Part Two: Hitler's Drug Problem

you are a writer. You work on the Ron Burgundy podcast with comedy person will you Comedy Famously Funny, Famously Funny Piggles, providing the giggles, the chuckles, the yucks um. And you also have a weekly podcast called True Romance that comes out over Thursday. Light of My Life, True Romance. Now, when we talk about true romance, what about the romance of a young German woman being ordered by her doctor to take math amphetamine so that she can produce more

soldiers to go die on the Eastern Front. What about the romance? Is that? Is that not the truest romance in a way, So that's not really what we were going for when we started our shows much more. You know, this is not a city references. Okay, stuff like that. So your podcast is not about fueling the aust fronts inexorable need for human cattle. You know, we talked about that and we're let's go in another direction. Actually it would be a bit late for that at this point.

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want to talk about Hitler's parts a little bit. Yes, yes, yes, Hitler had a horrible part problem and this this is ship problem. His enormous ships that couldn't be flushed. But he told the entire world about and everyone was just like, yeah, this is just a thing that's happening. God was so good fishes and ship that was so funny pants all the time. And if you look at close up allegedly, i mean allegedly, what is easier to believe than the fact that Trump ships his pants. I can't. I mean

the diaper, but the diaper bottom. Lots of rad people ship their pants and don't do the bad things that just like just like the pants, baby ship their pants, and most babies do not attempt to stop the immigration visas of interpreters um and and ban immigration from Majordan Nation. It would be very hard for a baby to do

either of those six. Even if you were to invest a baby with the powers of the presidency and change the constitution to allow a baby to serve, a baby would would have a very difficult time pushing either of those. Even signing its name would be a tremendous effort. It would be a whole thing. I kind of want to see a TV show where you've got like a baby and a bunch of fascists, and the babies the presidents. They have to like connive ways to get the baby

to like do something recognizable as a signature. They're just having to walk around and ink and stuff. That'd be a fun show, giving the I think this is the next installment of Boss Baby Boss Babies. He's the He's unknowingly the figure ahead of a fascist movement. Damnity opened the border. He crawled over the wrong paper. Yeah uh, boss baby. So let's talk about Hitler's farts. Um. This is an important subject because Hitler was one of the

most important people who ever lived, right. That's that I'm just kind of objectively. We don't have to think that's a pleasant fact for it to be real. Um. And as a result of the fact that he had a horrible, horrible gastro intestinal problem had an influence on the course of world history. UM. As we talked about last episode.

Dr Morrell prescribed hitler Muda floor for his g I issues, but he also gave him medication for his out of control flatulence, which often led to unbearable gas pain in some cases embarrassing farting during important meetings, sometimes with like for like. This was a whole thing for Hitler all the way up through his early career. Now, the specific medication that Dr Morrell picked was Dr Kester's anti gas pills. Hitler's flash lens does seem to have had at least

some psycho somatic element. He had particularly bad attacks of cramps and gas during times of stress, meetings with important foreign dignitaries or the eve of major assaults. So as Hitler went from political brinksmanship to invading all of Europe, his gas attacks grew more frequent and severe, and he had to take more anti gas pills. Today there are medications that help with gas, but Dr Kester's pills where

distinctively quack remedy. Most reputable doctors would not have prescribed them because their active ingredient was atropa bella donna, which included atropine and strict nine. So to stop as far as he was taking strict nine pills every day, yeah, it's softer way, Yeah, And there there's debate over there's debate over whether or not it would have been possible for him to take enough of a dose to have hurt, because like the recommended dose of the pills, it was

too little Strict nine to have really done anything. But he was also taking way more than the recommended dose. I don't know that we have a We also don't have a clear understanding of like how good was that company's the sketchy company's control process, how much? How do we know that he was actually only getting this much or whatever we did. These are questions that will never be answered, but we do know that he was taking a shipload of Strict nine pills for years, and that

that may have had an impact. Yes, Strict nine is a poison. It's a deadly poison in high enough doses, and it can cause severe discomfort and like a variety of negative effects. It can also be kind of a sedative and lower doses, although I wouldn't recommend it because it's Strict nine. Um. But yeah, again, it's impossible to like say exactly oh at this moment. The fact that

