If there is no more strength to fight for your own health, the right to live in this world of struggle ends ... (A. Hitler)
The attending physician of the young Hitler, Eduard Bloch, recalled that in his forty years of activity he had not seen young people who were killed after the death of their mother like Adolf Hitler ...
Even before that, in 1905, Hitler fell ill with severe pneumonia, doctors even talked about tuberculosis. He was successfully treated by the doctor Karl Keiss (he drinks with milk!).
With the outbreak of World War I, Hitler joins the 6th reserve battalion of the 2nd Bavarian regiment.
In 1916, Hitler was wounded in his left thigh by shrapnel, and on the night of October 14-15, 1918, during an Allied gas attack near La Montaigne, his eyes and respiratory tract were damaged by military chlorine.
Within a month he was treated in the rear infirmary, and he recovered, but, having learned about the surrender of Germany, Hitler ... again "blinded"!
In the hospital in Pasewalk (Pomerania), he is consulted by the famous psychiatrist Foerster, then by another eminent specialist, the head physician of the psychiatric clinic of the University of Munich, Professor O. Bumke.
The “zigzags” of the fates of these doctors are noteworthy. Bumke will come to Moscow four years later to consult the paraplegic V.I. Lenin, and E. Foerster, according to legend, was liquidated by the Gestapo in 1933 in order to hide the details of Hitler's psychiatric status! More cautious historians say that seven months after Hitler came to power, E. Foerster committed suicide ...
By the way, there was nothing seditious in the diagnosis of psychiatrists: it was about psychogenic (false) blindness.
It was after Hitler's death that O. Bumke wrote about him: "Schizo and hysterical, brutally cruel, half-educated, intemperate and deceitful, devoid of kindness, a sense of responsibility and, in general, any morality."
In 1925, after being released from Lansberg Prison, Hitler developed a tremor in his left arm and leg. Because of the trembling, he could move his left forearm very limitedly!
Where did it come from? In the winter of 1916/17 in Vienna and other cities in Austria, a new disease appeared, which over the next three years spread throughout the world. The pandemic of this disease - lethargic encephalitis - struck 5 million people and only ten years later (by the winter of 1927) subsided. There is reason to believe that Hitler suffered such an encephalitis in 1920.
The closer to the top of power, the more concern for their health: in 1931, Hitler becomes a consistent vegetarian and quits smoking, and in the spring of 1934 he undergoes a full course of examination at the Berlin Charité clinic. It is noteworthy that the local doctors did not reveal any “organic pathology”!
However, already in 1935, Hitler convinced himself that he was seriously ill: stomach pain, flatulence, hoarseness, pain in the heart, poor sleep ...
In the same year, Professor K. von Eiken removes "polyps of the vocal cords" from Hitler, the histological examination of which shows their complete good quality.
The very next year, a very remarkable person turned out to be near Hitler - Morell, the doctor T. Morell (Theodor Gilbert Morell, 1886-1948). He studied medicine in Paris, Grenoble, Heidelberg, Giessen and Munich. He was considered a specialist in skin and venereal diseases and practiced in a Berlin clinic on the Kurfürsterdam. He was, as they say, a "fashionable" doctor among high-ranking NSDAP functionaries, actors, directors and producers. Hitler met Morell at the moment when he began to be disturbed by pain in the epigastrium and the right half of the lower back. Morell immediately found an increase in the left lobe of the liver in Hitler. Hitler became "patient A" in the fashion doctor's file: height 175 cm, body weight 70 kg, blood type I, pulse, pressure and temperature are normal.
Why did Hitler trust a doctor who was considered a charlatan by university doctors? It's simple: Morell saved him from eczema. The Fuhrer was troubled by itching and exudation in the region of his left leg, and he could not wear boots. Treatment by reputable doctors, Professor of the Charite Clinic, Director of the II Therapeutic Clinic of the University of Berlin, G. von Bergmann and Professor E.R. Grawitz (leader of the German Red Cross) did not give any result. True, they were not dermatologists! Hitler was angry: “Grawitz and Bergman made me starve. They only allowed me tea and crackers... I was so exhausted that I could hardly sit down at my desk. Then Morell came and cured me." Indeed, Morell discovered dysbacteriosis in Hitler, which he explained both eczema and dyspepsia. He prescribed Mutaflor (an analogue of colibacterin) and pills with an extract of belladonna and strychnine to the incredulous patient. The eczema passed, and Hitler again began to flaunt in boots (he cherished the image of a brutal warrior very much, and suede boots did not really fit with this!).
