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Langer's 1943 prediction is a description of what actually happened in 1945, Historian Waite writes. As it became increasingly evident that Hitler could not vanquish the Allies, "he manufactured ruthless 'victories' over the Jews in the gas ovens." At the same time, he vowed to destroy Germany itself. "Not a German stock of wheat is to feed the enemy," cried a Hitler-approved editorial, "not a German hand to offer him help. He is to find nothing but death, annihilation and hatred."
* What Langer could not know when he made his study was that Hitler's genitals were malformed. After an autopsy in 1945, Russian doctors reported that "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." Such a deformity is not uncommon and has no important physiological consequences, but it causes serious emotional disturbances in some men.