Hitler was taking strychnine all the time led to this decision. Um, But it is hard to imagine someone taking strict nine and increasing quantities every day for years without they're big, some kind of impact on him. Something, in the words of Nancy Meyers, something's got to give. Okay, it didn't help it. And again, there is a lot of stuff being shoved into Hitler's body by Morrel, these Strict nine pills, these weird hormones, these injections, drugs, you know, amphetamines, and

we'll talk about the other drugs later. We don't know exactly what did what, but one thing everyone does agree on, and this is universally agreed among scholars and physicians who have reviewed Hitler's records is that his health declined rapidly after and it all played a role in that, right, I'm not it's probably too much to pick one thing. That stress is also like he's losing a war for most of that time, so that as an impact too, but I think probably just after you like, it can't

feel boy, it doesn't feel great. No. Um. Now, it is widely agreed that all of Hitler's like as I said, so again we can't say, like how much of this is on the drugs, how much of this is on aging and stress. But as the war kicked off, Dr Morrell grew a lot more comfortable using Hitler as a guinea pig. And you have to assume that has and

we'll talk specifically about that a bit. So in honest of Hitler's operation, Barbarossa was well underway, conquering more and more land more quickly, in capturing more enemy soldiers than any other invasion force in history. The RMCHT had begun to find find itself bogged down, though casualties were mounting, and as the winter approached, the Red Army prepared its first of many counterattacks. At this moment, Hitler got sick for the first time in years. He was too ill

to properly work. Dr Morel was summoned to the German leader's side. He found Hitler bedridden and suffering from diarrhea and fever. The probable diagnosis with diagnosis was was dysenterry. Hitler ordered his doctor to fix him immediately, and again Morell's main selling point is like, you feel better right away, you know, because I'm shooting you full of caffeine or maybe meth or whatever. You will help, you will. Yeah, well that is the bit of a problem. But like

so dysenterry. I've had dysenter I've had dysentery that nearly killed me in a village in the desert and rural India. Um, there's no quick cure for dysenterry like yours, that is to take something like cipro and just kind of like not die. Yeah, but you're not. You're not getting better fast, you know, I don't even think today we really can

not not once it gets going. Maybe if you're super rich and you get immediately to I don't know, maybe there's something like yeah, it's not immediately available, And especially at this point, there's nothing morel can do for Hitler really, um So he tries, though, um so, because his first shot was like vitamins, He's basically give him a shitload of vitamin C and other vitamins to try to like

perk of his immune system. And obviously this doesn't do anything, and so Morrell decided next to mix his normal vitamin shot with a steroid glycan noorm which he made with extracts of the heart, adrenal glands, liver, and pancreas of farm animals. Yeah, he's shooting Hitler up with a lot of random animal hormones, Like there's a whole for for years. It's pretty cool. I have like the ambition of Dr

Frankenstein a little bit. Yeah, there's some again. Hormones are also kind of new in terms of like our understanding of them, like vitamins, So people are just like, yeah, just filled people up with hormones seems like a good idea. It's fun stuff. So while he was juicing Dear Fear up, Morrel bent his needle in Hitler's arm, and to deal with the pain of that, he gave his boss to Lantern an opioid. Despite all of this, Hitler was still sick and now enraged that his personal physician had failed.

