Hitler may have suffered from Parkinson’s Disease, according to a paper presented at a conference Wednesday on the degenerative illness. The effects of the disease, which researchers believe may have afflicted Hitler for at least a decade, may have caused the Nazi leader’s inability to respond effectively to the Allies’ D-Day invasion in 1944. The researchers cited doctors’ reports from 1944 and 1945 as evidence for their conclusions.
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