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Why wouldn't the horrors of estrogen on men have been known in the 1930s?

By that point, the horrid effects of hops had been known for ~500 years. Somewhat ironically in this case, it was the Germans who discovered the effects of hops, and they did so 1,100 years earlier. Wikipedia claims that a German and an American had officially discovered estrogen as of 1930.

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Yeah, saw it because I looked it up as well. Do you think they just discovered (isolated) it and figured out what it could do in one decade? Do you think British Intelligence would say, "He guys, this is the path to victory. Let's get this newly isolated chemical into Hitler's food. ... What, cyanide? Fuck no. Estrogen! Lots and lots of estrogen!!1!"

E: LOL, remember Brit special forces, only make Hitler a vegan. If the rest of the SS become vegan, history might catch on.

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Do you think they just discovered (isolated) it and figured out what it could do in one decade?

Absolutely. They also did not have to figure out what it could do per se, they could have just decided "well, this is the feminizing hormone, so let's put it into Hitler's food and it'll probably feminize him." WW2 and the Cold War are full of stories of governments attempting novel ideas like that.

Since Europeans had, by that point, a thousand+ years of experience with seeing how hops makes women and men more feminine, they'd have had a decent reason for theorizing that the female hormone would do the same.

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Since Europeans had, by that point, a thousand+ years of experience with seeing how hops makes women and men more feminine ...

Do you have any links on that? I never heard that pre-1900s would know this. Anything you got. I'll admit I am doubting you on this.