Hitler's Secret Illness Exposed, End of the Reich

[appalachiablue]

Promo for more, Smithsonian Channel. (3 mins).

- NIH, Adolph Hitler and His Parkinsonism, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4683874/
ABSTRACT: Research works have suggested almost incontrovertibly, that Adolf Hitler suffered from Parkinsonism. However, the precise nature of his illness had always been controversial and post-encephalitic and idiopathic varieties were the ones which were most commonly thought as the possible etiology. He displayed features like oculogyric crisis, palilalia, and autonomic symptoms which strongly implicate post-encephalitic etiology in the genesis of his illness.

Others on the contrary, observed premorbid personality traits like non-flinching mental rigidity, extreme inflexibility, and awesome pedantry; which are often observed in idiopathic Parkinson's disease. Moreover, nonmotor symptoms like disturbed sleep, proneness to temper tantrums, phases of depression, suspiciousness, and lack of trust on colleagues have also been described by various authors. Additionally, he was prescribed methamphetamine by his personal doctor and that might have led to the development of some of the later traits in his personality.

Introduction: A good number of research works have indicated that Hitler suffered from various ailments like irritable bowel syndrome, skin lesions, cardiac dysrhythmia, coronary arterial disease, syphilis, borderline personality disorder, amphetamine addiction, and importantly, Parkinson's disease. However, medical historians were mostly interested in Hitler's suspected Parkinsonism...

- The Guardian, "High Hitler: how Nazi drug abuse steered the course of history." German writer Norman Ohler’s astonishing account of methamphetamine addiction in the Third Reich changes what we know about the second world war, 9/16. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/25/blitzed-norman-ohler-adolf-hitler-nazi-drug-abuse-interview

[smirkymonkey]

1. Very interesting.

Thanks for posting.

[appalachiablue]

3. Toxic and highly dangerous combination of personality disorder

negative traits, plus mass amounts of mood and mind altering pharmaceuticals- 'human wreck' and monster of the ages.

[smirkymonkey]

4. Sounds familiar, with a few tweaks.

How do such damaged people manage to gain so much power and influence so many people?

[appalachiablue]

2. Charles Lindbergh, American Aviator 'Hero' & Nazi Sympathizer

Charles Lindbergh, the Rise of 1940s Nazi Sympathizers and 'America First,' promo.

The America First Committee (AFC) was the foremost United States non-interventionist pressure group against the American entry into World War II. Started on September 4, 1940, it put out mixed messaging with antisemitic and pro-fascist rhetoric from leading members, and it was dissolved on December 10, 1941, three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor had brought the war to the United States. Membership peaked at 800,000 paying members in 450 chapters. It was one of the largest anti-war organizations in the history of the United States... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Committee

[certainot]

5. these authoritarians have sex on the wrong brain and humans have been selecting

for those symptoms for hundreds of thousands of years.

some of those symptoms had survival value in periods of conflict and maybe scarcity and human populations selected for them. some of that hereditary susceptibility accumulates and may be associated with inherited diseases

[TomVilmer]

6. Drug abuse has been standard in many armies...

To call amphetamine a "Nazi drug" is strange, since fx:
One report concluded that approximately 60% of US Air Force Tactical Air Command aircrew occasionally used dextroamphetamine during operations in the Persian Gulf War.
Dextroamphetamine was also used by the US Air Force during Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. Its use was widely publicized because several pilots were using it when they were involved in a friendly fire incident, and there was some concern that the pilots' judgment may have been impaired by the drug.