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A Scheme to Feminize the Fuhrer, and Other Strange Historic Plans

Khalid Elhassan July 16, 2024 30 min

Scheme - A womanly Hitler was thought to be a less effective Hitler — A womanly Hitler was thought to be a less effective Hitler. Open Art

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Where Did We Find This Stuff? Some Sources and Further Reading

American Battlefield Trust – Lincoln Rejects the King of Siam’s Offer of Elephants

Atavist – American Hippopotamus: A Bracing and Eccentric Epic of Espionage and Hippos

Bentley, Matthew A. – Spaceplanes: From Airport to Spaceport (2009)

Blair, Clay Jr. – Hitler’s U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942 (1996)

Blair, Clay Jr. – Hitler’s U-Boat War: The Hunted, 1942-1945 (1996)

Boing Boing – US Air Force Proposal: Pause the Earth’s Rotation So Nukes Would Miss Targets

Cracked – 13 WWII-Era Plans That Sound Like Bond Supervillain Schemes

Emerging Civil War – Reality vs Myth Regarding Abraham Lincoln’s War Elephants

Ford, Brian J. – Secret Weapons: Technology, Science and the Race to Win World War II (2013)

History Collection – Thomas Fitzpatrick Landed a Plane on the Streets of New York While Drunk

Los Angeles Times, June 7^th, 1987 – Bizarre Lives Bared of Star, Son Accused of Her Murder

Mental Floss – The Time the Allies Tried to Disarm Hitler With Female Sex Hormones

Miller, David – U-Boats (2000)

Mysteries of Canada – Joseph Guay, the Worst Mass Murder in North America

New Scientist, August 20^th, 2008 – The Soviet Ape-Man Scandal

New Yorker, November 7^th, 1953 – It Has No Name

Pennsylvania Gazette, November 1^st, 1998 – The Flu of 1918

Scotsman, The, December 20^th, 2005 – Stalin’s Half-Man, Half-Ape Super Warriors

Smithsonian Magazine, September 21^st, 2018 – Philadelphia Threw a WWI Parade That Gave Thousands of Onlookers the Flu

Times, The, January 18^th, 2018 – JFK Files Reveal That CIA Urged Hollywood Actress to Sleep With King Hussein of Jordan

U-Boat Aces – Rocket U-Boat Program

Vice – She Was the Last Woman Executed in Canada

We Are the Mighty – America Wanted to Stop Earth’s Rotation During Cold War

Wired – The Crazy, Ingenious Plan to Bring Hippopotamus Ranching to America

Written by

Khalid Elhassan

A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.

I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.

A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.

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