Meanwhile, Hitler cannot avoid the diseases of the "forty-five-year-olds": he is prescribed "senile" glasses, he suffers from periodontal disease, and his blood pressure begins to "jump". T. Morell discovers that the Fuhrer has a systolic murmur on the aorta. Hitler complains of swelling of the legs and pain in the chest.
Hypochondriacal thoughts bother him so much that in 1937 Hitler comes out with ... a political testament, and on May 2, 1938 he writes a personal one! Since 1937, he has avoided any physical activity, stops skiing (like many Austrians, he was a good skier) and decides to have an X-ray examination, which he had previously categorically avoided. Morell stuffs him with all sorts of drugs.
Their list is just “knock down”: methamphetamine, belladonna, atropine, caffeine, cocaine (eye drops), oxycodone, morphine, strychnine, potassium bromide. Against this background, testosterone, vitamins, chamomile, E. coli preparations look like baby talk! For two years he has been giving Hitler Glyconorm (a drug like Festal), for four years he has been given Strofantin intravenously and all the time the mysterious “Morell multivitamins with calcium”. For seven years, Hitler has been receiving preparations of strychnine and belladonna!
After the outbreak of World War II, Hitler was examined again (01/09/40): blood test is normal, pulse at rest is 72 beats per minute, blood pressure is 140/100 mm Hg. Art. In the urine, the content of urobilinogen is increased, calcium crystals are found, leukocytes are normal. Reactions of Wasserman, Meinike and Kann (for syphilis) are negative.
Two weeks later, Hitler has a hypertensive crisis - blood pressure rises to 170/100 mm Hg. Art.
A year later, Morell again prescribes him caffeine, Pervitin, Cardiazol and Coramine. After the start of the war with the USSR, during a heated discussion, Hitler had a severe attack of retrosternal pain. He looks weak, pale, depressed and visibly tired. He is worried about epigastric pain, nausea, chills and bouts of weakness.
There is no doubt that Hitler suffered from arterial hypertension - in Morell's diary there are pressure figures: 152/110, 170, 180 mm Hg. Art.
In February 1944, Hitler developed pain in his right eye and his eyesight fell. He is examined by the best ophthalmologist in Germany at that time - the director of the Berlin University Clinic, Professor Walter Lelein. Vitreous hemorrhage and cataract - that's his verdict. Drops of goniotropin in the eyes and irradiation with a "sollux" lamp - these are the appointments of a venerable ophthalmologist. Hitler is prescribed bifocal glasses: flat glass on the left, +1.5 on the right, for myopia (lower part) + 3.0 D on the left, + 4.0 on the right. He uses a large magnifying glass to read maps.
After the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944, more than 100 fragments were removed from Hitler's body, and his eardrums burst.
He suffered obstructive jaundice, sinusitis, ethmoiditis, another polypectomy on the vocal cords, and on October 1, 1944, he suddenly lost consciousness ...
... The proposed version that Hitler had progressive paralysis does not stand up to criticism: he was repeatedly examined for the presence of a syphilitic infection (after all, the Germans suggested the reactions of Wasserman, Nonna, Meinike, Kahn and knew a lot about it).
The presence of amimia, “Ja-tremor” (“yes-trembling”), a fixed, unblinking gaze, a shuffling gait, a lowered sonority of the voice, a “greasy” face allowed experts to make a cautious assumption that Hitler had Parkinson's syndrome, and not classic Parkinsonism.
But be that as it may, there are no grounds for talking about Hitler's "limited sanity".
Height - 165 cm, but this is not so ....
The act of examining Hitler's remains, drawn up by Soviet pathologists on May 8-11, 1945, contains a number of obvious errors, which are most likely caused by political reasons - the desire to humiliate Hitler in every possible way even after his death. These errors are as follows: Hitler's height in the act is 165 cm, while in reality the Fuhrer had a height of 175 cm; the act stated that Hitler's left testicle was missing, while all intravital medical examinations stated that Hitler had normal genitals, without any abnormalities; fragments of a glass ampoule were found in the mouth of the corpse, which made it possible to say that Hitler had poisoned himself; but, as Western critics reasonably pointed out, in conditions where the corpse was charred, glass fragments could not survive and would inevitably melt. More importantly, the analysis of samples of internal organs and blood taken from the corpses of Hitler and Eva Braun did not reveal any traces of cyanide compounds there. Meanwhile, such compounds were identified in the analysis of samples of the corpses of Goebbels, his wife, children, General Krebs and the shepherd Blondi.
