[Hitler's neurologic disease--differential diagnosis of Parkinson syndrome].
[Hitler's neurologic disease--differential diagnosis of Parkinson syndrome].
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Original abstract
This paper deals with the differential diagnosis of Hitler's Parkinsonian syndrome based upon our recently published results of an analysis of Hitler's motor functions in German news-reels, upon archived materials with notes and comments of Hitler's doctors, various memories, and our own interrogations of eye-witnesses of Hitler's nearest entourage. According to these sources, Hitler's Parkinsonian syndrome developing since mid-1941 cannot be attributed to any of the symptomatic forms of Parkinsonism. In light of family history, age of manifestation and clinical features the assumption of idiopathic Parkinson's disease seems somewhat more plausible than that of postencephalitic Parkinsonism; the genetic variant is less probable. Hitler's neurological pathography is further analysed in respect to an abuse with "Antigas pills" and to some statements in the literature presuming an amphetamine-dependence, a syphilitic manifestation, an epileptic seizure in 1932, and a tremor already present in 1923.