A new book claims British spies planned to feed Hitler female hormones to make him less aggressive. Picture: File Source: AAP
A NEW book about bizarre World Word II plots claims British spies planned to spike Adolf Hitler's food with female sex hormones in a bid to make him less aggressive.
Estrogen in the Nazi leader's meals would ? unlike drugs ? be undetectable when his food was tested before being served to him.
The story is contained in Professor Brian Ford's new book Secret Weapons: Technology, Science And The Race To Win World War II, due to be released next month.
"He had testers who used to taste his food. There was no mileage to putting poison in his food because they would immediately fall victim to it," Prof Ford said.
"Sex hormones were a different matter. They only affected you if you took them for weeks or months on end, so no one would have ever realized that the hormones were in the food."
�Read the full story at the Daily Mail
Ultimately, the estrogen plot never got far beyond the drawing board. Other unlikely ideas included disguising bombs as tins of fruit and dropping glue onto German soldiers to stick them to the ground.
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