Linge described the situation in Hitler's office immediately after the suicide: “I immediately smelled gunpowder, as happens after a shot ... Together with Bormann, we entered the room ... Hitler was sitting on the sofa to the left. He was dead. Next to him is the dead Eva Braun. On Hitler's right temple there was a gaping gunshot wound the size of a coin, on his cheek - traces of blood that had rolled down in two streams. There was a pool of blood the size of a plate on the carpet near the sofa. Blood spattered on the wall and on the couch. Hitler's right hand rested on his knee, palm up. Left - hung along the body. At Hitler's right leg lay a 7.65 mm Walther revolver, and at his left leg a 6.35 mm revolver of the same system.
Hitler was dressed in his gray military tunic, which had a gold party badge, an Iron Cross 1st Class, and a World War I Wound Badge that he had worn in recent days. He wore a white shirt with a black tie, black slacks, black socks, and black leather low shoes. Eva Braun sat on the couch with her legs crossed. Her light-colored high-heeled shoes stood on the floor. Her lips were tightly compressed. She poisoned herself with cyanide...
With the help of Bormann... I laid Hitler's body, still warm, on the floor and wrapped it in a blanket... Hitler's body, myself and the SS men from the personal guard Lindloff and Reiser... carried it through the reception room to the emergency exit to the park. Goebbels, Burgdorf, Krebs, Axman, Nauman, Günsche, and Rattenhuber, standing in the waiting room, raised their hands in greeting. Then Bormann came out of Hitler's office, followed by Kempka with the body of Eva Braun in her arms. Goebbels, Axmann, Naumann, Rattenhuber, Krebs and Burgdorf followed Hitler's body to the emergency exit."
Adolf Hitler is a significant figure in the history of world politics. Tyrant, murderer, dictator - and this is just a small list of associations with his name. The man who unleashed the Second World War and destroyed millions of people was very quickly coming to power. Hitler's career, whose growth was rapid, and his personality still remain unsolved mysteries for historians, despite the abundance of documentation and eyewitness accounts.
The origin of the German leader
Official sources claim that A. Hitler was of Austrian origin, but, according to some unconfirmed reports, the Fuhrer himself, who so zealously defended the purity of Aryan blood and hated Jews, himself belonged to the Jewish nationality.
Adolf was born on April 20, 1889 and was the fourth child. According to information from historical documents, his parents Alois Hitler and Clara Pelzl registered marriage only with the permission of the church, that is, they were actually blood relatives. In those days, in the small Austrian town of Braunau, such connections were not considered rare and were not shameful.
Hitler growing up
Growing older, the future dictator did not feel a particular craving for knowledge and science, he was attracted by culture, architecture and art. Not wanting to get a higher education, Adolf refused to study, citing a lung disease. Later, he discovered his talent for drawing. The security of the family allowed Hitler not to work, and he led an idle life, visiting theaters and exhibitions. Twice he tried to enter an art school, but to no avail - twice Adolf was refused.
During the First World War, the future leader of Nazi Germany was called upon to serve as a volunteer - this was the beginning of Hitler's military career, the growth of which became rapid thanks not only to the Fuhrer's personal qualities, but also to the knowledge and skills gained while participating in hostilities. After the end of the war, Adolf returned to his homeland with the rank of corporal, awarded the Iron Crosses of the first and second degrees.
Hitler's personality traits
The stories of the teachers and classmates of the young leader give him a very contradictory description: he was both a ringleader and a calm, peace-loving student, not striving to learn the basics of the exact sciences. Information declassified many years ago says that Hitler was a kind, sensitive, creative, striving for power over other people's minds. However, from some sources it became known that Adolf owes his despotism to his father, who negatively influences him - his dominant and cruel behavior towards his son resulted in a manifestation of anger, the Fuhrer's rejection of other nations. Hitler's career, growth among like-minded people were determined by his impeccable oratorical skills.
Career
Returning from the war in 1919, Hitler joins the German Workers' Party and after 2 years becomes its leader, eclipsing and overthrowing the leaders who preceded him. The party is renamed the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party). Thanks to the acquired power and knowledge gained during the war, the Fuhrer gradually introduces his nationalist views into German politics, and also reforms the foundations of the country. At this stage, Hitler's career, the growth and success of his person begin to take on significant proportions.
From November 8 to 9, 1923, Adolf and adherents of his ideas organize the "Beer putsch" in Munich. However, the coup attempt failed, and Hitler was arrested. While in prison, the leader of Germany wrote the book Mein Kampf, which means "My Struggle". Later, the publication will gain considerable popularity.
