Hitler's Last
IllnessAs David Irving first
established with his publication in 1983 of The Secret
Diaries of Hitler's Doctor (William Morrow, New York,
1983) Hitler had contracted Parkinonism during the
closing months of World War II, and was being treated in
his final month, April 1945, by Dr Theodor Morell with
two exotic, belladonna-based drugs indicated only for
this medical condition.
Monday, May 17, 1999
Why
mention Hitler? THE May 14
Herald article Reno becomes a role model
for living with Parkinon's was great
except for one thing. Why was it necessary to
mention that a mad man such as Adolf
Hitler probably suffered with Parkinson's
disease? The
article was interesting and informative, but
I can't understand for the life of me why
Hitler needed to be mentioned. Clara
Mahoney
Miami
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Comment:
1.
If one of the Twentieth Century's most profiled
personalities is discovered to have been suffering
from one of mankind's most debilitating and puzzling
brain defects -- the opposite of schizophrenia -- it
surely merits more than a footnote in the history
books.
2.
To describe Hitler as a "mad man" is not
clinically accurate; altogether twelve of his doctors
and medical staff were closely questioned by the
Allies after the war, and eleven concluded that there
were none of the usual symptoms of mental incapacity
(other than those of Parkinonism); the twelfth, the
surgeon Professor Hanskarl von Hasselbach, had
been summarily dismissed by Hitler in October 1944 for
breaching medical confidences, and did not examine him
as an expert on psychiatry.
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