler's so very similar

And Goebbels has noebbels at all!

That it starts with Göring and the musical comedy word play of rhyming Goebbels with "noebbels" both argue in favor of this being a very early version.

Variant number 1

Hitler has only got one ball,

Göring has two but very small,

Himmler has something sim'lar,

But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all.

Variant number 2

Hitler has only got one ball,

The other is in the Albert Hall

His mother, the dirty bugger,

Cut it off when he was small.

A second verse is sometimes added:

She threw it into a great big tree

It fell in-to the deep blue sea

The fishes grabbed their dishes

And ate scallops and bollocks for tea

Variant number 3

Frankfurt has only one beer hall,

Stuttgart, die München all on call,

Munich, vee lift our tunich,

To show vee "Cherman" have no balls at all.

Variant number 4

Hitler has only got one ball,

The other is in the old town hall,

His mother, she pinched the other,

Now Hitler ain't got none at all!

Variant number 5

Hans Otto is very short, not tall,

And blotto, for drinking Singhai and Skol.

A "Cherman", unlike Bruce Erwin,

Because Hans Otto has no balls at all.

Variant number 6 In Thomas Pynchon's novel V., the following variant is sung by British artillerymen in Malta in 1940.

Hitler has only one left ball

Göring has two but they are small.

Himmler was somewhat similar

And poor old Goebbels has no balls at all

Not a variant, but a theory on the source of the problem

Whistle while you work

Hitler is a jerk

Mussolini bit his weenie

That's why it won't work

Variant of above theory

Whistle while you work.

Hitler was a jerk.

Mussolini bit his weenie

Now it doesn't work.

Variant number 7

Hitler, he only had one ball

Göring had two but very small

Himmler, had something sim'lar

And only Goeballs had no-balls at all.

Variant number 8 (as used live by Bette Midler):

Hitler had only one big ball

Göring had two but they were small

Himmler had something sim'lar

And poor old Goeballs had no balls at all.

Variant number 9

Hitler has only one left ball,

Goebbels has two but they're quite small

Himmler has something sim'lar,

And Mussolini hasn't any, at all!

3 See also

Discrediting tactics
One-Balled Dictator (cocktail)

4 External links

Did Hitler have only one testicle? from The Straight Dope
A British songbook
A British Soldier Remembers, songs and lyrics of World War II
Colonel Bogey Bush
Three verses worth

Comedy Propaganda examples World War II Songs

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