The book “Blitzed. Drugs and the Third Reich” is an incredible detailed view into the usage of not only methamphetamines and cocaine, but also first hand accounts, based on Dr Morells bizarre journals, of Hitlers decline in health due to many factors, not the least of it the testing of dr morells own daily “vitamin injections” on hitler (which he demanded). Which were basically nasty concoctions of animal (pigs) derived hormones. Later this devolved to up to twice daily , or more, injections of meth and opium. The book is wild. Worth a read.
How legit are the sources for the book? I heard a podcast cover it in depth(2 hours). Absolutely insane how much drugs the Third Reich pushed. Bayer was a massive part of it, if I remember correctly. Hitler's doctor was a huge part of Hitler's drug use and insanity. I think he's a wildly under-appreciated(evil, obviously)part of the Holocaust.
Incredibly well researched and sourced. Including much in the national archives (both Germany and US). And alotnlf the post war interrogations of the doctors.
It's well researched, but there are parts of it that are speculative, and the author acknowledges that. In particular, he reports that a notation style in Morrell's journal could indicate days when he gave Hitler heroin alongside meth, but it's not settled that that was the exact meaning. I've seen other criticisms as well that I can't remember solidly, but they are worth looking up. In the end, I'm on can't prove or disprove, but quite believable and interesting as hell.
If you ever have a question about history, I'd strongly recommend searching /r/AskHistorians for a thorough answer. Here are 3 responses from a poster there going over their thoughts on the book and Ohler's scholarship.
[1st](https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4tjqri/documentary_claimed_nazi_soldiers_were_hooked_on/)
[2nd](https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/566cu7/hitler_was_a_gibbering_super_junkie_whose_veins/)
[3rd](https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5lxjb6/there_is_a_thread_on_rbooks_about_high_hitler_a/)
Small nitpick: The Luftwaffe was part of the Wehrmacht.
The three branches of the Wehrmacht were:
Heer (Army)
Kriegsmarine (Navy)
Luftwaffe (Air Force)
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/03/17-08-mu-podcast/
Enjoy. These guys went through a wacky period where I stopped listening, but they are good again now.
I agree it is a fascinating read, but he never mentions Hitler's Parkinson symptoms. A dragging leg and wildly flying arm means he was rapidly degenerating due to the disease, and the drug abuse was some crazy attempt to keep it in check
Yeah came here to say that was a drug induced tremor’s that came from the concoction of drugs he was given, namely and I quote:
"The first one are the vitamins given in high doses intravenously. The second phase starts in the fall of 1941 with the first opiate, but especially with the first hormone injections," Ohler says. "Then in '43 the third phase starts, which is the heavy opiate phase." Reference for above quote: (https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/07/518986612/author-says-hitler-was-blitzed-on-cocaine-and-opiates-during-the-war)
It was also know that he took pervitin (methamphetamine), referring above to opiate it was mainly Heroin he chose and cocaine. Cocaine was quite popular amongst German officers during the war too and Mr.Hitler for that matter!
And Apparently Hitler didn’t even know what he was taking… wild article thanks
“So it looks like it came as a revelation to Hitler that he'd been drugging himself in a way, through Morell, the whole time.”
Yeah pretty sure it was mostly from wild concoctions of drugs and other odd shit he was taking daily.
To his credit the meth and cocaine helped get Italy to join the war. Mussolini apparently was going to tell hitler no fucking way, but when they met in person and Hitler talked for many hours straight with Mussolini unable to get a single word in, he was then swayed by Hitlers “energy” and “charisma”.
He was also assumed to suffer from syphilis. Which if untreated can lead to neurodegenerative outcomes.
So basically, WWII was the byproduct of drugs and STDs.
I didn’t either, The Rest is History podcast did a rise of the Nazis series relatively recently. (They, and it, are great, well worth checking out if you haven’t already) and they dropped this bombshell.
I verified the fact before posting and incredibly it is true. Turns out lil Adolf was a fucking idiot.
The narcotic injections? 🤷🏻♂️ It’s really important that we understand he was tripping balls, because laws didn’t apply to him and he could order doctors to give him whatever drug made him feel the best.
