Hitler spent almost two months in the Red Cross hospital at Beelitz, returning to his regiment on 5 March 1917.[40] On 15 October 1918, he was temporarily blinded by a mustard gas attack and was hospitalised in Pasewalk.[41] While there, Hitler learnt of Germany's defeat,[42] and—by his own account—on receiving this news, he suffered a second bout of blindness.[43]