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Was Hitler a Drug Addict?

Cocaine, Bull Semen, and Other Fun Facts

Filippo Loreto, BSc
Write A Catalyst
2 min readDec 14, 2024

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You probably don’t know this about Hitler, but he suffered from stomach cramps, diarrhea, and chronic flatulence.

His doctor, Theodor Morell, assured him he knew exactly how to stop his symptoms. To alleviate his problems, he simply injected him with a watery fluid of which he didn’t reveal the ingredients, and it worked wonders! After every injection, Hitler felt full of energy and didn’t feel any pain.

An SS doctor, skeptic of Dr Morell’s cure, tested the fluid in a laboratory. Turns out, it was amphetamines.

Hitler wasn’t bothered by the nature of the cures, as long as they worked. So Dr Morell kept on going, and shortly after Hitler was regularly administered testosterone, opiates, sedatives, laxatives, morphine, and bull semen (all while invading Russia).

Naturally, cocaine was on the list too. Dr Morell, conscious of the fact that Hitler cared only about feeling better after taking a medication, gave him 10x the normal dose of cocaine (by the means of eye drops).

Shortly after, Hitler was so addicted that he started snorting cocaine to “clear his sinuses and soothe his throat”.

Hitler also suffered from a lack of sexual drive, for which he was injected with extracts from the prostate glands of young bulls.

It is ironic that the man charged with restoring Hitler to good health probably did more than anyone else to contribute to his decline — Giles Milton, author of When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost his Brain

This is the summary of a story taken from the above-mentioned book, filled with interesting and fun details of “History’s unknown chapters”, I suggest looking the book up!

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Filippo Loreto, BSc
Filippo Loreto, BSc

Written by Filippo Loreto, BSc

Bocconi University | Columbia University | Economics and Social Sciences. I like to apply the economics framework of thought to a vast array of topics.

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