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-169- At the time this happened he had bean expaaad to a slight attack of Bustard gas, fle innediately believed that he waa blinded and ape&chlepa* Although ha spent several v&eka In hoapitel, neither his Byaptanfl nor the developiwnt of the Illness corresponded to those found in genuine gas capes* It hue beau definitely established that both the blindness and the iflutiBin were of an hysterical nature. The physician who treated hi* at that tine found his case 30 typical of hysterical H^-mptoKB in general that for TWITS after the war he used i t ftfl an illufltrdtion in his courses given at a promlnant GenoAii aadical school, fa know fror a graat many other ca$*a that during the onset of such attficka the patient behaved In aaactly the flaae uajm«r as he did earlier in hia life vhen confronted by ft el tuition with the flan* emotional content* It i s as though the Individual were actually reliving the earlier experience over again. In Hitler1 a eaae this aarlier experitDO* ma almost eertaJUOy the discoTery of hit parent* in lntBt<joiir» and that ha interpreted this ai i brutal aauault in which he was pomrleaa. He re^ued to believe what his eyefl t*ld hfo and the experience laft hi* speechless, That this interpr*t*tion i s correct i s aTldencad by hie laaeery In dealing with the event later on. Over and over again wa find figure B of speech auch &B theflei - - w b y what wile* the aoul of the Geraan has been raped,* »..tcur Gertan paciflets pill paflfi over In alienee the moat bloody rape of the nation*" ihlch illustrate his eentlvente vary clearly* REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES