The personality of Adolf Hitler is of interest not only to historians, but also to specialists in the field of psychiatry. Even during his lifetime, the Fuhrer was called "possessed". So did he have mental abnormalities?
Difficult childhood
From reliable sources it is known that the childhood of little Adolf was by no means cloudless. His father, Alois Schicklgruber, suffered from bouts of sexual aggression, and once, right in front of the boy, he raped his wife, who denied him carnal pleasures. Adolf himself also suffered from his father more than once - for the slightest offense he severely beat him … All this could not but leave an imprint on the child's psyche.
Hysterical blindness
During the First World War, Hitler went to the front. But he was discharged, temporarily losing his sight in 1918 during a gas attack. Anyway, this is the official version.
However, a few years ago, British historian Thomas Weber tracked down a letter written by the hand of the famous German neurosurgeon Otfried Foerster. Foerster reports that in the 1920s he got acquainted with Hitler's medical records. And it said that he suffered from hysterical amblyopia, a rare disease in which the brain ceases to perceive the surrounding reality and blocks signals from the optic nerves, as a result of which a person ceases to see. This can happen on the basis of strong fear.
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A number of sources indicate that a certain Edmund Forster, who teaches neurology at the University of Greifswald, was treating the future Fuhrer's blindness. The professor decided to influence his patient with hypnosis and tried to instill in Hitler the idea that he was waiting for a "great destiny." Apparently, he wanted to raise the patient's self-esteem and thereby relieve him of fears.
Later, in 1933, when Adolf Hitler was already serving as German Chancellor, the professor tried to publish the medical history of a former patient. But no one was willing to publish it, and Forster himself soon died mysteriously.
Death after nights with the Fuhrer
It is impossible not to mention the sex life of the Fuhrer. Hundreds of women dreamed of being in his arms. But those who managed to enter into an intimate relationship with Hitler ended badly. A certain Susie Liptower hanged herself after spending only one night with the Fuhrer. There is evidence from the German film actress Renata Müller that during sex Hitler demanded that she beat and kick him. A misfortune also happened to her - she threw herself out of the hotel window … But who knows, maybe they helped both ladies to commit suicide?
It is well known that one of Hitler's lovers was his own niece, Geli Raubal. Once she told her friend that Hitler makes her do monstrous things … The girl also died under mysterious circumstances - as the official version says, she shot herself.
Apparently, Eva Braun also had a hard time, although shortly before her death she even married a dictator. They say that even before that, the young woman twice tried to commit suicide. The third attempt was successful. She took potassium cyanide, like Hitler himself and his inner circle …
Necrophilia and Parkinson's
German psychoanalyst Erich Fromm argues that the Fuhrer was also prone to necrophilia. When, for example, he was served meat broth, he kind of jokingly called it "cadaverous tea", and at the table he loved to tell "funny" stories about dead people and animals.
In the last years of his life, Hitler experienced clear manifestations of Parkinson's disease, that is, organic brain damage. So, in 1942, those around him began to notice that the Fuhrer's left hand was trembling, and in 1945 problems with facial expressions began. In the last months before his suicide, it became difficult for him to walk …
Murray's findings
Not so long ago, researchers from Cornell University released previously classified information about the psychological portrait of Hitler, which was compiled in 1943 by the order of the US Office of Strategic Services by Harvard psychiatrist Henry Murray. Having analyzed literally bit by bit the collected information about the leader of Nazi Germany, Murray came to the conclusion that he was simultaneously suffering from neurosis, paranoia, hysteria and schizophrenia. In addition, the psychiatrist discovered passive masochism and suppressed homosexuality in Hitler. But during his reign, the Fuehrer even issued a law on the universal pursuit of gay people!
Murray was also a prophet. In his medical report, he wrote that the Fuhrer was prone to suicide. Be that as it may, but Hitler really committed suicide, albeit out of forced necessity.