The year 1933 marks the formation of A. Hitler as Reich Chancellor (his reforms, thanks to which the country's post-war economy began to develop, served such a high appointment). A significant position allowed the Fuhrer to ban other non-nationalist parties. From the moment Adolf was approved as Reich Chancellor, a cruel persecution of the Jews began, his influence over the whole of Germany increased: concentration camps were opened, a pedigree was asked from each soldier. Each conquered territory has its own headquarters of Hitler - a command post.
Years of government
The Fuhrer firmly established himself in German politics from 1945 to 1945. The initial years of Hitler's power fell on the most unstable time in the country's politics - at that time Germany needed a strong leader, and Adolf's promises at all kinds of meetings and meetings had extraordinary power, people followed him, they were drawn to him. His oratory on the topic quickly helped to gain followers among ordinary workers and entrepreneurs of the country - the post-war period was rich in restrictions for these segments of the population.
After Hitler received the recognition of his compatriots, he needed to conquer new lands. In 1938, he sent troops to Austria and Czechoslovakia, then according to his plan there were other countries of the world. Helping his associates, including Mussolini, he spread fascism around the world. According to historical data, the Fuhrer's main mistake was the start of the war with the USSR. Despite the signing of a non-aggression pact with the country in 1939, in 1941 Nazi troops began to bomb the country of the Soviets. The result of the war with the USSR was the unconditional surrender of the Nazis and the suicide of the head of Germany, Adolf Hitler, as well as his wife, Eva Braun. On April 30, 1945, at half past three, in the afternoon, Hitler and Eva committed suicide, having bequeathed to burn their bodies. However, the SS soldiers did not manage to complete their plans to the end, and the bodies were discovered by the troops of the Soviet SMERSH. There is an opinion that the half-burnt remains of a man and a woman do not at all belong to the deceased, but, most likely, these are the bodies of the twins of the famous couple.
It is unlikely that any psychiatrist will ever be able to accurately diagnose all of Hitler's mental illnesses and combine them into a sufficiently capacious and comprehensive formulation. There were so many deviations in the psyche of the German dictator that they simply do not fit into the standard diagnosis for ordinary patients.
The future dictator was mercilessly beaten by his father
The roots of mental illness are usually sought in childhood patients. Therefore, of course, psychiatrists did not disregard Hitler's childhood either. His sister Paula told them how his father had severely punished little Adolf, leading to the opinion that Hitler's aggressiveness was the result of an oedipal hatred of his father.
The dictator's father, Alois Schicklgruber (he changed his surname to Hitler at the age of 40), was known as an insatiable voluptuary. His many connections on the side were sometimes not enough to fully satisfy his lust. Once he savagely raped his wife, who refused him intimacy, in front of the young Adolf. Perhaps this incident left its mark on the entire sexual life of the future dictator.
Mother Clara pathologically loved her boy (before him she had lost three sons), and he responded to her in the same way. Of the six children of Alois and Clara, only two survived - Adolf and the feeble-minded Paula. Hitler called himself a sissy all his life. Pathological love for his mother and hatred for his father became the cause of many negative features of his psyche.
Blinded with fear
If you believe Hitler, then in the First World War he was a brave soldier and honestly earned his reward - the Iron Cross. Only a gas attack by the British in 1918, due to which he temporarily lost his sight, interrupted his military career. However, recently, the British historian Thomas Weber, on the basis of archival documents, letters and diaries of Hitler's fellow soldiers, managed to dispel this legend about the heroism of the gallant corporal in the trenches of the First World War.
The historian discovered the correspondence of the famous German neurosurgeon Otfried Förster with American colleagues. In one of the letters, he mentioned that in the 1920s, Hitler's medical record accidentally fell into his hands and he read the diagnosis that the doctors had given him.
It turned out that Hitler temporarily lost his sight not because of the gas attack, but because of hysterical amblyopia. This rare disease occurs with mental stress, for example, due to a strong fear of military action. The brain, as it were, refuses to perceive terrible pictures of reality and ceases to receive signals from the optic nerves, while vision itself remains in order.
A brave soldier simply could not have such a disease, but Hitler was not one. He served as a signalman at the headquarters and was far from the front line, fellow soldiers even called him "rear pig". However, Hitler knew how to please his superiors, for which, according to Weber, he received the Iron Cross.
Hitler was treated for blindness with the help of hypnosis sessions. Therapeutic hypnosis at the hospital was handled by professor of neurology Edmund Forster from the University of Greifswald. It was to him that the blind corporal Hitler came. For about two months, Forster tried to find the key to the subconscious of this man who lost faith in his future. Finally, the professor found out that his patient had an extremely painful pride, and understood how, thanks to this, he could influence the patient's psyche during a hypnosis session.
