WI: Hitler Goes Blind in 1938

What if Hitler developed complete blindness in the early months of 1938 (prior to the Anschluss) , due to long term complications from his exposure to Mustard gas in WWI?

Does he get removed from power? If so, who takes over and what geo-political course might they take?
 
Hitler had some problem with his eyes

He vainly refused to ware spectacles in public
it went so fare that his text for public speeches or important document
were type on special typewriter who used character four time higher as Normal
What Hitler could read without spectacles

His temporarily blindness and wordlessness during World war one was do hysteria reaction, not to use of mustard gas.
blindness by Mustard gas would have so high doses, that Hitler left disfigure and with burn lungs
no way Hitler under condition had made any career what so ever after 1918.

but Mustard gas is carcinogenic, maybe that could help you, GlobalHumanism
that Hitler got cancer in his eyes, what let to surgically removal of his eyes in 1938.
 
Hitler had some problem with his eyes


but Mustard gas is carcinogenic, maybe that could help you, GlobalHumanism
that Hitler got cancer in his eyes, what let to surgically removal of his eyes in 1938.


Does not even have to be cancerous the build up of scar tissue inside or just behind the eyeball would likely do the job.

The choice either way would be either some effort to conceal the problem or playing the blind seer card to the German public.
 
Does not even have to be cancerous the build up of scar tissue inside or just behind the eyeball would likely do the job.

The choice either way would be either some effort to conceal the problem or playing the blind seer card to the German public.

Yeah in researching the question I too found that Mustard Gas can cause scar tissue to grow in areas effected long after an attack.

And do you think the public would buy that, let alone the Nazi Hierarchy? (the blind seer)
 
Yeah in researching the question I too found that Mustard Gas can cause scar tissue to grow in areas effected long after an attack.

And do you think the public would buy that, let alone the Nazi Hierarchy? (the blind seer)


Actually I think it could be played as harking back to early German mythology hence why I mentioned it as an option.

You would really need a more widely read German cultural scholar than I to be sure of the best precedents but I do reckon the Nazi propaganda machine could do it. For the Party hierarchy there is little choice but to keep on backing Hitler (either by concealing or extolling the issue) as the rest of the German power structure largely only tolerated them because of the Fuhrer.
 
WI the mere smell of certain chemicals (e.g. mustard) triggered Hitler's PTSD? .... turning him into a raving lunatic?
.... er ...... On that theory, Hitler snorted mustard before every public speach!
Hah!
Hah!
 
According to the 1937 edition of Inside Europe, John Gunther wrote that (paraphrasing slightly) the consensus was that Hitler was a virgin at the time.
 
Yeah in researching the question I too found that Mustard Gas can cause scar tissue to grow in areas effected long after an attack.

And do you think the public would buy that, let alone the Nazi Hierarchy? (the blind seer)

The Higher ups, maybe not. The Rank and File? Sure.
 
Wotaaaan!

If it were only one eye, he could wear a bandage and perch a couple of ravens on his shoulders. Real Teutonic mything eyeball.

He did always talk about being a blind man guided by Providence, so...

But would be become even more reckless in his gambles? Or less? (It is arguable his recklessness was what gave the early and pre-war successes, whereas a more cautious course would have crashed and burned quickly.)
 
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Propaganda Photo, authorise by Goebbels

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The Reality, Photo by Eva Braun...

I wounded if NSDAP would do same effort to conceal the truth that Hitler had become blind
 
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