Who never saw a documentary about Nazism and thought Hitler was suffering from mental disorders?In fact, in 1942, the British Intelligence Service analyzed a speech Hitler had given that same year, in which there were obvious symptoms of hysteria, epilepsy and even paranoia. .
But long before he came to power, the young Adolf Hitler (to be more precise, when he was just a child) already had symptoms of mental imbalance and in this situation, his GP, Eduard Bloch, consulted the emblematic Viennese physician Sigmund. Freud.
- According to the studies of authors Laurence Marks and John Forrester.
- Dedicated to the study of Freud’s life and work.
- In 1985 the creator of psychoanalysis suggested that little Adolf Hitler be admitted to a child mental health institution.
- Unfortunately.
- However.
- Such a recommendation has not been implemented.
Adolf Hitler suffered six years of very intense nightmares, in which he found himself falling into a deep abyss or was persecuted, captured and tortured to plead with death, episodes (and many others, all of a psychological nature) that convinced Dr. Bloch that the child needed the help of an expert, so he turned to Sigmund Freud. As the father of psychoanalysis, he had a successful practice, where he frequented both the upper and middle classes of the time.
Dr Bloch consulted Freud several times on Adolf Hitler, and in any case the diagnosis was very clear: hospitalization and treatment, with which his mother, Klara, totally agreed; however, Adolf was not admitted (let alone treated), because Alois Hitler, his father, did not allow it. Alois was a very uncompromising man who wanted his young son to pursue his career, a customs officer.
Hitler’s father subjected him to daily abuse and humiliation, so the child tried to flee his home several times during his childhood and, according to investigators, to prevent abuse, Alois has always prevented the hospitalization and subsequent treatment of his son.
Later, when he was 18 years old, when he was twice rejected at the Vienna Academy of Arts (between 1907 and 1908), Hitler suffered terrible and numerous nervous breakdowns, aggravating his psychological discomfort.
In 1938, when Nazism was at its peak and Germany annexed Austria, with Anschluss, Austrian Jews began to be repressed by the Gestapo. But there was a doctor of Jewish origin who wrote directly to Hitler asking for protection, and it was Fuhrer himself who ordered Martin Bohrmann to protect him. The individual who was granted protection was Dr. Eduard Bloch, who was not tortured at any time because he had a safe conduct that allowed him to travel with his wife to the United States.
Faced with such a story, it is inevitable to wonder what would have happened if Hitler’s father had agreed to intern his son, what would have happened if the child had received adequate psychological treatment?It is almost impossible not to think that the history of the world would have been completely different and that the Holocaust would never have happened. However, these are just guesswork. We’ll never really know what would have happened.