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Hitler's undistinguished early life
and what became of it.
We heard and read so much about
Hitler's unbelievable fast rise to power, the Third Reich and the Second World
War. Yet nobody was very interested to look into his earlier life and what made
him the monster he became and was.
Claus Hant, a German author, was
researching Hitler's earlier life for 15 years and he thinks he found the
solution. According to Hant it was one day that started the change of history.
He wrote and produced a book about it and it was printed by Quartet Books.
According to Hunt, Hitler was born in
Austria into a poor family. His father was a drunkard and beaten him badly. In
1908, he left and went to Vienna to learn and make his way as an artist. He was
described as a run-of-the-mill, hard-up, eccentric and labelled as a bore. It
was said that he had no exceptional traits or talent. Hitler than joined the
Bavarian regiment of the German Army in 1914 and fought on the front,
throughout.
HITLER IS ON THE RIGHT
On 14 October, 1918 Lance Corporal
Hitler and his comrades were victims of a gas attack at Warwick. Claus Hunt
believes this was the crucial turning point. They were all taken to the
Bavarian Field Hospital No 53 at Qudenaarde near Brussels. All the other men
were treated at the hospital. The doctors realized that Hitler was a 'war
neurotic'. Soldiers who were diagnosed of that were unable to cope mentally
with the experiences. These soldiers were banned from being treated with the
other men.
This diagnose resulted into Hitler
being transferred to a small hospital which was 800 miles away in Pasewalk. It
was a small rural place on the German border with Poland.
Hunt states that he believes that
this incident is one of the major turning points and the most significant event
which most probably was responsible to finally turn him into the monster he
was. Hunt further believes that the exposure to poisonous gas made Hitler
really turn into the psychopath he was. At the admission to the hospital a
psychiatrist Dr Edmund Foster diagnosed him as a 'psychopath with hysterical
symptoms'.
Hitler, apparently, stayed in the
hospital for a month. In those days the war neurotics were treated with
hypnosis and he could have received that treatment. It is not known for sure.
However, Hunt does not believe that this would have been the cause for such a
drastic change in Hitler's personality. Another treatment they used in those
days was an electric shock and again it is not known if Hitler received this as
well.
However, no reason justifies Hitler's
psychological metamorphosis whether it was caused by a treatment of hypnosis,
electric shock, severe shock on the front line, the poison gas (mustard gas),
the constant death experiences or all of it together.
Apparently, Hitler’s racism,
anti-Semitism, opposition to democracy, exaggerated love for Germany, violent
temper, vindictiveness, delusion of genius and a certain of divine Providence
was already there.
After the treatment of Pasewalk,
Hitler seemed to be the same ordinary person as before. The only main
difference was that before he had an assumption but now he was completely and
absolutely certain. At first he believed that a divine Providence protected
him, now he was utterly convinced. He believed to be a genius and his political
convictions had become the 'absolute truth'.
A summary establishes that before the
war his friends maintain that he was not anti-Semitic. They were bored by his
long-winded monologues because he was no orator. After a year and leaving the
hospital Hitler could hold people of 2000 completely in his power with his
talk.
Hitler also described his time in the
hospital as an experience in spiritual terms. The doctors would see it as a
psychotic episode. From there on he believed that he was visited by a spirit
and told that he was Germany's saviour. This believe stayed with him until he
committed suicide, 20 years later. He also identified himself with Jesus
Christ. He said at a Christmas celebration that Jesus could not have finished
his work but he would finish it. The more successful he became the more he was
convinced. At a rally in 1936 he proclaimed, "I have taught you faith, now
put your faith in me."
People started to believe in Hitler
more and more which was also encouraged by the propaganda of the Nazis. It was
stated that Hitler has no weaknesses.
In public, Hitler, did not wear
glasses. He did not smoke, drink alcohol or eat meat. He showed himself to the
public to be above all human cravings. Even the Fuehrer's girlfriend was not
known till after his death.
Hitler made sure that the people saw
his unshakable self-belief that he was 'the helper, the rescuer, the saviour in
the hour of their greatest need'. In his eyes, he was not just another
politician, he was sent from God. He used this messianic dimension in his
rallies. In Nuremberg, the rallies became more a self-glorification than a
political assembly. The more people cheered, the more Hitler believed in
himself.
Hant writes that his stay in the
hospital and the reason why he was there became more and more a very close kept
secret. He became desperate and was prepared to kill just to keep the truth. If
the truth were known it would have stopped his entire glorification.
In the Twenties General Kurt von
Schleicher, who was an opponent, discovered the truth and tried many time to
get hold of the medical records but failed.
In 1932 General von Schleicher
involved a close friend, Ferdinand von Bredow, who was a secret service officer
to confiscate the files. After a few months, when they managed to get hold of
the files, Hitler became Reich-Chancellor and in June 1934 General von
Schleicher and Colonel von Bredow were shot by the SS.
The files disappeared but there was
still the psychiatrist Dr Foster who knew what had happened. The secret police
investigated Dr Foster and he admitted that Hitler was in the hospital
Pasewalk. Dr Foster was suspended on 1 September 1933 from the clinic. On 11
September the Gestapo interrogated Dr Foster. His wife found him dead in the
bathroom. It appears that he shot himself and his wife told the police that her
husband did not owe the gun with which he killed himself.
Hant believes firmly that the
irrational belief of Hitler and the seduction of the German people started in
the trenches and developed more during the stay in the psychiatric hospital.
This raises the question if these events wouldn't happened would the course of
history been prevented and millions of people would not have
died needlessly?
I FEEL SICK WRITING THIS BUT I FORCED
MYSELF BECAUSE I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHAT A TERRIBLE CHARACTER HE WAS -- TO
OPEN THEIR EYES AND STOP WORSHIPPING HIM AND THE NAZIS.
HE ALSO TOOK COCAINE. THIS ALSO MUST
HAVE INCREASED HIS LUNACY. BUT HE WAS SO CUNNING TO SHOW ALWAYS A PERFECT
FRONT. THAT IS PART OF THEIR CHARACTERS.
THE MAIN REASON
WAS, TO PREVENT PEOPLE TO JOIN THE NAZIS PARTY AND UPRISING IF THEY SEE WHAT A
-- NOT SO GLORIOUS -- LEADER HE WAS.
L I N KS
A book review of 'Hunting Evil' by
Guy Walters gives us information how the Allies did not actively pursue the
highest-ranking members of the Nazi Party when they fled the Third Reich.
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