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We can see from the fall of 1941 to the winter of 1944 Hitler's drug abuse increases significantly. From that moment on, he asked Morell to give him stronger stuff than just vitamins. And he was really struck by this immediate recovery from this opiate, which was called Dolantin. Hitler, who had suffered from high fever, immediately felt well again and was able to go to the meeting and tell the generals how the war should continue, how the daily operations should continue. He gave him an opiate that day, and he also gave him a hormone injection. He couldn't go to the military briefing, which was unheard of before, and Morell gave him something different that day.

Morell was famous for giving vitamin injections, and Hitler, with his healthy diet, immediately believed in this doctor and got daily vitamin injections.īut then as the war turned difficult for Germany in 1941 against Russia in the fall, Hitler got sick for the first time. Hitler met a doctor called Theo Morell in 1936. Theodor Morell prescribing drugs to Hitler during the war years Your purchase helps support NPR programming. "Then in '43 the third phase starts, which is the heavy opiate phase."Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title Blitzed Subtitle Drugs in the Third Reich Author Norman Ohler and Shaun Whiteside The second phase starts in the fall of 1941 with the first opiate, but especially with the first hormone injections," Ohler says. "The first one are the vitamins given in high doses intravenously. He cites three different phases of the Fuhrer's drug use. Ohler's new book, Blitzed, which is based in part on the papers of Hitler's private physician, describes the role of drugs within the Third Reich. he had lost in the course of the war," Ohler says. "Hitler needed those highs to substitute his natural charisma, which. Instead, it was a mix of cocaine and opioids that he had become increasingly dependent upon. His generals wondered if he had a secret weapon up his sleeve, something that would change the war around in the last second.Īuthor Norman Ohler tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that Hitler did have a secret, but it wasn't a weapon.

Yet, in military briefings, Adolf Hitler's optimism did not wane. In 1944, World War II was dragging on and the Nazi forces seemed to be faltering. Author Norman Ohler says that Hitler's abuse of drugs increased "significantly" from the fall of 1941 until the winter of 1944. German dictator Adolf Hitler gives a speech in October 1944.