Details of letters released by the Swiss descendant of one of Adolf Hitler’s doctors reveal the Nazi dictator’s fear of suffering from a serious voice disease, the NZZ am Sonntag reported on Sunday. “If there’s something wrong, I definitely need to know.”Hitler will have said after the first consultation in May 1935.
Otolaryngologist Carl Otto von Eicken was the one who treated the Führer’s vocal cords for ten years—he was as close to this leader as few others and, as the German newspaper describes it, “if he had cut just a few more millimeters with his scalpel and fatally wounded his patient (…) he could have prevented immeasurable suffering and saved millions of people from death.” — a reference to the Holocaust.
Hitler I knew well the power of the voice, which he used effusively in his speeches to win the support of the regime. He had to undergo surgery to remove a polyp, the letters show, but he only agreed to the operation after speaking to the nation, as Otto von Eicken advised him to rest his voice after the medical procedure. The dictator went so far as to say:The doctor can only approach me after the speech.“.
The voice, throat and ear specialist, in the now public documents, never questioned that he was treating a man whose orders caused one of the greatest genocides in history.
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At the end of World War II, Otto von Eicken denied being an anti-Semite and, when asked by a Russian secret service agent why he did not kill Hitler, even though he had the opportunity, he replied: “I was a doctor, not a murderer.” .
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The doctor’s letters to cousin Marie Steneberg were discovered by Robert Doepgen, great-great-grandson of Otto von Eicken, who found them in the family archives, following an academic project. Otto von Eicken died in 1960.
Robert Doepgen described NZZ am Sonntag: “[Otto von Eicken] He was politically naive, but as a doctor he took pride in caring for Hitler.“. Doepgen wondered what would have happened if his ancestor, instead of removing the polyp, had cut the Nazi dictator’s esophagus. The conclusion? “I wouldn’t be here either. They [autoridades nazis] I would have killed my whole family“.
British historian Richard Evans, an expert on German history, has confirmed the authenticity of these letters, according to Reuters.
Source: Observadora
