Trust a bunch of psychiatrists! They always of course know better than anyone else. What encounter with a Jewish prostitute in 1908?
Hitler arrived in Vienna for the second time on 14 February 1908 and on 22 February he was joined by his close friend Kubizek. At that date both were working on a Wagnerian-style opera Wieland the Smith, with which Hitler hoped to achieve world fame. He neither drank nor smoked and never went in taverns. He was obsessive about his health to the point of hypochondria.
Indeed, the
only witness to his time in Vienna in 1908 is August Kubizek, known to Hitler as Kustl - Reinhold Hanisch is a later witness. This is what Professor Ian Kershaw, in his massive two-volume biography says
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Apart from his distant admiration for Stephanie in Linz, Kubizek knew of Hitler having no relations with any woman during the three years of their acquaintance in both Linz and Vienna. This would not alter during his remaining years in the Austrian capital. None of the accounts of Hitler's time in the Men's Home gives a hint of any woman in his life. When his circle of acquaintances got round to discussing women - and doubtless, their own former girlfriends and sexual experiences - the best Hitler could come up with was a veiled reference to Stephanie, who had been his 'first love' - though 'she never knew it, because he never told her'. The impression left with Reinhold Hanisch was that 'Hitler had very little respect for the female sex, but very austere ideas about relations between men and women. He often said that, if men only wanted to, they could adopt a strictly moral way of living.' This was entirely in line with the moral code preached by the Schönerer pan-Germans. Celibacy until the twenty-fifth year, the code advocated, was healthy, advantageous to strength of will, and the basis of physical or mental high achievement. The cultivation of corresponding dietary habits was advised. Eating meat and drinking alcohol - seen as stimulants to sexual activity - were to be avoided. And upholding the strength and purity of the Germanic race meant keeping free of moral decadence and danger of infection which accompanied consorting with prostitutes, who should be left to clients of 'inferior races'. Here was justification enough for Hitler's chaste lifestyle and prudish morals. But, in any case, certainly in the time in Vienna after he parted company with Kubizek, Hitler was no 'catch' for women. Hitler 1889-1936, page 44
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This is not a matter for debate, there is no evidence whatsoever that he had syphilis, and trying to prove that he had it from what he wrote in
Mein Kampf is just plain silly.
I have the 1939 edition of
Mein Kampf. In 567 pages of text Hitler refers to syphilis in pages 209-216 in a rant about it being a scourge polluting the purity of the race. Syphilis was a dreadful disease in the 19th and early 20th centuries, it aroused fears much like AIDS does today. It was also then far more virulent than it is now, having mutated since penicillin was discovered.
Peter