Did Syphilis Cause the Holocaust?

clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk A brief encounter with a Jewish prostitute may have led to Hitler's genocidal Holocaust, They believe he may have caught the sexually transmitted disease syphilis which, if untreated, can eventually cause madness. Hitler, who reportedly had sex with a Jewish prostitute in Vienna in 1908, put syphilis high on his political agenda, devoting 13 pages to the disease in his book Mein Kampf. The job of "combating syphilis - the Jewish disease - should be the task of the entire German nation," "The health of the nation will be regained only by eliminating the Jews." He said well-documented aspects of Hitler's behaviour and health such as mood swings, paranoid rages, rashes and stomach problems were typical of syphilis. Before antibiotic treatments were developed, syphilis was incurable and could cause madness after a latent stage lasting many years. Some historians have laid Hitler's health problems partly at Dr Morrell's door, claiming he may even deliberately poisoned his patient.