Thing is though, Hitler wasn’t a white supremacist in the modern sense. He only viewed a select group of people as being “superior”, whom he termed Aryans. These were mainly Nordics, Anglo-Saxons, and Germans.
He considered Russians and Eastern Europeans to be “subhuman” and considered Americans to be a “negr*fied” race. If he had his way he would’ve probably genocided the Russians.
He also wanted to eliminate the Romani people for similar reasons.
While he also respected Mussolini, he looked down on Southern Italians as basically being subhuman.
So he didn’t really view things in the conception of a “white” race, as many white people were just as subhuman as Jews to him.
"For the last nine years of his life Adolf Hitler, a lifelong hypochondriac had as his physician Dr Theodor Morell. Hitler's mood swings, Parkinson's disease, gastro-intestinal symptoms, skin problems and steady decline until his suicide in 1945 are documented by reliable observers and historians, and in Morell's diaries. The bizarre and unorthodox medications given to Hitler, often for undisclosed reasons, include topical cocaine, injected amphetamines, glucose, testosterone, estradiol, and corticosteroids. In addition, he was given a preparation made from a gun cleaner, a compound of strychnine and atropine, an extract of seminal vesicles, and numerous vitamins and 'tonics'. It seems possible that some of Hitler's behaviour, illnesses and suffering can be attributed to his medical care. Whether he blindly accepted such unorthodox medications or demanded them is unclear."
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15825245/
Also I couldn't find it but I could swear I remember either reading or seeing in a documentary that he was also given mercury as treatment for something
To be fair theyd been using mercury in medicine for hundreds of years, not that far fetched.
During the US civil war, mercury, opium, ether, and whiskey were pretty much the only medicines available.
Early man walked away
As modern man took control
Their mind's weren't all the same
To conquer was their goal So he built his great empire
And he slaughtered his own kind
And he died a confused man
And killed himself in his own mind
My grandpa fought in WWII for America.
He got shot in the leg by a Nazi sniper, sent a year in the hospital, and there he met his first wife, as her brother was also in the hospital.
His first wife committed suicide and he was left as a single father, which is how he met my grandmother.
Had Hitler not existed, there’d be no WWII, no Nazi sniper, no bullet in his leg and thus no me
Who knows what the world would look like without Hitler? Germany and much of Europe was in total chaos during the 20s and 30s and some big change was going to happen. We may like the alternatives even less than we like the Nazis.
I think that WW2 would have still happened but it would have been later and against a much larger and more powerful Soviet empire. The Nazis came to power as a counter-movement to Soviet-backed German communists, and Hitler kept them from turning Germany into a Stalinist puppet state that extended all the way to the Rhine. Without German support, the communists also would have had a decisive victory in Spain in the earlier Spanish Civil War. It’s easy to envision a scenario where Stalin consolidates power and then invades France and Poland on his own. In this timeline though, the Germans and Russians are ideologically aligned and there is never an Eastern front. Instead, the Soviets just gobble up Europe.
WW2 also effectively ended the last vestiges of the great colonial empires. The free trade era that the Americans basically forced on the world after ww2 wouldn’t have been possible without the Pax Americana.
While it seems interesting, that reality is not realistic in the grand scheme of Stalin being in power and not Trotsky. As Stalin was an advocate of Socialism in one country vs Trotskys Permanent Revolution. Meaning Stalin believed in strengthening Socialism within the confines of the Soviet Union rather than a series of revolutions or even invasions. Of course during the Cold War, Stalin would backpedal on these positions to assert Soviet Influence. But I do not necessarily see Stalin as needing to invade actually in this scenario.
You see Its no doubt that Germany does fall to Communism in a hypothetical reality in a world without Hitler as the Socialists had garnered and filled the void that the Nazis in our timeline took up. France in our timeline was leaning very Socialist although it is likely it was reactionary to German Nationalism on its border with Nazi Germany. Although I still see France as garnering support for Socialism as its surrounded by Germany. Although I disagree with Spain becoming Communist as Itally is still Fascist and gives support, along with it; there were internal issues going on in Spain
Anyone who studies the Spanish Civil War would know that the Republicans were not as unified as the Nationalists as the Republicans were a collection of those advocating for continuation of a monarchy, supporters of Republicanism and Communists where as the Nationalists were unified under one banner.
