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Question: Was Hitler mentally ill or had a personality disorder!?
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The whole question of insanity/disease is an attempt to sell the Third Reich as the result of a diseased mind!.

To, in some desperate way, ameliorate the whole history as being the product of one man's illness offers humankind some kind of sop, a protection to the global psyche – “Humans cannot be that bad, somebody must be ill”!. Leaving aside the fact that it is not possible to accurately diagnose someone who is dead and whose body has been burned, any diagnosis is based on the records of Hitler's personal doctor, nearly all the writers/experts who claim this or that illness admit that their diagnoses are not wholly provable!. To push all the excesses of Nazi Germany onto one personality ignores the realities!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Objection, a person with Parkinson's is not mentally ill!.
Now, he suffered from an inflated idea of his own importance and was a megalomaniac!. Thankfully for the rest of Europe he thought he was 'better' than Napoleon, which was why he opened the 'Second front' against the Soviet Union!.
He wanted to rule the world, but then we have a present day 'World' leader who also has this ambition!.
Insane!? Possibly, but I doubt his attorneys would have been able to prove this had he appeared in Nuremberg!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Mentally defective!. He was suffering from late stage syphilis, and was on an enormous amount of drugs to keep it in check!.

Not everyone know it but syphilis has adverse psychological effects, and the drugs he was taking also shifted his state of mind!.

Toward the end, he was issuing orders to non-existent army groups, dismissing his top Generals, and ranting insanely!.

He was definitely at the end of his days, even if he had been able to survive the end of his domination!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

He was extremely mentally ill, He had tremors in his hands,had to take a cocktail of amphetamines injected by nazi doctors to help his ailments,He hid is disease,because they showed weakness in the aryans race!.Not only did 40's medicine make him dependent to drugs during the war it caused some of highest German generals to attempt a plot until they got killed
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they say at the beggining of the war he was very sane

but he became insane by the end!. accounts show of a mind lost by destruction!.

his worst part probably was after the assasination attempt by his own officers in 44!. His men were hoping to kill Hitler and end the war before the allies destroyed Germany!.

they failed and he lived to see the end of Germany as a nation and died with it!.
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Above all, Hitler was a patriot!. He firmly believed in his country and his country's ability to produce an empire to rival that of the UK!. Germany had a bigger army and navy than Britain so there could have been no excuse to lose the first world war, it was unthinkable!.
But the unthinkable happened and there must have been a reason for it!. Hitler searched his soul for the answers and spent hours upon hours in libraries researching the cause for Germany losing the war!. The answer he came up with was the Jews!.
Hitler firmly believed that the Jews were undermining the German Government and used fifth columnists to bring about Germany's destruction!.
His hatred of the Jews knew no bounds and he would stop at nothing to rid Germany of its Jews!. He began a deportation programme, but this failed!.
It was Adolf Eichmann who came up with the idea for the annihilation of the Jews!. Nowhere is it recorded that Hitler signed any documents ordering the Final Solution!. In fact, it was regarded among many of his closet friends that he didn't agree entirely with the programme and that he favoured deportation!.
I believe Hitler was sane!. He actions were calculated and driven by hate!. I also believe that his overall hatred of the Jews clouded his vision and his actions!. In NO WAY at all do I admire Hitler, nor do I condone in any way what he did!. The murder of 6 million people because of their religion was an abomination against humanity itself!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

That's a loaded question!. Several years ago I read the book "Explaining Hitler!." It was fascinating, and it touched on numerous theories!. Here's a link to it:
http://www!.amazon!.com/Explaining-Hitler-!.!.!.

My personal views are that he both had a personality disorder (at the very least evidenced by his crippling paranoia) AND was evil!. Whatever evil means!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

He had both issues!. He took a huge cocktail of drugs and was described by his inner circle to suffer suicidal depressions, outbursts and delusions of victory when the war turned against him!. His treatment of the Jews and other minority populations is a reflection of his mental issues!. He had a habit of projecting all problems onto the Jews!. A survey of all of the raw material available, in conjunction with our knowledge of Hitler's actions as reported in the news, was sufficient to convince most psychologists that he was, in all probability, a neurotic psychopath!. Hitlers treatment of the women in his life has been rumored to drive them to commit suicide!.!. his niece was a good example!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Adolf Hitler was a hypochondriac (which I'm told means he thought he was really sick), and he had Syphilis and Parkinson's, and his doctor gave him narcotics and stimulants, and supposedly hallucinogens!. So he was just a lot messed up by drugs and disease!.

So don't do drugs, kids! You could end up like Hitler!Www@QuestionHome@Com

I think he was full of resentment and hatred for Jews, I'm sure I read that as a teenager he was bullied by some jewish lads!. then he just became obsessed, which probably then led to him being mentally ill!.
Hitler was addicted to amphetamines, which makes people psychotic!.

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He was a megalomaniac (delusions of grandeur)!. When he realised he was getting somewhere with his rantings, his feeling of power would have grown disproportionately!. I think he bordered on the insane!.

Some people have even accredited him with being an (evil) genius but personally I don`t think he was!. I would tag him as the personification of evil!. Certainly not clever or intelligent!.
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This is all twaddle!. Nazism did not come into existence because of Hitler's mental abberrations, it happened because periodically capitalism goes into crisis and politicians look around for scapegoats!. War is a way to take the people's mind off the stupidity of their leaders and direct their anger towards external foes or internal minorities!. How are things with the illegals and the Russians, George!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

He was mentally unstable!. On the verge of being a genius in some areas!. A great motivational speaker and leader!. But very self destructive and amoral!. No sympathy - able to take lives of many people to fulfill his own selfish ambition!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i think he was a very 'sick' disturbed individual, although i do not think there was anything medically wrong with him, but he was also very selfish and it is a shame he didnt 'survive' to be given the awful punishment he so clearly desrvedWww@QuestionHome@Com

What about Stalin, Mussolini, Metaxas, Araturk, Enver Hoxha, Mao Tse Tung, Pol Pot, Mobutu Sese Seko, Papa Doc Duvalier, Idi Amin, Mugabe, Franco, Bokassa, Obiang!.!.!.!.!.!. the list is endless!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Personality disorders are types of mental illness!. Hitler was not ill, he was evil!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I think he just have a personality problem!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

well he had parkinsons and was on a cocktail of drugs during the war so i would say he was mentally illWww@QuestionHome@Com

ILL' FROM DEMONS OF THE UNDER WORLD~~~~!Www@QuestionHome@Com

he was addicted to speedWww@QuestionHome@Com

Did he sound normal to you!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

he was a mummys boy!. his dad beat him up!. his mum was a neat freak so she was really strict when she potty trained him!. all this contributed to his scary personality, angry on the outside, weak fragile baby on the inside

thats why he committed suicide, he was a coward inside

that also maybe why he liked his cousin to wee on him (look it up!)Www@QuestionHome@Com

He had to be mentally Ill to want to kill and torture so many people!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

From what I heard he was hooked on meth!.Www@QuestionHome@Com