Letters from Hitler's doctor showing how he treated his voice
A Swiss descendant of one of Adolf Hitler's doctors has revealed details of letters and correspondence showing how this doctor treated the dictator's voice problems, the Swiss newspaper "Neue Zürcher Zeitung am Sonntag" reported on Sunday.
The newspaper added that the German otolaryngologist Karl Otto von Aiken treated Hitler several times for ten years, starting in 1935.
These letters were from the doctor to a relative and were discovered by Robert Dobgin, a great-grandson of the doctor, when he was researching the family archives for a project for the school.
Von Aiken died in 1960.
British historian Richard J. Evans, a specialist in German history, confirmed the authenticity of the unpublished letters, according to the newspaper.
She added that the letters showed Hitler's fear of incurable diseases.
According to the letters, Hitler told the doctor after their first consultation in May 1935, "If there is anything wrong with my health, I must know it."
The newspaper pointed out that the speeches also revealed Hitler's attachment to his voice, which he used in fiery speeches to mobilize support for his regime.
The letters mention that an operation to remove a polyp was postponed until after he gave a speech because Doctor von Aiken advised Hitler that he needed to rest his voice after the procedure.
The doctor never questioned Hitler, whose actions killed millions of people in World War II, according to the newspaper.
The newspaper said that Russian investigators asked him after the war why he had not killed Hitler, and the doctor replied, "I was his doctor, not his killer."
Hitler committed suicide in an underground bunker in Berlin in 1945, shortly before the end of the war.
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