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I didn't know where to put this as this isn't exactly a thread meant for a TL, but to answer some questions of medical nature.

One thing on which I wonder is the consequences of Hitler's Parkinson disease on his health.
Looking at the most conservative estimate I could find, based on photos and videos, the first symptoms appeared in mid 1941, even though some advance earlier dates. That has led to some speculation over the impact of the disease over the conduct of the war by Hitler, though the thing that interests me is to know, within the context of a no WWII scenario, kind of an alternate cold war, how long Hitler would have lived or how long he would have effectively ruled before being rendered impotent by the disease.

For instance, in The Man in the High Castle or even in Fatherland, we see Hitler alive into the 1960s. But I found it a bit odd given the Parkinson disease Hitler suffered from.
From what I found on the history, the development of cure for Parkinson disease was relatively late, not before the 1950s at least, so I guess Hitler's health would be prone to decline quickly into the 1950s.
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