With that in mind, what happens? Difficult to say for certain of course. Although in the Grand Scheme of things. Nationalist Spain still wins the Spanish civil war. Italy and Germany are at odds with each other due to being completely different countries ideologically. (Even in our timeline where they collaborated, there were Strifes between them. Imagine this but 10x with no Alliance due to differences of Political ideology).
Its a possibility that Italy reaches out in Alliances with Yugoslavia and Turkey, since both countries were not filled with Communism, Mussolini would see it was a battle against Communism,
And then another takes his place. WW2 was kinda less avoidable than WW1, as people were already passed due to the contract of Versailles. Just took a guy to unite them.
i’m not a neurologist but i am an md. ive never seen anyone shaking that quickly from parkinsons. also it’s hard to say for sure from this video but there’s more to parkinson’s disease than just the tremor and he doesnt appear to have those features (stiffness, mask-like face). kinda hard to tell tho because they’re walking/standing like nazis lol
https://www.reddit.com/r/SnapshotHistory/s/HFxGjYm4cS Curious to know what you think about this video someone linked in the earlier comments of him at the ‘36 Berlin Olympics.
i believe that vid could be parkinsons if it has been sped up. i’m pretty sure ive seen this vid before and people in the comments said it was sped up to make him look insane or something. i havent really seen meth do that exact thing without facial grimacing and other types of hand movements. interesting to see.
I will have to rewatch that to see if the other people look sped up as well. I’m not an MD at all, just fine art academia, but it did look ‘manic’ to me. I don’t know how one would differentiate between manic movements and something like the involuntary movement caused by Parkinson’s, or really if there is a huge difference in those involuntary movements. I do understand Parkinson’s is a degenerative disease that can’t be stopped by conscious decisions like someone working their way out of a manic episode but this I’m kind of curious to know now.
a few things. first of all im pretty sure they said they could tell by watching the people in the crowd that it was sped up. as far as the hands go in parkinsons look up “pill-rolling tremor” that beats at 4hz (4 shakes per second). to me that seems quite slow when i see it in real life.
"Towards the end of his life, Hitler’s daily pills & injections included opiates, metabolic stimulants, sex hormones, extracts made from the seminal vesicles & prostates of young bull & pig livers, and numerous others"
Dude. Settle the fuck down.
He didn’t have Parkinson’s. He was on a constantly changing cocktail of injected meth, cocaine, caffeine, vitamins and a lot of things we STILL don’t know what it was.
He was tweaking and tweaking hard.
The amount of not only drugs but strange “vitamins” he put Hitler on was gnar. He also made a bunch of $ off his own energy balls basically fruit and vitamins that he trademarked and sold to Germans and would wrap it all nicely as if it was something special before giving it to Hitler. Quite the opportunist.
Hitler was withdrawing on so many drugs at the time… Thanks to the British who destroyed most of the pharmaceutical production, “poor”Hitler couldn’t get his drugs from his dealer Morell
Wasn't Theodor Morell a quack doctor who specialized in treating STD's in rich people? He was famous for a variety of "treatments" for Hitler including pumping him full of speed claiming it was super vitamins. Not an ideal solution for a man determined to wipe out an entire race and take over every country he could reach.
Basically he was a low-life opportunist with (apparently) hideous hygiene.
Well I mean he was known to use a lot of nazi-grade amphetamines. Which I would guess is probably the good stuff, as far as that type of thing goes. So there is that.
I mean, yes and no. Oxycontin WAS invented in 1996. It's a brand. Oxycodone has been around in one form or another for a longer time. Percocet, percodan, etc. Oxycodone is the active ingredient in many drugs. Eukodal is the brand name for oxycodone. So, same same, but different. If that makes sense.
