Hitler was a heroin addict

Adolf Hitler took heroin during World War II, while his troops were using so-called Pervitin, a precursor to methamphetamine, reports the Patria News Agency.

“The Total Rush; Drugs in the Third Reich” by Norman Ohler reveals that the leaders of the Third Reich were on serious stimulants.

Ohler had access to the notes of Dr. Theodor Morell, who treated Hitler and his men. By the time Germany conquered France in May 1940, more than 35 million soldiers and bureaucrats were taking various pills daily. Wehrmacht reports showed that about 200 million Pervitin pills were procured for the troops between 1939 and 1945, and research by the German Medical Association showed that the Nazis developed this cocaine-based stimulant by testing it on prisoners in concentration camps.

“A man named Dr. Fritz Hauschild, formerly Temmler's chief pharmacologist, was the man behind the production. It was methamphetamine that could be taken without a prescription, and millions used it,” says Ohler, who researched this topic for three years for the book.

“It was socially acceptable. Chocolates with methamphetamine were even made, to make arduous housework easier for women. The success of the Blitzkrieg can be attributed to the fact that no one in the German troops was sleepy.”

Pervitin was declared an illegal substance in 1941, but soldiers continued to take it, Ohler's research showed.

Otto Ranke, a military doctor and director of the Institute for General Physiology at the Berlin Academy of Military Medicine, was behind the distribution of Pervitin. He discovered that this drug increased self-confidence and sharpened the senses. On the Eastern Front, where the fiercest battles were fought in harsh conditions, doctors gave soldiers Pervitin to endure low temperatures and boost their morale.

However, they were relatively sober compared to their leader. Hitler took 82 different types of drugs, including a primitive “Viagra”, heroin, and morphine.

Dr. Morell even injected Hitler with testosterone and a cocktail made from the sperm and prostate secretions of young bulls. Hitler was addicted to Eukodal, a precursor to heroin, and took it most in the autumn of 1944.

“He used that strong drug that made him euphoric, even when reality was not bright at all. Generals persistently warned him that they had to change tactics, to end the war, but he did not want to hear it. He asked Dr. Morell to give him drugs that made him feel invincible in a hopeless situation,” says Ohler.

According to his findings, Hitler had a terrible phobia of cancer, suffered from high blood pressure, stomach cramps, headaches, and had polyps removed from his vocal cords several times.

He also suffered from bloating and took huge amounts of medication to regulate this problem, which contained small amounts of strychnine, an ingredient in rat poison.

Dr. Morell was captured by the Americans and died of tuberculosis in a camp in 1949. Dr. Peter Masterson, a historian who studied Morell for the US government after the war, says he is a man who betrayed medical ethics.

“However, in a strange way, perhaps the Allies can thank him for turning Adolf Hitler into a broken, drug-dependent shell who was unable to make decisions about the war,” he wrote, writes B92.