When 21-year-old Robert Doepgen searches old family archives for a school project, he finds something completely unexpected: details about Adolf Hitler’s voice problems.
For more than ten years, Karl Otto von Eiken, Germany’s most famous ENT specialist at the time, treated Hitler’s vocal cords. When Hitler had problems with one of the most important instruments of power in 1935, the Nazi dictator’s voice feared the worst – a serious illness.
They appear in old letters recently published, as the Swiss newspaper wrote NZZ on Sundayquoted Reuters.
Old letters were once sent from von Eiken to his cousin, and were found by Robert Dubgen, the cousin’s grandson, in connection with a school project.
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Hitler was famous for making fiery speeches and fierce appeals to his followers. The messages show how important the voice was to the German dictator.
Hitler had said after his first consultation with von Eiken in May 1935, “If something serious happens, I must find out.”
When Hitler had to operate on a centimeter-long polyp on the vocal cord, the messages revealed that Hitler chose to postpone the operation until after an important speech, because he was advised to rest his voice after the operation.
I am a doctor, not a killer
In the letters, von Eiken spoke in detail about his meetings with Hitler and the operations that were carried out. However, he never questioned the treatment of a man who caused excruciating pain to millions of people during the Holocaust and during World War II.
After the war, he was interrogated by the Americans and Russians, where he is said to have refused Anti-Semitic A term referring to anti-Jewish attitudes and actions because they are Jews.
When Rossi asked the doctor why Hitler had not been killed, since he had the opportunity to do so, he is said to have answered the following:
“I am a doctor, not a killer.”
Hitler committed suicide in a bunker in 1945. Von Eiken died in 1960.
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