Hitler loved Cocaine! | #249
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Friends,
Here’s a spicy hot take:
Adolf Hitler was not a very nice man.
Here’s the thing: Even with all his tendencies, Hitler was pushed to the extremes by one man.
This week we try to do things a little differently and give you a short biography about one man who aided in the worst atrocities humankind has seen.
Things we learnt this week 🤓
For all you know, Adolf Hitler, might have been “little less evil” if he had never made contact with one Dr Theodor Morell. Morell was a medical officer during World War I, and after the war, he established a private practice known for its “unconventional treatments”. He was trained as a gynaecologist and catered to an affluent clientele and gained popularity for addressing skin and sexually transmitted diseases.
Morell joined the Nazi Party enamoured by Hitler in 1933. In 1935, he treated Hitler's personal photographer Heinrich Hoffman successfully, which made Hoffman recommend Morell to Hitler.
Hitler had long suffered from ill health, including stomach disorders, diarrhoea and most embarrassingly chronic flatulence. Yes, Hitler farted a lot! He used to leave the table after each meal to fart away from people. It is believed that this issue was a result of his terrible vegetarian diet. After abandoning meat consumption in 1931, Hitler consumed vast amounts of watery vegetables, which were either pureed or mashed into a soft consistency. Dr. Morell promised Hitler that he would assist him in addressing his “minor issue” though a simple aamchur or garlic could have helped here.
Instead, the weapon of choice were little black tablets called Dr Kuster's Anti-gas pills. Hitler took 16 a day. The tablets contained strychnine. It alleviated Hitler's farting problem, but almost certainly caused Hitler to have attention lapses and sallow skin that marked his final years. Morell next prescribed a type of E. coli bacteria called Mutaflor, which stabilized Hitler's bowel problems. Hitler made Morell his personal physician and invited him to join the inner circle of the Nazi Party.
Hitler suffered from morning grogginess. To alleviate this, Morell injected him with a watery fluid. The active ingredient was called "Vitamultin". This energized Hitler on every occasion it was administered, and Hitler was full of energy. Vitamultin was nothing but meta-amphetamine!
Hitler didn't care as long as he was feeling good and kept Morell in charge of his health with disastrous consequences. He directed the invasion of the USSR while being pumped with 80 different drugs - including testosterone, opiates, sedatives and laxatives along with barbiturates, morphine, bull semen and probiotics. Talk about a bad trip.
But the most surprising drug Morell administered was cocaine! Yep, he administered the good stuff in the form of eye drops with 10 times more cocaine than permissible as a medicine. Such a concentrated dose may have well triggered the psychotic behavior that Hitler was to experience in his later years. Hitler LOVED cocaine! Documents discovered in 2012 show that Hitler was dependent on the drug. He craved it. As well as eye drops, he now began to snort powdered cocaine to "clear his sinuses and soothe his throat."
In later years, Hitler became increasingly erratic. During a meeting with Mussolini, Hitler juiced by the cocktail of drugs from Morell, was hysterical. He was completely hyper in every way - talking, gabbling and clearly on some substance.
As the war drew to a close, Hitler was in very poor health and was extremely dependent on the drugs. Eva Braun accused Morell of making Hitler a cocaine addict as Hitler's arms were punctured with many hypodermic marks.
Morell was captured by the Americans after the fall of Hitler. The Americans were disgusted by the surprising lack of personal hygiene of the doctor - He had acrid halitosis and an appalling body odour. Morell died of a stroke in 1948 and left behind notebooks that reveal the extraordinary drug addiction of his favorite patient - Hitler. It is ironic that the man who had to restore to good health, did more than anyone else to contribute to his decline and in turn destroyed humanity a little bit more.
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