European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 08, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse Fanner patient proudly holds giant Carrot grown. \ n in Fields. Most patients have split " air grounds and modern tearing for 3200 patients. On their Way Back to to their quarters after a Day s work on the hos Pital farm a group of patients pass the Ward for violent cases. Ler selves. You can t support a family Jon ideals Jug Fri producing his keys again the pro a now entered the children s Ward Lere a Young woman introduced to me Caroline Gassier was teaching a Agdass. It was not much different from Ordinary kindergarten. Possibly the Ler was More patient and the Chil More quiet than usual. I like my work extremely Well Julein Gassner told me. I have been fat Elfing for 12 years and regard myi Job Here As a proposition for life. These children Are learning quite Well. It Only takes a Little More time than in Normal and i am so proud to get re sults the children eagerly showed us Many toys which they had made them selves and the teacher explained that children Are taught mostly handicraft work since regular school work is too difficult for them to n the Kitchen building which we sub sequently entered women patients were peeling potatoes a major part of the 2000-calorie diet Given to Elfing inmates. This is several Hundred Calo Ries More than the average German i ration. Other. Women were Busy sewing i and making shoes out of wehrmacht Parachute straps in a workshop. They greeted the professor enthusiastically a and kidded him and me. right Back. These patients he of explained were much improved and their work was part of the therapy. Be we were glad to get these Para shiite parts he said. The frightful Lack Jot All the Good things of daily life has Al if Teady More or less wrecked Bur occupy a Tohal therapy. Nearly All materials we to keep up our shops Are Una Vail during the bad season inmates who Are quite Able to do some or Educ Tive work in the Park or in the Fields can t go out for Lack of solid the professor frowned and went on. We Vei had to abandon much of our occupy penal therapy which is especially helpful apr the patients. This work was a kind patient wants his release he is still sick. A improved Case will know that he is Here for his own Good and would no task to get out before he has recovered. Only then is he permitted a furlough tand if everything goes Well i will decide " to release him for Good. If the patient has been dangerous before i notify the it but decision about releasing patients is entirely up to the director of on the Way but to the Garden timid girl at the door gave us the nazi Salute. In the. Garden patients were standing in Little groups and sitting around. Some were strangely dressed others looked like social Register Dow agers at a Tea party. On a Garden Bench in a Remote Corner i met As Braun Riihl advised me in Advance an interesting Case of a. Spinster sporting an old fashioned Bonnet graciously acknowledged Braun Huhl s introductions and startled me with exclaiming i am not mad this is 1948. I have been Here More than 16 years do you want to know How Many months or Days i read the papers if i get them Only there Are not Many. I know perfectly Well where i am. This is a Loon bin. Look at these mad this seemed a Normal observation but the she leaned Over to Braun Riihl and de Nian ded in an intense voice when do you let me out Herr professor you never keep your promises. I am not chloroform Type. Every night these Nar Cotic and electric gangs perform the most horrible operations on miss a As Braun Riihl suggested i refer to her used to be a nurse. With a lot of medical details she told about her persecutions and How she writes letters to prominent people she finally Roundup the conversation by declaring in the whole world is As innocents it am."., professor Calls these cases systematical delusions and As miss e imagines things about operations and narcotics others apply their outlet for Many inmates who have clouded minds to. The Field of to become violent at Elfing the traditional Strait jackets cold and hot Baths for unruly patients have been replaced by drugs which Braun Riihl likes to describe As lexical Strait in a closed Ward for women i saw Tese drugs in action. Patients of allies were sleeping half awake or Mut ing to themselves in the dormitory Sital Beds. In the living room the Omen we met had the same questions3 their male counterparts. When Are i permitted to get out of Here Herr. They asked he told me that As Long As a May him formerly Many inmates Here and another institutions believed themselves to be the German emperor or Hindenburg Braun Muhl explained. Under the nazis of course we had a few since Hitler is dead no other personality has. Replaced him Here. It s no worthwhile for the tune an increase of insanity resulting directly from the War has not been noticed at Elfing. Braun Muhl also Hadnot seen or heard any general neurotic or psychotic reaction on the removal of the nazis after the defeat of Ger was slightly. Irritated by my questions which he termed Lay psychiatry but answered nevertheless. I was informed that it is a Layman s Yiew. To regard alcoholics or certain proves Sio is As especially conducive to insanity. You can drink yourself to death with ". Out getting insane he smiled. Physio logical damage1 naturally is quite an / other concerning the theory of some psychiatrists that postwar Germany is nation suffering from a mass dementia Pra Cox Braun Muhl forwarded his opinion that external influences Natur ally Are Apt to cause manifestations of unbalance among whole nations. This certainly has been established by every sober observer not Only in Germany but All Over the world.? however Germany As a nation he said emphatically is not suffering from a mass dementia Pra Cox but from As an afterthought he added one should be careful in. Using these terms of collective mental the nazi Superman Complex How Ever which has. Been found to exist in Germany by various psychiatrists As form of neurotic assertion of will 6ver other Peoples is widely dispersed according to Braun Muhl. It can be said for All times and nations he pointed out that every political Power leads to misuse but every absolute Power re suits in ruin. History shows that no nation is immune from this j. Leaving gladly the province of what he labelled As Lay psychiatry the pro Fessor now launched into the topic of his pet project i modern therapy for the continued on 2 a0e 22 of water Coler is product of demented mind one of few patients with Hitler Complex