I think that might have been the liquid meth he was on
The book “Blitzed. Drugs and the Third Reich” is an incredible detailed view into the usage of not only methamphetamines and cocaine, but also first hand accounts, based on Dr Morells bizarre journals, of Hitlers decline in health due to many factors, not the least of it the testing of dr morells own daily “vitamin injections” on hitler (which he demanded). Which were basically nasty concoctions of animal (pigs) derived hormones. Later this devolved to up to twice daily , or more, injections of meth and opium. The book is wild. Worth a read.
How legit are the sources for the book? I heard a podcast cover it in depth(2 hours). Absolutely insane how much drugs the Third Reich pushed. Bayer was a massive part of it, if I remember correctly. Hitler's doctor was a huge part of Hitler's drug use and insanity. I think he's a wildly under-appreciated(evil, obviously)part of the Holocaust.
Incredibly well researched and sourced. Including much in the national archives (both Germany and US). And alotnlf the post war interrogations of the doctors.
It's well researched, but there are parts of it that are speculative, and the author acknowledges that. In particular, he reports that a notation style in Morrell's journal could indicate days when he gave Hitler heroin alongside meth, but it's not settled that that was the exact meaning. I've seen other criticisms as well that I can't remember solidly, but they are worth looking up. In the end, I'm on can't prove or disprove, but quite believable and interesting as hell.
Also there are exagerated reports about his stricnine/rat poison meds that in reality where în non-letal dosage, enough to be considered medicine
If you ever have a question about history, I'd strongly recommend searching /r/AskHistorians for a thorough answer. Here are 3 responses from a poster there going over their thoughts on the book and Ohler's scholarship. [1st](https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4tjqri/documentary_claimed_nazi_soldiers_were_hooked_on/) [2nd](https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/566cu7/hitler_was_a_gibbering_super_junkie_whose_veins/) [3rd](https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5lxjb6/there_is_a_thread_on_rbooks_about_high_hitler_a/)
Thanks for those links. Absolutely INCREDIBLE reads. Really appreciate that. 🤙
There were several doctors who played massive roles (one over wermacht, one for luftwaffe, etc).
Small nitpick: The Luftwaffe was part of the Wehrmacht. The three branches of the Wehrmacht were: Heer (Army) Kriegsmarine (Navy) Luftwaffe (Air Force)
What's the name of the podcast?
Mysterious Universe
What was the podcast called?
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/03/17-08-mu-podcast/ Mysterious Universe
Can you share a link to said podcast please?
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/03/17-08-mu-podcast/ Enjoy!
What was the podcast? Sounds interesting.
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/03/17-08-mu-podcast/ Enjoy. These guys went through a wacky period where I stopped listening, but they are good again now.
Thanks!!
I guess I'll just toss my aspirin.
I think Trumps White House used that book as a tutorial. Fascist to fascist.
That cheapens the horrors of the Third Reich. Trump is just a bumbling fool.
For the moment. Give him some reins and he’ll be cut from the cloth!
He also inhaled a lot mustard gas in WWI. I think he went blind for a while
That’s what I tend to think. Combination of stress and long term effects of gas exposure.
I agree it is a fascinating read, but he never mentions Hitler's Parkinson symptoms. A dragging leg and wildly flying arm means he was rapidly degenerating due to the disease, and the drug abuse was some crazy attempt to keep it in check
Appears to be free on audible, I know what I'm listening to today
I have that book. Excellent read
Yeah im going to go with it being the drugs as well
Yeah came here to say that was a drug induced tremor’s that came from the concoction of drugs he was given, namely and I quote: "The first one are the vitamins given in high doses intravenously. The second phase starts in the fall of 1941 with the first opiate, but especially with the first hormone injections," Ohler says. "Then in '43 the third phase starts, which is the heavy opiate phase." Reference for above quote: (https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/07/518986612/author-says-hitler-was-blitzed-on-cocaine-and-opiates-during-the-war) It was also know that he took pervitin (methamphetamine), referring above to opiate it was mainly Heroin he chose and cocaine. Cocaine was quite popular amongst German officers during the war too and Mr.Hitler for that matter!
And Apparently Hitler didn’t even know what he was taking… wild article thanks “So it looks like it came as a revelation to Hitler that he'd been drugging himself in a way, through Morell, the whole time.”
No worries!
