Hitler's hysterical blindness: fact or fiction?
This article deals with a little known episode that occurred near the end of the Great War in a military reserve hospital located in the small town of Pasewalk, part of the distant region of Pomerania in northern Poland. The story is centered around the transient visual loss of a 29-year-old Austrian messenger of the 16th Bavarian Infantry Regiment. His name: Adolf Hitler.
Department of Neurology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. pmaranhaoflho@gmail.com
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