The Nazi leader ordered the Nazis to develop so-called sex dolls to help keep his troops away from French women-who his henchmen said had been giving them sexually transmitted diseases and keeping them off the battlefield. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
Adolf Hitler wanted his soldiers’ women to be dolls – literally.
The secret project, known as the “Borghild Project,” was discovered by author Graeme Donald while he was researching the history of the Barbie doll.
The project began in 1940 when SS chief Henrich Himmler wrote that the “greatest danger in Paris is the widespread and uncontrolled presence of whores, picking up clients in bars, dance halls, and other places.”
“It is our duty to prevent soldiers from risking their health for the sake of a quick adventure,” he said in a memo.
The blond, blue-eyed dolls were small enough to fit in backpacks.
The project ended nearly two years after it began because soldiers were scared that they would face enormous embarrassment if caught by the enemy with the dolls.
Evidence of the dolls was later destroyed in the bombing of Dresden, Donald says.