In a completely dark room, Forster put Hitler into a hypnotic trance and told him: “You are actually blind, but once every 1,000 years a great person is born on Earth, who is destined for a great destiny. Perhaps it is you who is destined to lead Germany forward. If so, then God will restore your sight right now.”
After these words, Forster struck a match and lit a candle, Hitler saw the flame ... Adolf was simply shocked, because he had long said goodbye to the hope of someday seeing the light. It never occurred to the doctor that Hitler would take his words about his great destiny too seriously.
According to the psychiatrist and historian David Lewis, who wrote the book The Man Who Created Hitler, it was thanks to Forster that the idea of \u200b\u200bhis great destiny was born in Hitler's head. Subsequently, Forster himself realized this. When Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the professor risked his life to have his case file sent to Paris, hoping it would be published.
Unfortunately, the publishers did not dare to publicize this case history: Germany was located too close, and Hitler at that time already had long arms. This is evidenced at least by the fact that this demarche of Forster did not remain a secret for the leader of the Nazis. Two weeks after the attempt to publish Hitler's medical history, the professor died ...
As Weber found out, everyone who knew about Hitler's true illness was destroyed, and his medical cards disappeared without a trace.
Nightmare lover
With his speeches, Hitler brought women literally to ecstasy. He had many admirers, but as soon as some of them reached their cherished goal - intimacy with the Fuhrer, their life turned into a real hell.
Susie Liptauer hanged herself after spending only one night with him. Geli Raubal, Hitler's niece, told a friend: "Hitler is a monster ... you will never believe what he makes me do." Until now, Geli's death is shrouded in mystery. It is known that she died from a bullet. At one time, there were rumors that Hitler shot Geli during a quarrel, while the official version of the Nazis said that she committed suicide.
German movie star Renata Müller achieved intimacy with the Fuhrer, which she immediately regretted.
Hitler began to crawl at her feet and asked to give him a kick ... He shouted: “I am vile and unclean! Hit me! Bey! Renata was in shock, she begged him to get up, but he crawled around her and moaned. The actress had to kick and spank him anyway ... The movie star's kicks led the Fuhrer into extreme excitement ... Shortly after this "intimacy" Renata committed suicide by throwing herself out of the hotel window.
Eva Braun, who lasted the longest next to Hitler, tried to commit suicide twice, ultimately she had to do it for the third time, already as the wife of a dictator ... Many psychologists and sexologists doubt that Hitler was capable of normal intercourse.
Animal sense of danger
According to various estimates, from 42 to five dozen serious attempts were made on Hitler's life. Professional bodyguards and aces of special services cannot explain at all how the German dictator managed not only to save his life, but also not to get a single serious injury. In their opinion, this is no longer just luck, but a real mysticism. Usually, 2-3 well-prepared assassination attempts are enough (and most often one!), To at least, if not kill, then seriously injure a person and take him out of the game for a long time.
The most interesting thing is that Hitler often managed to save his life due to a literally bestial instinct for danger. For example, in 1939, during the assassination attempt of Elser, who organized the explosion in a Munich pub, Hitler unexpectedly left the meeting place of party veterans unexpectedly early, and this saved him from death. Subsequently, he said to one of his close associates: “I was seized by a strange feeling that I must leave immediately ...”
Once Hitler said: "I escaped death several times, but by no means by chance, an inner voice warned me, and I immediately took action." Hitler believed in this inner voice until the end of his life.
The rearmament of the German army, the occupation of the demilitarized Rhineland, the annexation of Austria, the occupation of Bohemia and Moravia, the invasion of Poland - any of these actions between 1933 and 1939 were to lead to war with France and Great Britain, a war in which Germany had no no chance of winning. However, Hitler seemed to know that the Allies would be inactive, and boldly gave orders, from which the generals of the Wehrmacht were covered with sticky sweat. It was then that the mystical faith in the prophetic gift of the Fuhrer was born among Hitler's entourage.
Did Hitler really see pictures of the future? J. Brennan, author of The Occult Reich, believes that the Fuhrer, like shamans, entered into a special ecstatic state that allowed him to see the future. In a fit of rage, Hitler often became almost insane.
In a person in this state, as biochemical analysis shows, the content of adrenaline and carbon dioxide in the blood rises sharply. This can lead to changes in the functioning of the brain and access to new levels of consciousness. “Intoxication of this kind brought Hitler to the point,” writes J. Brennan, “that he could throw himself on the floor and start chewing the edge of the carpet - such behavior was observed among Haitians who surrendered to the power of spirits while performing magical rituals. This led to the fact that the nickname Carpet Eater stuck behind him.