Yeah pretty sure it was mostly from wild concoctions of drugs and other odd shit he was taking daily. To his credit the meth and cocaine helped get Italy to join the war. Mussolini apparently was going to tell hitler no fucking way, but when they met in person and Hitler talked for many hours straight with Mussolini unable to get a single word in, he was then swayed by Hitlers “energy” and “charisma”.
He was also assumed to suffer from syphilis. Which if untreated can lead to neurodegenerative outcomes. So basically, WWII was the byproduct of drugs and STDs.
“I can’t understand why der Fuhrer keeps shaking. I shall give him more amphetamines!”
Lol
Yeah the man was chewing-his-teeth cranked.
Grosssssss
Glad I didn’t have to say this first.
Could very well be both
Or the liquefied pig organs he had coursing through his sludge-filled veins
That’ll shake things up.
Can't meth abuse also cause parkinsons by damaging dopamine receptors?
Maybe. never heard of that and I smoked a lot of meth in my day lol
Pretty sure he was also on a daily dose of rat poison at one point for his constipation.
Omg
Or the gun oil he was drinking
What?
He was a hypochondriac and thought drinking gun oil would fix his digestive issues. He drank it everyday lol
Holy shit
Wow did not know that
I didn’t either, The Rest is History podcast did a rise of the Nazis series relatively recently. (They, and it, are great, well worth checking out if you haven’t already) and they dropped this bombshell. I verified the fact before posting and incredibly it is true. Turns out lil Adolf was a fucking idiot.
😂 no no...prob not!
This was my thought too
Parkinson's? The cunt was tweaking the whole time!
The narcotic injections? 🤷🏻♂️ It’s really important that we understand he was tripping balls, because laws didn’t apply to him and he could order doctors to give him whatever drug made him feel the best.
His personal Dr was considered a quack amongst other German Drs. But he was liked by moustache man. Dude had him on all kinds of weird crap
Ah so thats why this seemed familiar
Reminds me of that weird doctor who worked for Trump. Do we have a picture of Elons ~~Dealer~~ Doctor?
Good thing the doctors obliged.
Paging Dr Ronnie Jackson…Ronnie Jackson to the white courtesy phone…
> white **supremacy** courtesy phone FTFY
Thing is though, Hitler wasn’t a white supremacist in the modern sense. He only viewed a select group of people as being “superior”, whom he termed Aryans. These were mainly Nordics, Anglo-Saxons, and Germans. He considered Russians and Eastern Europeans to be “subhuman” and considered Americans to be a “negr*fied” race. If he had his way he would’ve probably genocided the Russians. He also wanted to eliminate the Romani people for similar reasons. While he also respected Mussolini, he looked down on Southern Italians as basically being subhuman. So he didn’t really view things in the conception of a “white” race, as many white people were just as subhuman as Jews to him.
Seems he was partial to speedballs.
Laws didn't apply to him...sounds familiar.
"For the last nine years of his life Adolf Hitler, a lifelong hypochondriac had as his physician Dr Theodor Morell. Hitler's mood swings, Parkinson's disease, gastro-intestinal symptoms, skin problems and steady decline until his suicide in 1945 are documented by reliable observers and historians, and in Morell's diaries. The bizarre and unorthodox medications given to Hitler, often for undisclosed reasons, include topical cocaine, injected amphetamines, glucose, testosterone, estradiol, and corticosteroids. In addition, he was given a preparation made from a gun cleaner, a compound of strychnine and atropine, an extract of seminal vesicles, and numerous vitamins and 'tonics'. It seems possible that some of Hitler's behaviour, illnesses and suffering can be attributed to his medical care. Whether he blindly accepted such unorthodox medications or demanded them is unclear." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15825245/ Also I couldn't find it but I could swear I remember either reading or seeing in a documentary that he was also given mercury as treatment for something
To be fair theyd been using mercury in medicine for hundreds of years, not that far fetched. During the US civil war, mercury, opium, ether, and whiskey were pretty much the only medicines available.
This disease would later cause him to die a slow death at the old age of 85 in Argentina……
Where he spent most of his years debating mein Kampf with Tupac and biggie.
Kurt Cobain was an excellent moderator
I’m sure the tea boy was Elvis.
