What the doctor ordered for Hitler – bull semen and speed

Published Date: 06 February 2010
By Alan Hall

NEW research on the fragile health of Adolf Hitler has discovered he was on 82 different sorts of medication during his rule of Nazi Germany.

Among them was a primitive form of Viagra, testosterone extract, which he requested when his mistress Eva Braun was staying with him.

The authors of a new book, Was Hitler Ill?, accessed long-dormant medical archives and formerly classified military documents to try to establish whether Hitler's state of health was in some way responsible for the monstrosity of his behaviour.

They also trawled through the papers of Dr Theodor Morell, regarded as a quack among many in the Nazis' upper echelons but whom Hitler came to rely on with increasing urgency during the war. His records show that Hitler had a fear of pills, so Dr Morrell injected most of his potions.

In 1944, Dr Morell began giving Hitler injections of testosterone and a cocktail made from the semen and prostate glands of young bulls. Hitler believed this would give him the necessary energy for his encounters with the much younger Eva, who would die with him a year later in the Berlin bunker as his new bride.

Other findings show that he had a mortal fear of cancer, suffered high blood pressure, cramps and headaches, and had polyps removed from his vocal chords several times – perhaps the results of too much shouting at rallies and, later, at his generals.

Historian Henrik Eberle and Hans-Joachim Neumann, a professor emeritus of medicine at Berlin's Charité University Hospital, said their research showed that he suffered terribly from wind and took "massive" amounts of anti-flatulence drugs, which contained small amounts of the deadly poison strychnine.

Dr Morell gave Hitler small doses of Pervitin, a form of amphetamine. He also gave him glucose, intravenous injections of methamphetamine, barbiturates, opiates and assorted other drugs. At one stage of the war he was on 28 different medications a day, among a plethora of drugs that reached a total of 82.

The authors conclude that at the end, Hitler was suffering from Parkinson's disease, but they state: "At no time did Hitler suffer from pathological delusions. He was always aware of his actions. He was fully responsible."


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