Germany under hypnosis
For the rest of his life, Hitler's school teacher remembered the strange look of the teenager Adolf, which made the teacher tremble. Many of the Fuhrer's entourage spoke of his outstanding hypnotic abilities. Whether they were congenital or Hitler took hypnosis lessons from someone is unknown. The ability to subjugate people greatly helped Hitler on his way to the heights of power. In the end, almost all of Germany was hypnotized by the former corporal.
Geli Raubal, Hitler's niece, told a friend: "Hitler is a monster ... you will never believe what he makes me do."
Here is what General Blomberg wrote about Hitler's hypnotic gift: “... I was constantly influenced by a certain force that emanated from him. She resolved all doubts and completely excluded the possibility of objecting to the Fuhrer, ensuring my complete loyalty ... "
Professor H. R. Trevor-Roper, a former intelligence officer, wrote, "Hitler had a hypnotist's gaze that overwhelms the mind and feelings of all who fall under his spell." J. Brennan, in The Occult Reich, describes a striking case. One Englishman, a true patriot of Britain, who did not know the German language, while listening to the speeches of the Fuhrer, involuntarily began to raise his hand in a Nazi salute and shout "Heil Hitler!" along with the electrified crowd...
"Infernal Cocktail"
So many mental deviations were mixed in Hitler that any, even an experienced psychiatrist, would have been clearly confused, trying to unravel the composition of the “hellish cocktail” that was seething in the head of this nondescript man, a madman who intended to conquer the whole world in his time. Explicit sexual deviations, the ability to exert a hypnotic effect on people, as well as an animal instinct for danger, which allows us to talk about certain clairvoyant abilities, are far from all that Hitler differed from other people.
Erich Fromm, for example, noted in him a clear tendency to necrophilia. As confirmation, he cited the following quote from Speer's memoirs: “As far as I remember, when meat broth was served on the table, he called it “corpse tea”; he commented on the appearance of boiled crayfish with a story about a dead old woman, whom close relatives threw into a stream as bait to catch these creatures; if they ate eels, he did not forget to mention that these fish love dead cats and are best caught on this particular bait. In addition, Fromm draws attention to a strange mine on the Fuhrer's face, which is visible in many photographs, it seems that the Fuhrer constantly smells a certain disgusting smell ...
Hitler had an amazing memory, he had the ability to preserve in it a photographically accurate reflection of reality. It is believed that only 4% of children have such a memory at an early age, but as they grow older, they lose it. In Hitler's memory, both minor architectural elements of buildings and large pieces of text were perfectly imprinted. The dictator amazed the highest generals of the Reich, citing from memory numerous figures concerning the armament of both the German army and its opponents.
The Fuhrer was an excellent imitator. As Eugen Hanfstaengl recalls: “He could imitate the hissing of geese and the quacking of ducks, the lowing of cows, the neighing of horses, the bleating of goats ...”
The dictator's acting skills were also at their best, he even knew how to influence his autonomic nervous system with the help of self-hypnosis, for example, he made himself cry without any problems, which is given to few professional actors. Tears from the eyes of the Fuhrer had a magical effect on the audience, enhancing the effect of his speeches. Knowing about this gift of Hitler, Goering at the very beginning of the Nazi movement in critical situations literally demanded: "Hitler must come here and cry a little!"
Admiral Doenitz believed that some kind of "radiation" emanated from Hitler. It had such a strong influence on the admiral that after each visit of the Fuhrer, Doenitz needed several days to recover and return to the real world. Goebbels also noted the clear impact of his patron, he said that after talking with Hitler, he "feels like a recharged battery."
In many ways, Hitler's actions were determined by a very deep factor - an inferiority complex, described by Alfred Adler. The dictator constantly compared himself to the great conquerors of the past and tried to surpass them. According to Alan Bullock, "a huge role in Hitler's entire policy was played by the strongest feeling of envy inherent in him, he wanted to crush his opponents."
There is no doubt that Hitler developed Parkinson's disease, which is caused by an organic brain lesion. True, the dictator managed to pass away before this illness had a serious impact on his health and psyche. In 1942, Hitler's left hand began to tremble, and in 1945 facial expression disorder began. In the last months of his life, Hitler, according to the recollections of others, resembled a ruin and moved with great difficulty. It is known that Parkinson's disease disrupts logical thinking and the patient tends to more emotional perception of reality. From 1941, Hitler's unique memory began to fail more and more often.
So, Hitler was such a strange and abnormal person that the existence of such a "mental anomaly" is even difficult to imagine. Therefore, the dictator practically did not fit into the tight diagnostic schemes of various psychological and psychiatric schools, and it was not possible to give him a comprehensive diagnosis, although there were still such attempts.