Morrell wrote in his notes, fear very irritable. Have never experienced such hostility to myself. He might not be such a cool guy. Well, and again, Hitler loves Merril up to this point because Morrell stru his drug dealer. Whether the shots just caffeine or if there's amphetamine or like or hormones which are powerfully mentally active, he's he's he's doctor feel good. Yeah, yeah, he's doctor feel good and he and it always works because drugs do work. That

is the fun thing about drugs. If you take a drug, you may have to take more and more, but you will continue to get high. It's kind of a thing. The drugs do um. Whereas everyone else in Hitler's world at some point fails, generally repeatedly fails, and so he has all these rages at people who don't do good enough for him. But Morrel always comes in and makes him feel good. And when he doesn't, it's you know, most people don't like their drug dealers at the best

of times. I don't know. Maybe it's different now for you kids and your your pot shops and stuff. But my day, if you wanted to buy drugs, you had to hang out with a dude you probably wouldn't have hung out with if you were not buying drugs from them. Um, not all. I definitely had some coolst drug dealers too, But like, yeah, videos, Yeah, you're gonna sit around talking about Alex Jones with a guy before he sells you a vagaweed and some opium. Um, and that's not going

to be the funnest experience of your entire life. Um. Sorry to my cool drug dealers that I had. Yeah, any of my old drug dealers are listening, it's not you, It's it's the game. You know, it's the game. And it's the fact that you made me listen to Alex Jones a bunch while you were measuring out. Anyway, whatever, um, cute guy I saw in my drug dealer's house and two thousand and nine I thought we shared a moment.

If you're out there, maybe this is too late for a misconnection on Craig's List, but thinking of you, I did date a couple of my drug dealers, and I do recommend that Yeah, okay, you get cheap drugs, Yeah, yeah, sometimes you get very expensive drugs depending on how you measure expense, Yeah, like an emotional level. They can be very very pricey, most expensive weed you ever buy sometimes, But anyway, money, I don't want to spend that much time with um. People will laugh at anything. I don't

know drugs anyway. So Morrell, Hitler's drug dealer has just like you know, failed to come up with the ship for the first time. And Hitler doesn't want to hang around and listen to Alex Jones if he's not going to get a dime bag, you know, um, And Morrell's like, don't text amount signal bro, you gotta hit me up on signal um. So eventually Hitler did recover from the dysentery, but the fact that his normally instant injections had not

provided quick relief rattle Dr Morrell. His ability to get and stay rich was directly tied to Hitler's favor, and hitler issue may not, as you may be surprised to learn, kind of a fickle dude, kind of kind of easy to fall out of Hitler's favor see The Night of Long Knives and so, as Norman Older writes and blitzed quote so that patient Aid didn't end up in the sick bay again and fall behind. Morrel administered a harder course of prophylactic injections and went on to prescribe more

and more remedies and every change in concentrations. He barely made any diagnoses, but instead constantly added to his basic

medicinal treatment. This soon included such diverse substances as Tono foss fan, a metabolic stimulant made by the company Hetched, chiefly used nowadays in veterinary medicine, the hormone rich and immune system boosting bodybuilding supplement most serin, a byproduct of uterine blood, the sexual hormone testo vin to combat declining libido in vitality, and orchacrin, a derivative of bulls testicles, which is supposed to be a cure for depression. Another

substance has happened to be our sponsors. Yeah, we are heavily sponsored by orchacrin. You're feeling sad, don't go to therapy. Get a bulls testicles injected into your blood stream, and I've got some stuff from my uterine blood for anyone who's interested. There you go, that'll be a cure for you. What was that a cure? Um? Libido and virility. There you go. Oh wait, no, sorry, that was a bodybuilding it'll it'll get get your buff. Yeah, well it's been

working to help me pump iron. That's it is iron rich um, which is why people, ladies often need to take iron pills um. So. Another substance used was called prostacrinum um, which was made by from seminal vesticles and the prostates of young bull ales. Even though he didn't eat meat, Hitler surely could no longer be considered vegetarian. From autumn ninety one onward, more and more highly concentrated

animal substances began to circulate in his blood stream. The purpose of these supplements was to compensate for states of psychological and physical exhaustion, or to prevent them in advance by reinforcing the body's defenses. However, as a result of the constantly changing applications and the rising doses that followed, Hitler's natural immune system was soon replaced by an artificial

