“Adolf Hitler’s Ghost” by Elizabeth Maria Schmid, MD is now available for purchase
“…all mundane things can be lost so easily, whereas the only thing that cannot be stolen, is what is in one’s brain, in other words, education.”
– an excerpt from the book
“Adolf Hitler’s Ghost” by Elizabeth Maria Schmid, MD, has been published by Author Reputation Press. The author dedicates this book to all those who have had traumatic experiences because of dictatorships and wars. This is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the ARP website.
Elizabeth Maria was born in Vienna, Austria, just before Adolf Hitler occupied Austria. She then became a German citizen, and her father was drafted into the German Army to fight for Mr. Hitler in Russia. He had opposed Adolf Hitler openly and first lost his job at the University of Vienna, then was sent to Russia. Miraculously, he survived Stalingrad and five years in Russian prison camps.
Elizabeth, her sister, and their mother spent most of the war in small villages to get away from the constant bombing raids on the big cities. After the war, she could go back to Vienna and attend high school there.
During the 6th grade of high school, she received an AFS scholarship to the USA and spent one year in Erie, Pennsylvania, with an American family. After graduating from medical school, she did a residency in pathology. As a result of some lucky circumstances, she was invited by Stanford University, CA, on a fellowship in pathology.
She fell in love with California and decided to stay there; she continued her residency at the Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. After she could afford to buy a nice house in Los Angeles, she brought her three children to America.
She stayed in LA until her retirement at the age of 66 and moved to Santa Fe, NM, where she became a painter with the help of the Community College in Santa Fe. She now lives in Albuquerque, NM, and works as a professional painter.
In her autobiography, “Adolf Hitler’s Ghost,” by Elizabeth Maria Schmid, MD, describes how Elizabeth, as a young child, experienced the war, even though her family was not Jewish. She believes that dictators’ traumatic experiences affect a society not only during their lifetime but for several generations afterward.
Though some Germans and Austrians may not have directly experienced the horrific acts in the gas chambers, they are still psychologically affected, causing lifelong stress disorders.
“Adolf Hitler’s Ghost” by Elizabeth Maria Schmid, MD is now available for purchase via ARP Bookstore: https://authorreputationpress.com/products/adolf-hitler-s-ghost.