Citation

Köpf G. Nervenheilkd. 2005; 24(9): 783-790.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Georg Thieme Verlag)

DOI

10.1055/s-0038-1630017

PMID

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Abstract

In 1918, in the military hospital of Pasewalk, lance-corporal Adolf Hitler is cured of his war neurosis (hysterical cecity/blindness) by psychiatrist Prof. Edmund Forster using hypnotherapy. Soon after the seizure of power by Hitler Forster gets into contact with the scene of exiled German writers in Paris and passes them his notes on his former patient surreptitiously. Writer Ernst Weiß, himself a medical doctor, uses Forster's records in his novel Der Augenzeuge (The Eyewitness) which however is not published before 1963. Weiß commits suicide when the German troops march into Paris in 1940. Forster shoots himself in 1933 after a campaign of slander and denunciation. Other people who somehow got into closer contact with Hitler's medical record cord are assassinated by the Gestapo. © 2005 Schattauer GmbH.

Language: de

Keywords

human; suicide; blindness; posttraumatic stress disorder; review; psychiatrist; medical record; neurosis; medical literature; history of medicine; public hospital; Belles letters; History of psychiatry; Hitler; hysteric blindness; Hysterical cecity (blindness); War neurosis (combat fatigue)