Newly released doctor’s letters show Adolf Hitler’s fear of illness

Carl Otto von Eicken, an ear, nose and throat specialist, treated Nazi dictator for 10 years from 1935

The Swiss descendent of one of Adolf Hitler's doctors has released details of letters that show how he treated the Nazi dictator for voice problems, the newspaper NZZ am Sonntag reported on Sunday.

The letters show Hitler's fear of serious illness. If there is something bad, I absolutely have to know," Hitler told the doctor after their first consultation in May 1935, according to the letters.