Medicine: Again, Hitler

Since last year, no fewer than 13 prominent psychiatrists have publicly diagnosed Adolf Hitler (at long distance) as a paranoiac, have prophesied the Führer's mental collapse. Although he can no longer claim to speak with a patriotic objectivity, Dr. William Brown, director of Oxford's famed Institute of Experimental Psychology, last week upped the number of such diagnoses to 14: "Sir Nevile Henderson's final report on the actions of Herr Hitler confirms my conclusion . . . that he has every symptom of the paranoiac who is suffering from persecutory mania and whose brainstorms and megalomania will increase until his madness is...

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