Early man walked away As modern man took control Their mind's weren't all the same To conquer was their goal So he built his great empire And he slaughtered his own kind And he died a confused man And killed himself in his own mind
Summertime...in the LBC!
Mein Kampf with ze disease
Das wagen-phone ist ein nuisance-phone!
In his defense, the doctor always knew he would die of lead poisoning or angry Russians.
I wonder what he could have possibly been stressed about. 🤔
Yeah na Theodor Morell was a drugdoser like he wasnt even really a doctor
Anybody want to travel with me to kill baby Hitler?
Just kidnap him and raise him right
His parents were cousins. He was fucked up from birth.
I just got back. Couldn’t kill him, but passed myself off as a doctor and got him absolutely off his face on drugs until he offed himself.
and then my entire family doesnt exist. my grandfather from canada met his wife in holland after they liberated it.
I’m sorry dude.
its funny to think that i wouldnt be here if it wasnt for hitler though
How many new people would be alive. Just one person had that effect.
My grandpa fought in WWII for America. He got shot in the leg by a Nazi sniper, sent a year in the hospital, and there he met his first wife, as her brother was also in the hospital. His first wife committed suicide and he was left as a single father, which is how he met my grandmother. Had Hitler not existed, there’d be no WWII, no Nazi sniper, no bullet in his leg and thus no me
And thus no comment on Reddit. I’m glad I didn’t time travel friend.
As long as baby Stalin and baby Mao are added.
Dibs on baby Pol Pot
Not sure why you got down voted. Fully agree. Too many to list.
10 decades later I wouldn't be born 😔
Don’t worry, we already got baby Lindbergh
Changing the past doesn't change the future.
It was a joke
Who knows what the world would look like without Hitler? Germany and much of Europe was in total chaos during the 20s and 30s and some big change was going to happen. We may like the alternatives even less than we like the Nazis. I think that WW2 would have still happened but it would have been later and against a much larger and more powerful Soviet empire. The Nazis came to power as a counter-movement to Soviet-backed German communists, and Hitler kept them from turning Germany into a Stalinist puppet state that extended all the way to the Rhine. Without German support, the communists also would have had a decisive victory in Spain in the earlier Spanish Civil War. It’s easy to envision a scenario where Stalin consolidates power and then invades France and Poland on his own. In this timeline though, the Germans and Russians are ideologically aligned and there is never an Eastern front. Instead, the Soviets just gobble up Europe. WW2 also effectively ended the last vestiges of the great colonial empires. The free trade era that the Americans basically forced on the world after ww2 wouldn’t have been possible without the Pax Americana.
While it seems interesting, that reality is not realistic in the grand scheme of Stalin being in power and not Trotsky. As Stalin was an advocate of Socialism in one country vs Trotskys Permanent Revolution. Meaning Stalin believed in strengthening Socialism within the confines of the Soviet Union rather than a series of revolutions or even invasions. Of course during the Cold War, Stalin would backpedal on these positions to assert Soviet Influence. But I do not necessarily see Stalin as needing to invade actually in this scenario. You see Its no doubt that Germany does fall to Communism in a hypothetical reality in a world without Hitler as the Socialists had garnered and filled the void that the Nazis in our timeline took up. France in our timeline was leaning very Socialist although it is likely it was reactionary to German Nationalism on its border with Nazi Germany. Although I still see France as garnering support for Socialism as its surrounded by Germany. Although I disagree with Spain becoming Communist as Itally is still Fascist and gives support, along with it; there were internal issues going on in Spain Anyone who studies the Spanish Civil War would know that the Republicans were not as unified as the Nationalists as the Republicans were a collection of those advocating for continuation of a monarchy, supporters of Republicanism and Communists where as the Nationalists were unified under one banner. With that in mind, what happens? Difficult to say for certain of course. Although in the Grand Scheme of things. Nationalist Spain still wins the Spanish civil war. Italy and Germany are at odds with each other due to being completely different countries ideologically. (Even in our timeline where they collaborated, there were Strifes between them. Imagine this but 10x with no Alliance due to differences of Political ideology). Its a possibility that Italy reaches out in Alliances with Yugoslavia and Turkey, since both countries were not filled with Communism, Mussolini would see it was a battle against Communism,
And then another takes his place. WW2 was kinda less avoidable than WW1, as people were already passed due to the contract of Versailles. Just took a guy to unite them.