Among the documents in one of the law libraries, a secret psychological portrait of Hitler, compiled back in 1943 by psychiatrist Henry Murray from Harvard University, was discovered several years ago. It was ordered to Murray by the leadership of the US Office of Strategic Services (the predecessor of the CIA). The American military and intelligence officers wanted to know more about the character of Hitler in order to be able to predict his actions in a given military-political situation.
Staff at Cornell University have published this analysis of Hitler's psyche, containing 250 pages of text and, in fact, is one of the first attempts to study the personality of the dictator. "Despite the fact that psychology has come a long way, the document provides an opportunity to see some of the features of Hitler's personality," said Thomas Mills, a researcher at the university's library.
This curious document has the following title: "Analysis of the personality of Adolf Hitler with forecasts regarding his future behavior and recommendations on how to deal with him now and after the surrender of Germany."
It is clear that Murray did not have the opportunity to personally examine such a dangerous "patient", so he was forced to conduct psychoanalytic studies of the dictator in absentia. All the information that could be obtained was used - the genealogy of the Fuhrer, information about his school years and military service, the dictator's writings, his public speeches, as well as testimonies of people who communicated with Hitler.
What kind of portrait did an experienced psychiatrist manage to draw? Hitler, according to Murray, was an evil, vindictive man who did not tolerate any criticism and despised other people. He lacked a sense of humour, but he had plenty of stubbornness and self-confidence.
In the Fuhrer, the psychiatrist believed, the female component was quite pronounced, he never went in for sports, physical labor, had weak muscles. From a sexual point of view, he describes him as a passive masochist, suggesting the presence of repressed homosexuality.
Murray believed that Hitler's crimes were partly due to revenge for the bullying he suffered as a child, as well as a hidden contempt for his weaknesses. The psychiatrist believed that if Germany lost the war, Hitler could commit suicide. However, if the dictator is killed, then he can turn into a martyr.
Murray's diagnosis includes a whole bunch of diseases. In his opinion, Hitler suffered from neurosis, paranoia, hysteria and schizophrenia. Although modern experts find a number of misinterpretations and inaccuracies in this psychological portrait of the dictator, due to the level of development of psychiatry in those years, the discovered document is undoubtedly unique.
Sergey STEPANOV
"Mysteries and mysteries" May 2013
Once I was in a wax museum, where all the figures of famous personalities were made in natural growth.
I remember my surprise when some figures did not completely correspond to my idea of \u200b\u200bthem, for example, the great commander Suvorov (in my understanding, the commander is a tall, strong man), the figure was a short, thin man one and a half heads shorter than me.
Of course, from the school history course, I knew that Suvorov was not an athlete, but when you see it with your own eyes, it surprises me, at least for sure
The tables are taken from the Internet, so I am not responsible for errors in growth)))
Tamerlane's height is 145 cm.
Genghis Khan's height is 145 cm.
Heinrich Yagoda's height is 146 cm.
The height of Alexander the Great is 150 cm.
Charlemagne's height is 150 cm.
Nestor Makhno's height is 151 cm.
The height of Queen Victoria is 152 cm.
Mikhail Kalinin's height is 155 cm.
Nikolai Bukharin's height is 155 cm.
The height of Louis XIV is 156 cm.
The growth of Catherine II is 157 cm.
Kliment Voroshilov's height is 157 cm.
Horatio Nelson's height is 160 cm.
Dmitry Medvedev's height is 162 cm.
The growth of Joseph Stalin is 163 cm.
The height of Vladimir Lenin is 164 cm.
The height of Joseph Goebbels is 165 cm.
The height of Nikita Khrushchev is 166 cm.
The height of Paul I is 166 cm.
The height of Alexander Pushkin is 166 cm.
Winston Churchill's height is 166 cm.
The growth of Nicholas II is 168 cm.
Bruce Lee's height is 168 cm.
The height of Napoleon I is 169 cm.
The height of Benito Mussolini is 169 cm.
The growth of Semyon Budyonny is 169 cm.
The height of Peter III is 170 cm.
Vladimir Putin's height is 170 cm.
The height of Silvio Berlusconi is 173 cm.
The height of Gerhard Schroeder is 174 cm.
The growth of Yaroslav the Wise is 175 cm.
Adolf Hitler's height is 175 cm.
Mikhail Gorbachev's height is 175 cm.
Albert Einstein's height is 176 cm.
The growth of Leonid Brezhnev is 176 cm.
The growth of Ivan the Terrible is 178 cm.
The height of Alexander I is 178 cm.
The height of Konstantin Chernenko is 178 cm.
