Maranhão-Filho Péricles, Silva Carlos Eduardo da Rocha E
Department of Neurology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Arq Neuropsiquiatr. 2010 Oct;68(5):826-30. doi: 10.1590/s0004-282x2010000500032.
This article deals with a little known episode that occurred near the end of the Great War in a military reserve hospital located in the small town of Pasewalk, part of the distant region of Pomerania in northern Poland. The story is centered around the transient visual loss of a 29-year-old Austrian messenger of the 16th Bavarian Infantry Regiment. His name: Adolf Hitler.