What happened to Hitler in 1918 after hypnosis? On the evening of October 13, 1918, at the front near the Belgian city of Verwick, the British 30th Division attacked the positions of the 16th Bavarian Regiment. Shells filled with mustard gas (mustard gas) fell on the heads of the Germans. One of them, at seven o'clock in the morning on October 14, exploded near the field kitchen, where Corporal Adolf Hitler and his colleagues were having breakfast. Hitler's eyes began to "burn with pain" from the gas, and after a while he completely ceased to see. Since there were no external signs of damage to the eyes and optic nerve, the frontline doctors sent Hitler to the psychiatric ward of the reserve hospital in the city of Pasewalk There the patient was examined by a psychiatrist Edmund Forster. According to the testimony of the doctor Karl Moritz Kroner, who was then working in Pasewalk, Forster diagnosed Corporal Hitler with "hysterical blindness." This meant that physically the patient was able to see, but his consciousness refused to "accept" visual information. Hitler's body unconsciously "simulated" blindness, so as not to return back to the trenches. The treatment started by Dr. Forster quickly restored Hitler's sight. A month later, the corporal recovered. However, he was discharged from the infirmary as a completely different person. In 1938, Ernst Weiss, in his novel "The Witness," published the story of a doctor treating a blind soldier with the initials A.H using hypnosis. Researchers do not exclude that a copy of Hitler's medical record made by Forster could have been at Weiss's disposal. This hypothesis was taken seriously by historian Rudolph Binion and forensic psychiatrist David Post, as well as neuropsychologist David Lewis, author of The Man Who Invented Hitler. According to their reconstruction of events, Dr. Forster relied on Hitler's willpower and patriotism during hypnosis. The result, as you know, exceeded the doctor's expectations. Hitler not only received his sight, but also devoted his further life to the "revival of Germany." During the era of the Weimar Republic, Professor Forster thrived as head of the Clinic for Nervous Diseases in Berlin. But when his former patient came to power in 1933, the psychiatrist started to get into trouble. In August, a scammer wrote to SA that Forster favored the Jews who worked at his clinic. When the investigators began to "dig", it turned out that the doctor was disloyal to the authorities, in particular, he did not believe in the official version of the Reichstag arson. This was enough for Forster to be fired from the clinic. On September 11, 1933, the doctor committed suicide under strange circumstances.