I just recently read the book 'Justice at Nuremberg' by Robert E. Conot. In the very last chapter of the book, Conot gives the reader a brief look at Hitler and what may have caused him to act in the way he did.
Conot says that Hitler may have contracted syphilis about the time of World War I. The overt symptoms of the disease may have disappeared by the time the physician examined him for prior to his military service. The disease then became latent until 1937 where he experienced an attack of general paresis, a syphilis-engendered mental disease which usually appears about twenty years after the original infection.
I think readers will find this excerpt from the book quite interesting:
"Megalomania, paranoia, and a blunting of the moral senses are classically associated with the affliction. According to the Textbook of Abnormal Psychology, the paretic is extremely domineering, irritable, full of grandiose delusions, and likely to feel that he is an object of persecution: 'A loss of judgement is one of the first abnormalities to appear in general paresis and one which continues throughout the course of the illness. The paretics will not notice contradictions or unclearnesses in their own thinking or in the conversations of others... They complacently bring forth some absurd plan, disposing of obvious objections in an irrational fashion.... Mentally they seem to be in a sort of dream world in which their own ideas, wishes, fears, and everyday occurrences are mixed up with no distinction between fact and fancy....[The paretic] will be changeable, easily angered, sulky, emotionally excited at small events, will lose control of his temper or will have fits of crying and wailing with self-pity.... He will be careless in the face of danger, lack foresight with respect to approaching difficulty, and be quickly reassured after severe misfortune... Aburbt alteration of emotions is common.
'As the disease progresses thje motor symptoms become more and more pronounced. The disturbance of speech becomes quite obvious.... Movements are slow, clumsy, and awkward.... His gait is unsteady and shuffling... His features become flabby and expressionless while his voice is monotonous or tremulous...' Parkinson's disease is sometimes a concomitant." Justice at Nuremberg by Robet E. Conot. Carrol & Graf Publishers, Inc. New York. Copyright 1983
By the way, for anyone who is interested in World War II Justice at Nuremberg is a must read. Among other things it dispels all of the disgusting lies propagated by the Holocaust rerevisionists who claim the Holocaust never happened or grossly under report the actual number of murders committed against the Jews, Russians, Germans who opposed Hitler and basically Europeans in general.
Conot says that Hitler may have contracted syphilis about the time of World War I. The overt symptoms of the disease may have disappeared by the time the physician examined him for prior to his military service. The disease then became latent until 1937 where he experienced an attack of general paresis, a syphilis-engendered mental disease which usually appears about twenty years after the original infection.
I think readers will find this excerpt from the book quite interesting:
"Megalomania, paranoia, and a blunting of the moral senses are classically associated with the affliction. According to the Textbook of Abnormal Psychology, the paretic is extremely domineering, irritable, full of grandiose delusions, and likely to feel that he is an object of persecution: 'A loss of judgement is one of the first abnormalities to appear in general paresis and one which continues throughout the course of the illness. The paretics will not notice contradictions or unclearnesses in their own thinking or in the conversations of others... They complacently bring forth some absurd plan, disposing of obvious objections in an irrational fashion.... Mentally they seem to be in a sort of dream world in which their own ideas, wishes, fears, and everyday occurrences are mixed up with no distinction between fact and fancy....[The paretic] will be changeable, easily angered, sulky, emotionally excited at small events, will lose control of his temper or will have fits of crying and wailing with self-pity.... He will be careless in the face of danger, lack foresight with respect to approaching difficulty, and be quickly reassured after severe misfortune... Aburbt alteration of emotions is common.
'As the disease progresses thje motor symptoms become more and more pronounced. The disturbance of speech becomes quite obvious.... Movements are slow, clumsy, and awkward.... His gait is unsteady and shuffling... His features become flabby and expressionless while his voice is monotonous or tremulous...' Parkinson's disease is sometimes a concomitant." Justice at Nuremberg by Robet E. Conot. Carrol & Graf Publishers, Inc. New York. Copyright 1983
By the way, for anyone who is interested in World War II Justice at Nuremberg is a must read. Among other things it dispels all of the disgusting lies propagated by the Holocaust rerevisionists who claim the Holocaust never happened or grossly under report the actual number of murders committed against the Jews, Russians, Germans who opposed Hitler and basically Europeans in general.
