Nazis Invented the Sex Doll

I'm not sure if this is a hoax or not, but it's funny as hell.

"It sounds like a bizarre joke, but it's a true story.

The "field-hygienic project" was an initiative of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, who regarded the doll as an "counterbalance" (or regulating effect) for the sexual drive of his stormtropers. In one his letters, dated 20.11.1940 he mentions the "unnessessary losses" the Wehrmacht had suffered in France inflicted by street prostitutes.
"The greatest danger in Paris are the wide-spread and uncontrolled whores, picking by clients in bars, dancehalls and other places. It is our duty to prevent soldiers from risking their health, just for the sake of a quick adventure."

The project was naturally kept top secret, but quite a bit of resources was put into creating the perfect aryan sex doll, to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, and, one assume, racial dilution of the great German army.

Psychiatrist Dr. Rudolf Chargeheimer wrote the following note as the project went forward:
"Sure thing, purpose and goal of the dolls is to relieve our soldiers. They have to fight and not be on the browl or mingle with "foreign womenfolk". However: no real men will prefer a doll to a real woman, until our technicians meet the following quality standards-

The synthetic flesh has to feel the same like real flesh
The doll’s body should be as agile and moveable as the real body
The doll’s organ should feel absolutely realistic."

Between June 1940 – 1941 IG Farben had already developed a number of "skin-friendly polymers" for the SS. Special characteristics : high tensile strength and elasticity. The cast of a suitable model proved to be more difficult.

Borghild was meant to reflect the beauty-ideal of the Nazis , i. e. white skin, fair hair and blue eyes. Although the team considered a doll with brown hair , the SS- Hygiene-Institute insisted on manufacturing a "nordish doll". Tschakert hoped to plastercast from a living model and a number of famous female athletes were invited to come to his studios, among them Wilhelmina von Bremen and Annette Walter. In the process Tschakert realized it was the wrong way. In a letter to Mrurgowsky he came to the conclusion: "Sometimes the legs are too short and look deformed, or the lady has a hollow back and arms like a wrestler. The overall appearance is always dreadful and I fear there is no other way than to combine."

While Mrurgowsky still favoured a "whole imprint" of NS- diva Kristina Söderbaum, the Borghild-designer decided to build the doll’s mold in a "modular way". In Tschakerts view the doll should be nothing more than a" female bestform", a "perfect automaton of lust", that would combine "the best of all possible bodies". The team agreed on a cheeky and naughty face , a look-a-like of Käthe von Nagy, but the actress politely declined to borrow her face to Tschakert’s doll. After Mrurgowsky’ s exit , Dr. Hannussen rejected the idea to cast a face from a living person. He believed in an "artifial face of lust", which would be more attractive to soldiers.

Eventually, the project appear to have been put in the backburner as Nazi-Germany faced more pressing needs, and the German army had to face its enemies without the comfort of the aryan plastic sex bomb. No wonder they lost, squeezed between French prostitutes and Russian bayonets.

What remained of the project was totally destroyed when allied warplanes totally destroyed Dresden in 1945. And here we have heard the bombing raid was of dubious military value."

This excerpt was taken from the following link:
http://blogs.salon.com/0001561/2005/05/30.html