But in a letter to Mrurgowsky, Tschakert came to this 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 prevailing diva Kristina Söderbaum, the Borghild-designer decided to build the doll’s mold in a "modular way", taking bits and pieces from different women. In Tschakert's view, the doll should be nothing less than a "female best-form", 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 actress Käthe von Nagy, but she politely declined to lend her face to Tschakert’s doll.
After Mrurgowsky’s exit, Dr. Hannussen took over, and rejected the idea to cast a face from a living person. He believed in an "artificial face of lust" which would be more attractive to soldiers. "The doll has only one purpose and she should never become a substitute for the honourable mother at home. ... When the soldier makes love to Borghild, it has nothing to do with love. Therefore the face of our anthropomorphic sex machine should be exactly like the common wanton’s face".
Borghild’s presentation in Berlin was a great success. While Himmler examined her artificial orifices, Tschakert was very nervou but Himmler was so enthusiastic he ordered 50 Borghilds on the spot.
Eventually, the project appear to have been put on the back-burner 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 destroyed when Allied war planes destroyed Dresden in 1945. Which proves that the Dresden bombing was a true atrocity: now we don't have a copy of the world's first sex doll.
Article comments
— go to most recent comments1 - Nancy
Is there a non-porn website that talks about this thing or has a picture of it anywhere? This is bizarre enough to take a look.
2 - Phillip Winn
Based on the story, I'm guessing that there aren't really any pictures, with them being destroyed and all.
3 - Joyce Arthur
The nazis did not invent teh first sex doll, tehr eis no way that there was not one invenetd earlier by soem inventor, I mean come on if condoms were invented in Rome, and writing in Sumeria, teh idea they would not have been thought up in soem way earlier, is crazy, i am against teh nazis, but teh idea they invented soemthing which gives pleasure is wronmg, there isno way they invented it, i mean remember teh movie psycho, the peopel taht was based, on had used real people, so the idea nobody had thought of using a scarecrow tehy made themself, or a roaf, is rubbishm, they did not incebvngt teh first sex doll
4 - jarboy
joyce, you are the most dyslexic typist i have ever read! sure you're not a barbie doll?
5 - Phillip Winn
Poor typing doesn't even begin to cover it. Because the Nazis area bad, they can therefore logically not invent a sex doll? Um, yeah.
Make up your mind; was the idea so obvious it had already been invented, or so ingenious that the Nazis couldn't possibly have invented it?
6 - JR
Joyce Arthur:...I mean come on if condoms were invented in Rome, and writing in Sumeria, teh idea they would not have been thought up in soem way earlier, is crazy...
There's a valid point in there. On the other hand, keep in mind that before the rise of industrial cities, most people probably had lots of sheep nearby.
7 - jarboy
are sheep sexier than blow-up dolls?
8 - adam
Sheep are alive. Blow-up dolls are dead.
Take your pick.
9 - hardboy
baaah...
10 - jarboy
adam wrote Sheep are alive. Blow-up dolls are dead. Take your pick.
you mean, blow-up dolls once had life? so fucking them is necrophilia? oooh, i'm kinkier than i though -- er, would be, if i had ever fuct a blow-up doll.
hardboy, are you my long-lost brother?
11 - Eric Olsen
yes, more specifically blow-up dolls are inanimate objects imbued by some with anthropomorpic attributes. Check out Roxy Music's "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" for an ode to the "disposable dolly"
Where did this research come from Adam? Just curious.
12 - jarboy
you mean the research about sheep being alive and blow-up dolls dead?
actually, i consider blow-up dolls alive until they pop.
13 - Asmodeu$
Why is it so strange that the Nazis invented the blow-up doll? I mean seriously, think about it. Germans are the most sexually crazy people on the planet (not to mention open-minded!).
Also, haven't any of you thought about the way the world has evolved? Synthetic rubber or latex were not found/made until the 1800s-1900s, so what are you going to make a fake pussy out of? Wood? Metal? Dead flesh?(YOU might be a necrophile, but I am not.) Then you have to consider the conservativeness of society around that time -- in the first series of Bewitched (yes I know, that was a TV show made not so long ago), whats-her-face (the witch, dumbass) was not even allowed to show her belly button as this was considered "offensive" at the time!
/end rant
-Hailing from Melbourne
::Asmodeu$::
14 - jarboy
actually, it wasn't bewitched, but i dream of jeannie who couldn't show her naval. and what proof do you have that "germans are the most sexually crazy people on the planet." you obviously have never lived in puerto rico!
15 - jarboy
Vagina makeovers all the rage... interesting article
16 - Scott
Sex dolls like to be anthropomorphized!
17 - jarboy
Scott: Sex dolls like to be anthropomorphized!
i may be a sick fuck, scott, but i would neer do somethign like that, even to a doll!
18 - adam
Eric, Salon of all places, and then follow up to German link
Nancy, they got a pic there, apparently one of two photos were found in some garbage can
Joyce, what can I tell you? The Aryans on this site have already answered you
19 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
Adam, this was excellent. an i followed the link through to the german site which does indeed have a picture of the doll, but also a very disturbing picture that i dare say i'll take an hour or two to get rid of
20 - Dr Hacky
Renee Descartes, who was French, of course, beat the Germans by 200 years- he was reputed to have had a doll made of leather and metal.
21 - paulie
Joyce wrote: i am against teh nazis, but teh idea they invented soemthing which gives pleasure is wronmg, there isno way they invented it... The Nazis couldn't invent anything that gives pleasure? Have you never rode in a VW convertible? The VW Beetle was concieved of by Porsche and Hitler. Kinda ironic that they then became the vehicle of choice for the hippy culture in America
22 - Peyton Hash
the nazis only lasting legacy? have you ever heard of volkswagen? now THATS a lasting nazi legacy.
23 - Jenna
I agree that the VW is a lasting legacy of the Nazis. I knew they invented the sex doll but I did not ever know why they invented it till now.I read America started brothels in Hawii in order for American soldiers to have some RNR because the same reason as the Nazis the soldiers were having sex with prostitutes who had diseases.
24 - Jessica
Wow thats how the first one got invented pretty wild fact.
25 - JCM
Not to forget the Autobahn.