Repetitive violence is an act of a person being a psychopath. During the World War II, under Adolf Hitler’s dictatorship he became controlling, manipulating, and violent with the help of others like the Nazis’ soldiers. Hitler’s acts may have triggered the soldiers to become like him. Adolf was an intelligent person to be able to know how to control most of Europe and the National Socialist Party. His actions can confirm whether he is a psychopath and made others become psychopaths. Anne Blankman, the author of the book, Prisoner of Night and Fog, early on Blackman explains that a doctor is staying at a boardinghouse owned by Gretchen Müller’s mother and he would like to gain a better understanding of Adolf Hitler. Dr. Whitestone considers
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Although, his childhood played an important role in the development of his character. Each time period of Hitler 's life contributed to his personality traits. Within Hitler’s autobiography, Mein Kampf, he described his parents as examples of German values: “My father was a dutiful civil servant, my mother giving all her being to the household, and devoted above all us to children in eternal, loving care.” Hitler does not go in-depth about his parents in his autobiography, but historians mention that he loved his mother deeply and feared his father. There is numerous amounts evidence to prove Hitler’s feeling towards his father. Hitler told his secretary, Christi Schroeder, “I did not love my father, but I was all the more afraid of him. He had tantrums and immediately became physically violent. My poor mother would be always scared for me” (Hyland et. al. …show more content…
Dr. Fritz Redlich, a professor emeritus of psychiatry at Yale University and the University of California at Los Angeles, concluded that Hitler was manipulated by his physician, Dr. Theodor Morell. The psychiatrist gathered and made a conclusion based on Hitler’s own statements, examination of medical records, and interviews with Henriette Hoffmann, the daughter of Hitler’s photographer, and Professor Ernst Gunther Schenck, a doctor and former Nazi who was the author of a medical biography of Hitler. Dr. Redlich stated that Hitler experienced severe abdominal spasms, belching, bloating, and constipation. Hitler complained in the beginning of 1930’s to have buzzing and ringing in his ears. He also suffered hypertension, headaches, and heart troubles. The Führer was affected from Parkinson’s syndrome near the end of his life. Dr. Redlich added that Hitler, perhaps suffered from temporal or giant cell arteritis, which is an autoimmune disease linked with inflammation of the arteries. This would explain Hitler’s complaints of headaches, cardiac symptoms, and poor eyesight. “Dr. Redlich concludes, in contrast, that while Dr. Morell was ignorant and made mistakes – at one point he gave Hitler both very potent laxatives and opiates, a dangerous combination – he “was proud of his historical
Although, his childhood played an important role in the development of his character. Each time period of Hitler 's life contributed to his personality traits. Within Hitler’s autobiography, Mein Kampf, he described his parents as examples of German values: “My father was a dutiful civil servant, my mother giving all her being to the household, and devoted above all us to children in eternal, loving care.” Hitler does not go in-depth about his parents in his autobiography, but historians mention that he loved his mother deeply and feared his father. There is numerous amounts evidence to prove Hitler’s feeling towards his father. Hitler told his secretary, Christi Schroeder, “I did not love my father, but I was all the more afraid of him. He had tantrums and immediately became physically violent. My poor mother would be always scared for me” (Hyland et. al. …show more content…
Dr. Fritz Redlich, a professor emeritus of psychiatry at Yale University and the University of California at Los Angeles, concluded that Hitler was manipulated by his physician, Dr. Theodor Morell. The psychiatrist gathered and made a conclusion based on Hitler’s own statements, examination of medical records, and interviews with Henriette Hoffmann, the daughter of Hitler’s photographer, and Professor Ernst Gunther Schenck, a doctor and former Nazi who was the author of a medical biography of Hitler. Dr. Redlich stated that Hitler experienced severe abdominal spasms, belching, bloating, and constipation. Hitler complained in the beginning of 1930’s to have buzzing and ringing in his ears. He also suffered hypertension, headaches, and heart troubles. The Führer was affected from Parkinson’s syndrome near the end of his life. Dr. Redlich added that Hitler, perhaps suffered from temporal or giant cell arteritis, which is an autoimmune disease linked with inflammation of the arteries. This would explain Hitler’s complaints of headaches, cardiac symptoms, and poor eyesight. “Dr. Redlich concludes, in contrast, that while Dr. Morell was ignorant and made mistakes – at one point he gave Hitler both very potent laxatives and opiates, a dangerous combination – he “was proud of his historical