The secrets of Hitler’s harem: He’s been portrayed as a cold woman hater, but a new book says the dictator was bewitched by a string of lovers – and even used a sex stimulant made from bull’s testicles

Adolf Hitler never had any doubt about where a woman’s place was – in the home, looking after the family and providing support to their menfolk on the political and military battlefronts.

His Third Reich was one of the most male-supremacist regimes in history, based on a concept of hyper-masculinity expressed through ‘toughness’ and ‘hardness’.

‘Men make history!’ he proclaimed.

‘The more masculine a man is, the more effective he will be.’