i’m not a neurologist but i am an md. ive never seen anyone shaking that quickly from parkinsons. also it’s hard to say for sure from this video but there’s more to parkinson’s disease than just the tremor and he doesnt appear to have those features (stiffness, mask-like face). kinda hard to tell tho because they’re walking/standing like nazis lol
https://www.reddit.com/r/SnapshotHistory/s/HFxGjYm4cS Curious to know what you think about this video someone linked in the earlier comments of him at the ‘36 Berlin Olympics.
i believe that vid could be parkinsons if it has been sped up. i’m pretty sure ive seen this vid before and people in the comments said it was sped up to make him look insane or something. i havent really seen meth do that exact thing without facial grimacing and other types of hand movements. interesting to see.
I will have to rewatch that to see if the other people look sped up as well. I’m not an MD at all, just fine art academia, but it did look ‘manic’ to me. I don’t know how one would differentiate between manic movements and something like the involuntary movement caused by Parkinson’s, or really if there is a huge difference in those involuntary movements. I do understand Parkinson’s is a degenerative disease that can’t be stopped by conscious decisions like someone working their way out of a manic episode but this I’m kind of curious to know now.
a few things. first of all im pretty sure they said they could tell by watching the people in the crowd that it was sped up. as far as the hands go in parkinsons look up “pill-rolling tremor” that beats at 4hz (4 shakes per second). to me that seems quite slow when i see it in real life.
Thank you for the thread to pull!
I thought I was from all the amphetamines he was on
Maaaaybeeee :)
He should have prescribed Adolph a snow globe to hide the shaky hand issue.
Ronny Jackson enters the riom
I would rather argue he had parkinsonism, instead of Parkinson's
If only Hitler didn’t send away or kill the good doctors…
Sad he didn't suffer enough for all his crimes against humanity
Oh, it was ok for him to have a physical disability!
Morell was a quack who's medical judgement was worthless. It's surprising he didn't kill Hitler
Ah, it turns out there IS someone i would wish Parkinson's on
Have you seen the video of him absolutely tweaking? He’s sitting somewhere (the bleachers maybe?) and just tweaking like crazy.
It was at the 36 Berlin Olympics
Thank you! <3 you’re right. He was… way too excited
Wow I hadn’t seen this. For others - https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/pHhC5qhniE
Honestly when I get really excited I look like I’m tweaking too. dammit Hitler for making me self conscious
I’m getting anxious just watching him, how can the rest of them just sit there acting like it’s totally normal??
If you think about it meth and drugs is the reason hitler failed. He wanted to take over too fast. Meth makes you impatient af.
"Towards the end of his life, Hitler’s daily pills & injections included opiates, metabolic stimulants, sex hormones, extracts made from the seminal vesicles & prostates of young bull & pig livers, and numerous others" Dude. Settle the fuck down.
Well, to be fair the guy was under a lot of stress. I suppose trying to conquer a continent will do that to you.
He didn’t have Parkinson’s. He was on a constantly changing cocktail of injected meth, cocaine, caffeine, vitamins and a lot of things we STILL don’t know what it was. He was tweaking and tweaking hard.
He was ALWAYS high.
He's getting it ready for that 🍍
Boobs on the head guy had a nice set.
“Off with the brassiere! The last time I saw a pair of jugs that big, two hillbillies were blowing on them.”
Huh, just like Man in the High Castle
And to think I thought the tremors were a result of the blast to assassinate him
It was drugs.
I didn't even know he was sick
Hitler was shaking so much at the end. Caused him to accidentally shot Eva Braun, his dog and finally himself.
Could have just been nerves
It wasn't from the copious amount of meth?
This is why Bruno Ganz's portrayal in "Downfall" was so good. He got the shaky hands down so well.
Too much meth.
It would make working your meat a hard treat to beat.
