eyewitness
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]The eyewitness
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number833.914/0006
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]08757
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Boston, Massachusetts, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Houghton Mifflin
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
1977
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]viii, 206p.
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Book
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]0395253365
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
Written in 1938, Weiss describes a young German veteran of World War I, identified as "A.H.," who has been sent to a military hospital because he is suffering from hysterical blindness (now termed conversion disorder). The character is evidently modeled on Adolf Hitler, who was indeed treated for conversion disorder at a military hospital in Pasewalk, but scholars dispute to what extent the account is fictional