Hitler's love dolls

From the "You couldn't make it up" Department. According to a report in today's La Repubblica online, in 1941 Hitler ordered that each soldier be supplied with a blow-up sex doll in his rucksack, to be his (the soldier's) "fiancé" so as to take care of his "sexual needs", save him from VD, and preserve "the purity of the race". The plan was only dropped after the Allies bombed the Dresden factory that was to make them.

Health warning: this story was lifted by La Repubblica from the Spanish newspaper Abc, which in turn was reporting on an unnamed Norwegian newspaper. Even if it's not true, though, it really ought to be.