page_title: Carlshof Institutions
section_title: Wolfsschanze hospital
hierarchical_section_title: Carlshof Institutions / History / Wolfsschanze hospital
caption_attribution_description: English: Appears In: United States. Army. Forces in the European Theater. Military Intelligence Service Center. Hitler as seen by his doctors. Image Description: X-ray image of Adolf Hitler's head. Hitler as seen by his doctors, between annex I and III. NLM Hidden treasure p. 195 resource.nlm.nih.gov/101569502 ihm.nlm.nih.gov
context_page_description: The Carlshof Institutions was a diaconal hospital in Carlshof, East Prussia. Founded in 1882, it was located about 3 km east of the town center of Rastenburg. Carlshof housed up to 1,500 inmates from all over East Prussia and specialized in treating patients suffering from epilepsy and intellectual disability; it also cared for alcoholics, elderly, and juveniles as well as homeless persons. In World War II, Carlshof served as a military hospital and barracks for Hitler's nearby headquarters at the Wolf's Lair.
context_section_description: Carlshof was taken over by the SS on 11 February 1941, which used the buildings as military hospital and barracks for the SS guards of the  Wolf's Lair. Wilhelmsdorf became the airfield of Hitler's headquarters and the place of Fritz Todt's plane crash on 8 February 1942, the victims of the crash were laid out in the former Carlshof chapel. Claus von Stauffenberg used the airfield in the 20 July plot for his flight from and to Berlin. Hitler and the members of his staff wounded by Stauffenberg's bomb were treated in the Carlshof military hospital; Rudolf Schmundt, Günther Korten, and Heinz Brandt died here. In September and October 1944, five x-rays of Hitler's skull were made in the Carlshof hospital.
  In 1947, after the expulsion of the local population, an agricultural school was established on the clinic grounds.
caption: X-ray of Hitler's skull
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