I've fairly recently read a study that says Hitler most likely had Sifilous (sp?). This STD in its later stages causes the victims to go increasingly mad. It also leaves some sort of evidence on their skeletons so they can later be identified as having it.

Rasputin, the mad monk, is known to have had the disease as well. Not suprising at all considering his promiscuous lifestyle. Henry VIII is also known to have had sifilous. That is why he couldn't father children, his wives would contract the disease from him so after their first child the subsequent children were all malformed. Whether or not the rumours of Hitler's rather... perverted sexual lifestyle are true may or may not be more evidence of him having the disease.

Kind of odd that some very influential people in history, and some of the most insane, are all believed to have sifilous.

Anyone else heard about this, know if it has been proven to be true that Hitler had it or not?

It's not as simple as that. First of all, the inside machinations of the Nazi Party and the state run by it make investigations into the matter practically impossible. The only thing we know for sure is that Hitler's doctor pumped him full of drugs as the war went on.

Syphilis is a disease spread only via sexual contact, it was very common before things such as condoms were invented. So it's not unusual for a lustful king or anybody to have it.

Since we will never find Hitler's skeleton, although statistically speaking a few hundred molecules of it could be drifting in every litre of air we breathe, this will never be proved.

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Whether Hitler´s condition went poor because of the stress or another illness is hard to diagnose. As well he probably took all kinds of drugs to sedate him by his doctor´s orders. The tremble of his hand could be Parkinson disease but as well aftermath for the 20th July bombing I think. But probably it was not syphilis though it cannot be excluded. There was no cure so what you got from the WW1 you´d still have it later on in your life and it could make the nervous system fail.By the way that´s how Lenin died.

Syphilis:
Himmler, and the British Intelligence Service, raised the question that Hitler had neuro-syphilis, the equivalent, medically, and socially, of saying, today, a politician had Acquired Immune Deficiency, AIDS. There is, however, no credible evidence Hitler had syphilis. Although neuro-syphilis was a pleomorphic with many and varied symptoms, it rarely, if ever, caused Parkinson symptoms. Hi tler had a negative Wasserman test, and although a negative Wasserman reaction does not exclude neuro-syphilis, it reduces its likelihood. Hitler, on several occasions, had eye examinations by experienced ophthalmologists none of whom found evidence of the eye-abnormalities associated with neuro-syphilis.

http://www.parkinson.org/texthtms/thitlerspd2.htm

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Hitler's half-Jewish personal physician, Dr. Theodor Morell, said to-day that during the last days before the fall of Berlin Hitler feared that he would be drugged and carried away forcibly from the capital. He does not believe that Hitler committed suicide because Hitler was not that type.
Dr. Morell, who is 59, examined Hitler daily for nine years. He collapsed in a coma at Hitler's feet in the Chancellery shelter when Hitler yelled at him:

"You think I am crazy. You will try to give me morphine. Get out of here; you are sacked. Get that medical uniform off. Go home and act as if you had never had anything to do with me." Dr. Morell flew from Berlin on April 22. He denied that Hitler chewed carpets, but said that he flew into rages; particularly as the war went on. Still more terrifying were Hitler's angry silences. "Hitler would go as white as a sheet and tightly clench his jaws, while his eyes would dilate," said the doctor. "Everyone in his entourage would get panicky because these fits were always followed by an order to dismiss or to execute somebody." But Hitler once complained: "My orders are never fulfilled."

Dr. Morell attended him after the attempt on his life. he found Hitler sitting with singed hair, torn uniform, and blood on his face, banging his knees with both hands. "Just think of it, doctor," he exclaimed, "nothing can happen to me." His eardrums were ruptured and gave trouble later. Hitler seemed to have a split personality, one half iron will, determination, forcefulness and cruelty, the other uncertainty, fits of depression, and shyness, particularly with women

Dr. Morell's relations with Hitler had become strained after Morell attended the funeral of his brother, who was not a Nazi party member. After that, when he reminded Hitler of a promise to have an X-ray examination, Hitler shouted: "Do you think I am a silly young fool?" Hitler was obsessed with the fear of cancer and had severe digestive troubles, said Morell.

http://www.guardiancentury.co.uk/194...127827,00.html

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From 1942, the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler received daily injections of methamphetamine from his personal physician, Dr Theodor Morell. Hitler's ailments have been attributed to everything from tertiary syphilis to Parkinson's disease. But many of The Führer's clinical signs and symptoms may have been caused by his exotic drug regimen.

http://amphetamines.com/adolf-hitler.html

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The Reich Commissioner was genuinely worried about the effect of the frequent cocktails of up to 28 different drugs being pumped into his Führer. He had a point. Morell was to treat Hitler for nine years with some bizarre concoctions including bull’s testicles, materials derived from animal intestines and high-dosage amphetamines....

http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/139_nazidocs.shtml

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