protective shield. I don't know how scientifically accurate that last bit is, but he's definitely on point about like what Hitler was taking. And my god, it's again we don't know, like what exact impact. But it can't have. It has to have influenced. He's getting so much ship shot into

his bloodstream, ridiculous stuff. Two different kinds of bull testicle shot into his blood, different kinds of animals, like a lot of animals shot into him, a lot of animal hormones like it's of course this has an influence on the guys thinking like it would not yeah, to think we've just outed him as not vegetarian. It feels like now he could really get canceled, like these little cancel

culture finally comes for Hitler. We really just need to get them this information and see how they really feel. There's some guy with four eight eight tattooed on his forehead hearing this and just starts weeping, sadly tears down his Hitler poster. I'll never believe in anything again. So one of the shortcomings of Blitz, and I don't even know if this would have been possible, but it is.

It is a missing thing is that Older doesn't give us a lot of scientific information about how all these weird animal derivative substances would have impacted Hitler's body and mind. And in fairness, there's probably not a lot of great data on this stuff, because no one else would have used it, or at least would have used it to the extent that Morel did. So the guinea pig anymore, Yeah, Hitler was the guinea pig. So it's like it is,

this is a missing aspect of the book. I don't know that it's fair to critique Older for it, because like, yeah, I don't know how many other people got this much bowl testicle ejected into their bodies, like or this much like uterine blood extract. Friend you have, has he invaded Russia recently, he's thinking about he's thinking of that. Well, he says, it's just the bull testical talking. Well, we get one more person and then then we have a

trend which we can Yeah. Yeah, Hitler loved all this stuff though, like again, whatever we could say about the absolute effects and we just don't have a lot of data, Hitler seemed to feel like it had a big impact on him. He was mentally dependent on this stuff, So again, some of it's probably purely psychosomatic, right, Like, he has a couple of good experiences early on with Morrel and he becomes kind of it's almost like a good luck charm before big meeting, I need to get shot up.

Maybe most of it's like the caffeine as opposed, but like, I don't know how much of it is is what. But he's profoundly mentally dependent on this stuff, to the point that you know, late in the war, when Hitler is when von Staffenberg tries to blow him up with the bomb. After that point, everyone who was close to Hitler gets thoroughly searched by the s S. The only person exempt was Dr Morrell in his medical back, which is that gives you an idea of like how important

this guy was to Hitler. Later that year, Hitler and Mussolini took a train ride together to the Eastern Front. It was a te boys trip, right, You want to be on that train, Hitler and Mussolini pounding shots, injecting bull testicles into their thick, weird necks. Yeah. I feel like in the early days, man, we would be like hanging out, you know, annex and ship all the time. Like, what's up, man, you evade Russian You don't have any fucking time for me, you know. It's it's it's like

that for them. So it's a twenty four hour trip, and obviously Hitler parts. Yeah, you do not want to be in that train. Um. Mussolini probably too right. You look at that guy's fucking face. That's a guy who's you don't want to be in a train with. Um. But also Hitler can't stand that long without getting shot up, right. He's again he's very dependent on whatever the funk Morrel

is putting into his veins. Um. And so periodically the s S would stop the train and set up anti aircraft defenses so that Dr Morrell could shoot Adolf Hitler up with veteran airy steroids in calcium. I can imagine Mussolin anything like the one time Muslin he was like I don't know, and I don't know about this guys amazing. It's like Kundalina yoga, Like it really sets me right. That is the story of Mussolini, because Mussolini is a lot always a much more stable man than Hitler ever was,

and a lot less of a true believer. Mussolini's a guy of flexible political idea. He really just kind of wants power. Um. And there's part of the Mussolini story is like kind of belatedly realizing like, oh shit, I should not have gotten involved this allying with Germany seemed like a good call at a certain point. I did not want all the trouble this is bringing my way. I did not want war with all of these other countries. Like why did I do this? And yeah, I'm sure

