There is a very interesting article here
Culture Wars: Pox Review which goes into this subject in some depth. You need to go halfway down the page to find the references to Hitler, but the whole article is certainly worth reading. I have lifted these two paragraphs, for example:
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Hitler was later embarrassed by his frankness in talking about syphilis. He would later tell Hans Frank, his lawyer, that the syphilis section of Mein Kampf was “too self-revealing.” As a result, mention of the disease disappeared from his public discourse, but not from his private concerns. In 1936 Hitler hired Theo Morell, a noted syphilologist as his personal physician, something which caused consternation, according to Albert Speer, among the high level Nazis surrounding Hitler. Hayden feels that Hitler “chose Morell, a syphilologist for the simple reason that he feared the progression of syphilis.”
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Not surprisingly, the best test case for Hayden’s theory that syphilis changed the course of history is Adolf Hitler. The best indication that Hitler had syphilis is his own writing, namely, Mein Kampf. (I have already stated my case in Monsters from the Id. Dracula is about syphilis. the first Dracula movie was made in Weimar Germany around the same time Hitler wrote Mein Kampf. Germans were worried about syphilis. Hitler capitalized on their fears by associating syphilis with the Jews. Jew, vampire and syphilis are integral parts of one threatening Gestalt at the heart of Mein Kampf.) David Irving claims that Hitler did not have syphilis based on the results of one Wasserman test. But David Irving has also admitted that he has never read Mein Kampf. If the internal evidence of an autobiographical text has any significance, then the obsessions which get expressed in Mein Kampf give a clear indication that Hitler had syphilis, that he probably contracted it from a Jewish prostitute, and that he extrapolated from that experience a theory of race hatred that would, in Hayden’s terms, change the course of history.
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The afore-mentioned Wasserman test was not always a successful indicator that syphilis was/wasn't present. There is some evidence that:
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Hitler's tremors and irregular heartbeat during the last years of his life could have been symptoms of tertiary syphilis. Along with another doctor Morell diagnosed them as such by early 1945 in a joint report to Heinrich Himmler.
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Make of it what you will!
