“The Borghild-project – a discreet matter of the III. Reich”

http://www.borghild.de/indexe.htm

The world’s first sexdoll – or ”gynoid” – was built in 1941 by a team of craftsmen from Germanys Hygiene Museum Dresden. The project was supervised by the famous preparator and technician Franz Tschakert. The ”Father of the woman of glass”, which happened to be the sensation in 1930’s II. International Hygiene-Exhibit, used his skills and experience in order to create a kind of doll the world had never seen before.
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.”

 

http://www.borghild.de/text1d.htm

I could only see the article properly on this link;

interesting story - another example of overthinking i believe

 

a more recent writeup: mental_floss Blog » The Nazi Sex Doll Initiative

 

I'd seen allied posters warning against seeking prostitutes, so apparently the major powers were worried about their soldiers getting sexually transmitted diseases whilst on duty. Does anyone know how bad the problem actually was?