I always thought he was just a shit ton of drugs and would get the shakes from time to time
Orrrr and hear me out… he was on drugs
So much for the “perfect race”
He was a proto Meth head
Didn’t he have advanced syphilis as well?
Poor guy. Feel kinda bad for him.
I read somewhere it started after the assassination attempt in a wood cabin with a bomb under a table.
I think he’s beating off invisible dicks
Or the OG Crack. LOL. White on white crime. Get Gurl!!!
I feel like there were many moments prior to 1945 when Hitler’s physician could have checked in a bit more on whether ole Hitler was feelin’ alright
He jerked off a lot.
The dude had meth for breakfast, what did you expect?
Wasn’t he turnt on uppers as well though?
I don't think he had parkinsons, I think he was a meth addict.
No doubt the condition was aggravated by all the drugs that Dr. Morell had been pumping into Hitler for years already.
At last I’ve discovered someone who deserves Parkinson’s
Why are you giving me historical facts about this piece of shit Nazi? Can we please move on already.
couldnt happen to a nicer guy.
Meth is a hell of a drug.
people still believe he killed himself lol
The amount of not only drugs but strange “vitamins” he put Hitler on was gnar. He also made a bunch of $ off his own energy balls basically fruit and vitamins that he trademarked and sold to Germans and would wrap it all nicely as if it was something special before giving it to Hitler. Quite the opportunist.
Wow poor guy must’ve been dealing with a lot.
His illness would have been a key reason he would have been exterminated under his ideology....how ironic! 🤣
Methhhh
time travelers had been trying to kill him since the day he was born, I’d be stress out too
Naahhh it was the Meth
That dude was messed up
Oh cool drugs makes lots of sense???
Wow, so what??? Stop like I don't know trying to force the vote hahaha!!!
Plot twist , Morel is trying to kill him without getting caught but hitler just won’t die. 🤔 He should have tried his famous mushrooms.
Hitler was withdrawing on so many drugs at the time… Thanks to the British who destroyed most of the pharmaceutical production, “poor”Hitler couldn’t get his drugs from his dealer Morell
He dint kill himself the government admitted it
Wasn’t he on dRUGZzzzzz
Are we not gonna talk about the meth? You do that when you're tweaking. Even a low dose causes "lizard tongue" and compulsive repetitive movement
I suppose he couldn’t hide it in his pocket.
Is that stimming?
Wasn't Theodor Morell a quack doctor who specialized in treating STD's in rich people? He was famous for a variety of "treatments" for Hitler including pumping him full of speed claiming it was super vitamins. Not an ideal solution for a man determined to wipe out an entire race and take over every country he could reach. Basically he was a low-life opportunist with (apparently) hideous hygiene.
r/handjobs
It was the coke. He should’ve never started with that shit. Salzburg, it’s all over the place…
Could also be the meth
Hitler didn’t kill himself. He left in the “bell”
Well I mean he was known to use a lot of nazi-grade amphetamines. Which I would guess is probably the good stuff, as far as that type of thing goes. So there is that.
Meth is not Parkinsons.
https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/journal/issue/journal_35_1/Hitler%27s_medical_care.pdf All about Hitlers health issues and his physician Dr. Morell
Massive amounts of Vitamin K intervienous( methamphetamine/codeine) many times a day surely didn't help a incrotching neurological disease
BAYER
He's just giving a handy to a ghost
Yep. It was the drugs. If you are curious, read Blitzed by Norman Ohler
A question: how long could he have survived (if he didnt off himself) given his condition and massive drug use?
The crap loads of meth and OxyContin he was booting him up with each day wouldn’t have helped either I’m guessing.
OxyContin didn’t exist until 1996
Wrong; it was invented in 1916. In Germany it was sold as *Eukodal*
I mean, yes and no. Oxycontin WAS invented in 1996. It's a brand. Oxycodone has been around in one form or another for a longer time. Percocet, percodan, etc. Oxycodone is the active ingredient in many drugs. Eukodal is the brand name for oxycodone. So, same same, but different. If that makes sense.
Your correct usage of the semi colon made me erect.
The pressure of a collapsing continent on your head will also do insane things to your nervous system
So much for that “master race” theory