While idly surfing the net for Beatles info, trying to find evidence that they had recorded "Turn, Turn, Turn" I came across this interesting little snippet in an interview with Pete Best, the former Beatles drummer. I quote

"according to Best, the name Beatle in German closely resembles the name for "the human appendage"

Now, "the human appendage" to which Best refers is, not to put too fine a point on it, the male sexual organ.

My question, is, what is the German word which sounds like "Beatle" and which means "penis"? I have a smattering of schoolboy German, but I can recollect no such word. "Schwanz" doesn't sound much like "Beatle", does it?

Elucidation welcomed, either from Wolfgang or any other Teutonically erudite Mudcatter.

Murray