Too bad. She was kinda cute.
Posted on 01/18/2005 2:22:59 PM PST by Shermy
MUNICH - A second cousin of Adolf Hitler was one of the victims of the mass killing of the handicapped and mentally ill under the Nazi dictator's rule, new research has shown.
Aloisia V., who had spent many years in a secure psychiatric centre, was murdered in the gas chambers of the Hartheim Institute near Linz in Austria in December 1940, researchers said Monday.
She was 49 at the time, only two years younger than Hitler.
The fate of Hitler's second cousin has come to light after study of previously unknown Nazi documents by the Institute for Forensic Medicine in Munich and the Obersalzberg Institute for contemporary history at Berchtesgaden.
Aloisia V. had spent nine years at the secure Am Steinhof psychiatric hospital in Vienna until 28 November 1940 when she was transported to another institute near Ybbs and finally sent to the gas chambers at Hartheim on 6 December of that year.
It is thought at least 200,000 handicapped, mentally ill and other institutional patients were murdered by the Nazis as part of the policy of extermination decreed by Hitler himself.
Salzburg-based US historian Dr Timothy W. Ryback and private researcher Florian M. Beierl worked with Munich forensic scientist Professor Wolfgang Eisenmenger in the investigation.
Ryback said Hitler's attempts to keep details of his family history a secret were legendary.
"After 60 years we now know why. This man really had something to hide," he said.
According to patient files from the Am Steinhof psychiatric hospital, which also became a centre for mass murder, Aloisia V. suffered from schizophrenia and depression and was prone to hallucinations, mental distraction and delusions.
She spent her time in a cot and was subject to outbursts of rage but also carried out craftwork peacefully. She had once asked in a letter in 1934 to be administered poison "to free me from my terrible torture".
Eisenmenger said no conclusions on Hitler's mental health should be drawn from the new research. There has been no evidence that Hitler was, for example, schizophrenic, he said.
However in genealogical trees which show as many cases of illness as that of the Hitler family tree it was possible that "abnormal personalities" sometimes appear more frequently.
Aloisia V. came from Hitler's father's branch of the family tree, the Schicklgrubers, in which there were several cases of mental illness and one relative who committed suicide.
Other relatives of the Austrian-born dictator, including a cousin and an aunt from his mother's side, suffered from physical defects such as curvature of the spine or stunted growth.
The two institutes are preparing a detailed report of the significance of the newly discovered documents in German and Austrian archives which they say give fresh insights into Hitler's largely unknown family history.
DPA
Well, see. In contemporary Europe, Hitler would just be one of many people eager to show "compassion" by carrying out such requests. In fact, I'm surprised the Dutch haven't redefined the Holocaust as a great service to human uplift.
He should have just had her lobotomized and institutionalized for life, like certain ruling class families in America have done, then started "Spezielle Athletische Konkurrenzen" to "honor" her.
Hitler was a lame amateur. The's "extermination of inferiors" is carried on today far more efficiently and on a far more massive scale by the Nazi's heir:
Planned Parenthood, which murders more "defective" (and other) humans in a couple of weeks than Hitler and the entire SS could do in their entire lifetime.
Too bad. She was kinda cute.
Whew, thank God! And thank God for the psychiatric profession for finally straightening this out.
I'd hate to think of just how bad Hitler might have been were he schizo as well as a murderous psychopath.
They had a show on the History channel yesterday afternoon on Hitler (Gee how suprising), I forget what this one was called, but man, that dude had to be gay or something. They showed old footage of his main office or whatever is was, and there were just all these huge statues of naked men with their shlongs hanging out, fountains with naked men, it was like some sort of Michael Jackson set up but instead of little boys it was all statues of naked men all over the place, and I`m saying to myself if I were the ultimate ruler of a country, that is the LAST LAST LAST thing I would EVER want in my freggin` office.. Come on! This dude was a tad too obsessed with the sausage if you know what I mean.
Kind of like Dan Rather's daughter...
Just affirms my belief that he was truly evil incarnate. And as a Christian, it makes me worry to think- if he wasn't the Antichrist, then what will the anti-christ be like?
Yes indeed.
No, why don't you lay on the couch and explain it further while the doctor here takes a few notes.
Well one cousin of his is still alive and she`s now Senator of New York.
Are you trying to say that the whole Nazi thing has homoerotic undertones? No way!
The anti Christ is currently a Senator from New York.
The founding members of the National Socialist Workers Party (7) were homosexual. Read:Confidant of Hitler by Wagener,Otto. He provides the little talks Hitler gave about Ode Rays etc, and how men with little boys was natural and the Greek thing .
You should have saw this show yesterday, they had old footage of Hitler showing these group of people this huge office of his and you could just see on their faces they were all acting like people touring Michael Jacksons Neverland or something and acting like this bizarre scene was all perfectly normal lest they get in trouble "Oh how impressive Hitler, 23 giants schlongs. Yes yes, that does show the power of Germany" lol!
Good point.
Horror is its own author.
Hitler was a gay vegetarian who fancied gun control and socialism.
I'm only surprised they haven't given him a posthumus Nobel Peace Prize yet.
It`s true, this whole "Hitler youth" thing. I remember one scene from Triumph of the will where they showed Hitler watching all these scantily clad boys exercising and climbing ropes, jumping over stuff and getting the impression that this whole Hitler youth thing had gay overtones to it, then Hitlers whole obsession with purity, pedophiles are known for being obsessed with purity and innocence, look at Michael Jackson as a prime example. The dude was gaaay!
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