The height of Alexander III is 179 cm.
The height of Elizabeth Petrovna is 180 cm.
Height of George Bush Jr. 182 cm
Yuri Andropov's height is 182 cm.
The height of Alexander II is 185 cm.
Ronald Reagan's height is 185 cm.
Boris Yeltsin's height is 187 cm.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's height is 187 cm.
Jacques Chirac's height is 189 cm.
Bill Clinton's height is 189 cm.
The height of Joachim Murat is 190 cm.
Abraham Lincoln's height is 193 cm.
The growth of Grigory Rasputin is 193 cm.
The height of Adolphe Mortier is 195 cm.
The height of Charles de Gaulle is 196 cm.
The growth of Peter the Great is 201 cm.
Vitali Klitschko's height is 201 cm.
The growth of Nicholas I is 205 cm.
The height of Ramses II is 210 cm.
Angelina Jolie is only 1.69 cm tall. Tom Cruise has grown to 1.72. Mel Gibson mouth 1.77. Sylvester Stallone - 1.75. Schwarzenegger is really rather big - 1.83. A very small Madonna. Her height is 1.64. Jennifer Lopez did not much outgrow her, whose height is 1.65. Nicole Scherzinger - 1.66. The growth of Ani Lorak is 1.62, and Victoria Boni is 1.69. Victoria Beckham is 1.68 cm tall.
The height of the boxer Nikolai Valuev is 213 cm. Here he really is the real Gulliver among all the celebrities from this material.
The growth of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev is only 162 cm. Few people know that Dmitry Anatolyevich is one of the lowest presidents of all countries in the world. He is 8 cm shorter than his political predecessor. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is also not tall - his height is 170 cm.
The growth of the famous TV presenter, the sex symbol of the domestic show business Anfisa Chekhova is 166 cm.
The shortest celebrities in this ranking are singers Maxim and Ani Lorak. Ani Lorak's height is 162 centimeters, although, you see, she looks much taller from the screens. Maxim's height is only 160 centimeters.
The growth of actress and model Mila Jovovich is 178 centimeters. With such parameters, it was not so difficult to break into the modeling business. Recently, Mila gave birth to a child and after giving birth she recovered by almost 30 kg. But in just two weeks of intensive training and specially designed diets, Mila managed to regain her former figure, which she happily showed to the public.
Modern divas of cinema and television also "do not shine" with giant growth. The height of TV presenter Lera Kudryavtseva is 167 cm, the growth of socialite and TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak is 170 cm. Masha Kozhevnikova, aka Allochka from the popular youth series Univer, did not break away from them much, Masha's height is 174cm.
From the TV screen, it is sometimes difficult to understand what this or that celebrity looks like in full size.
They all look tall and slender, but I hasten to disappoint you: this is just a good job by the videographer.
Let's look at the ranking of the lowest famous personalities. Among men, the height is 175 cm Timati and Valery Leontiev, golden voice of Russia Nikolay Baskov small and remote - 173 cm. Not far from them was a list of stars with a height of 172 cm - Andrey Arshavin, Boris Moiseev and Denis Torbinsky, football star. Our esteemed prime minister is even smaller Vladimir Putin- 170 cm, also includes Vladimir Vysotsky, Pavel Derevianko. Handsome Timur Rodriguez has a height of 168 cm, although he does not hide it, he fits next to Timur Sasha Tsekal about - 167 cm. Andrey Gubin height 166 cm for Sergey Rost - 165 cm, On the next line - Dmitry Medvedev and MishaGalustyan- 163 cm, the smallest domestic star - Nikolai Rastorguev- 158 cm.
The female rating is as follows: the smallest singer - Julia Volkova with a height of 154 cm. next comes the actress Svetlana Svetikova and her height is 157 cm. Yulia Savicheva nature endowed with a height of 159 cm. 160 cm each Maksim and Zhanna Friske, at the dear prima donna Alla Pugacheva height 162 cm, but Alina Kabaeva and Natasha Koroleva- 163 cm. Glucose height 165, 1 cm taller than her Sati Casanova, and after them move Anna Semenovich- 169 cm and Mariya Kozhevnikova 168 cm. 170 cm each Kristina Orbakaite, Masha Malinovskaya, Ksenia Sobchak and Tatiana Arno. At Anastasia Volochkova and Anastasia Stotskaya by 171 cm. Vera Brezhneva and Irina Allegrova slightly higher - 172 cm. Evelina Bledans - 174 cm, Miss World Oksana Fedorova- 176 cm. The tallest girls in show business are Olya Buzova and Zhenya Malakhova- 178 cm.
