https://irving.video/videos/watch/f6505346-ae45-4385-9acc-6d0fa1ac01d7 OverviewA lecture delivered at the University of Kansas City in 1986 in which historian David Irving examines the medical histories of twentieth-century world leaders, with particular focus on Adolf Hitler's physicians and their influence on his physical and mental condition. Irving emphasizes primary source research methods and critiques secondary accounts and propaganda that have obscured Hitler's actual medical record. Topics coveredIntroduction and Irving's methodology for historical research based on original documents and firsthand testimony 00:05:00, Medical ailments affecting major World War II leaders: Roosevelt, Churchill, and Hitler 00:05:00, Wartime propaganda and disinformation campaigns used to discredit enemy leaders 00:07:00, William Langer's OSS psychological evaluation of Hitler and its unreliability 00:08:03, Myths and legends surrounding Hitler's health: syphilis, impotence, and Parkinson's disease 00:10:00, Dr. Theodor Morell as Hitler's principal physician and the controversies surrounding his medical practice 00:11:05, Libel cases brought by Morell's widow against authors who questioned his competence 00:12:02, Secondary historical accounts of Hitler's medical condition by Roehrs, Rechtenwald, and others 00:13:03, Felix Kersten's fabricated diaries and their problematic circulation in historical literature 00:14:02, Key momentsIrving describes how wartime propaganda damaged historical inquiry into Hitler's actual medical history: "historians, professors of history, even students of history do have a habit to go to the nearest library and take a book out of the bookshelf and read that rather than try and find the archives" 00:10:00, Irving explains the cascade of misinformation: secondary sources written by people with bias were filtered through OSS agents seeking "salacious material," resulting in a report now "virtually unusable from a point of view of obtaining the truth about Adolf Hitler" 00:09:03, Irving notes that Morell's widow pursued legal action against multiple authors, and that the Kerstin diaries, though proven fake when compared to newly surfaced Morell documents, continue to be quoted and cited 00:15:03, SourceRecorded at the University of Kansas City in 1986 as part of Irving's American lecture tour, introduced by Chairman Borg. The audience consisted of university students and faculty. No original broadcaster or publisher is identified in the available metadata; the recording appears to be an institutional archival capture of a public lecture event. About this archive: irving.video preserves the lectures, interviews, and TV appearances of historian David Irving. All videos are captioned, every transcript is searchable. Books at irvingbooks.com. Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:06:42 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://irving.video https://irving.video/lazy-static/avatars/217f0272-12b9-4650-9c50-a2b60755061b.jpg https://irving.video/videos/watch/f6505346-ae45-4385-9acc-6d0fa1ac01d7 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://irving.video/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.