The Man Who Drugged Hitler- Dr Theodor Morell
Dr. Theodor Morell, Adolph Hitler’s personal physician drugged him for many years with highly addictive substances. Morell’s dope could be the cause of Hitler’s insanity and deteriorating health.
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5 min readSep 22, 2020
In the Nazi ideology, drugs were seen as harmful poisons that pollute the body.
The Nazi Party used this analogy and went one step further and dictated that Jews are like drugs to German society, and Nazi propaganda portrayed Hitler as a teetotaler. The Fuhrer was marketed as a pure vegetarian and anon-alcoholic who was free of any drugs.
When the Nazi Party came to power, concentration camps started to fill with drug addicts. Still, drugs saw wide use in the German army, air force, navy, and hypocritically by Hitler himself.
Introduction to Hitler:
Dr Theodor Morell was a famous gynecologist in Berlin who treated politicians and celebrities.
Morell got a call from the Nazi SS office to come immediately to their headquarters to treat…
