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Eduard Bloch

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The Resume

    (January 30, 1872-June 1, 1945)
    Born in Frauenberg, Austria-Hungary (now Hluboka nad Vltavou, Czech Republic)
    Operated a private practice in Linz, Austria (1901-38)
    Best known as the physician to Adolf Hitler's family (1904-07)
    Emigrated to the United States to escape the Third Reich's Anti-Semitic policies (1940)

Why he might be annoying:

    He drove a hansom.
    He ironically died within only a month of Adolf Hitler.
    His medical casebook notes on the Hitler family were called extremely difficult to decipher.
    He gave Klara Hitler fatally extreme overdoses of Iodoform as a treatment for her breast cancer.
    He may have done so at the urging of her anguished son, although it has since been argued that small dosages of morphine would have killed the pain, and quite inexpensively.
    The botched chemotherapy caused Hitler's mother's condition to worsen, leading to months of unbearable agony before she finally died on December 21 (she was buried on Christmas Eve).
    His failure to cure Klara Hitler of her cancer has led some to conclude that, because Bloch was Jewish, he was the source of Hitler's fanatical hatred of the Jewish race, and thus the indirect cause of the Holocaust.
    This, despite the fact that Hitler maintained on good terms with Dr. Bloch throughout his life, sending him warmly written postcards and forever affirming undying gratitude to him for his caring for his mother.
    Even more inexplicably, if he were the source of Hitler's homicidal racism, one wonders why Hitler helped him to secure a coveted visa enabling him to flee Austria for the US.
    He annoyed interviewers when, even at the height of WWII, he consistently asserted that the Hitler he knew was a 'nice young man.'
    The tendency for Holocaust scholars to blame him for Hitler's anti-Semitism has caused a mini rift in the scholarly field, with several of his old colleagues forming 'truth squads' which heckle specific scholars during their lectures.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was a distant relative of Franz Kafka.
    He was known as a caring physician to the poor.
    He was on call at all times, even late hours in the night.
    He was known for not charging his less advantaged patients.
    Ron Rosenbaum termed his scapegoating, 'the Bungling Jewish Doctor Theory.'
    He was good friends with the feminist advocate, Hedda Wagner, who dedicated one of her books to him.
    Jay Neugeboren's book, '1940,' focuses on his life after his emigration to the Bronx.
    He was unable to practice medicine in America because his medical license was only valid in Austria-Hungary.
    Hitler apparently gifted him with one of his infamous wall paintings, which has since been lost (heartache...)
    He later called Hitler 'the saddest man I had ever seen,' also saying that his mother 'would turn in her grave if she knew what became of him.'
    Along with Herschel Grynszpan, he has been unfairly blamed for unwittingly causing the most infamous mass genocide in history.

Credit: BoyWiththeGreenHair


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