this train is. Hitler is getting shot up with veterinary steroids and farting musil and he's like, God, damn it, it's you know what this might be on me a little bit, like you're my only friend, Like I chose you. This is not an inspiring situation. I have a feeling I'm going to get hung upside down by my own people, beaten as like a pin YadA um text Winston Church and he's just like, hey, what's up. You know I've been missing you lately. I know there's been like a

lot of ship but maybe just talk. You want to talk? Do you want to have like a no, Hitler, I'm gonna talking to anybody. Shut up, Like stop it, go take more veterinary steroids, come on growing a tail. Yeah. So the exact nature of what Hitler took did change

every day. MORELL kept a rotating stable. Eventually more than a different hormone preparations mixed with steroids, nonsense medicine like anti gas bills, traditional medicines and drugs and like amphetamines and ship and we'll talk about other stuff that was in there later. Older alleges that there was a psychological importance behind the fact that Hitler's drug diet changed daily and Menty avoided feeling dependent on any specific drug but

was instead dependent on Dr Morrel's overall care. This is impossible to prove in like an objective way, but it it makes sense. It's a logical leap, but it's one that I don't think is an implausible one. It makes like if I were doping Hitler, I would have done the same thing, right, just knowing what I do about drugs, Like, yeah, you don't want I'm to get too dependent on any one thing. Also, it won't work as well if they

get too dependents. So like, okay, we'll do the opiates and then we'll take a couple of days and we'll give you some caffeine in the next day. We'll give you a little bit of like speed the next day, and then you know you kind of you cycle, right, Like that's the that's that's that's the best way to do this. If you're doing, and I think I think

Owlder's leap there is is a pretty intelligent one. Now, while the Fear was growing ever more dependent on a bizarre cocktail of steroids and hormone extractions, the ther Mocht itself dealt with the whole sweep of drug addiction. If you've never been a functional addict, by which I mean someone who relies on a specific drug is a performance enhancer to help them in a task. There's other things.

People call it a functional lack. In this stance, I'm saying, like, you're somebody who does a thing and you rely on a drug to help you do that thing. So like Lance Armstrong is yes, like Lance Armstrong, or like a certain podcaster who may or may not be talking right now. Let me give you an overview of how it works. First, you're introduced to a new drug that hits just right.

And my guy, it's like falling in love. When you discover a new substance that tickles your brain specifically in a perfect way, it's one of the best feelings in the world. The problem is, like new relationship energy, it does not last. Um. So, first thing you fall in love, you discovered all these situations in which this drug helps you and makes things better. It makes life easier. But gradually your body he gets used to it, it stops

hitting us hard. Sometimes the way that it changes works, right, Like I haven't smoked pot in the years. I used to for smoke pot every waking hour of every day, and I have not in years because at some point, probably as a result of the PTSD, it stopped. Like I smoked it to work. I worked. The whole early part of my career was built on it. Um. Again, It's been a long time, long, long, long time since I've smoked pot. But like when I did, it was it was necessary, and then at a certain point I

wasn't able to work on it. So like that, then that happens with a lot of different substance. It can happen with everything, which is why you shouldn't do anything every single day. Um, But that is kind of the way. No, you should do lots of stuff. No, I mean like people should do us in general. Yeah, like work, yes, absolutely, like like like do less is my advice, less work,

more drugs, but don't switch them up. You know, take acid one day, you know, then you take a little bit of oxy then maybe you get drunk the next night, then you smoke a bone the next day, and you kind of cycle through it like that, and then you're basically sober because you don't get addicted to anyone drug. Nothing touches you anymore. Perfectly medically sound advice right there from feels like you're winding up to an ad brick, which you should be speaking of doing a lot of drugs.

You know what drugs you should do, the ultimate high, the only real high capitalism, because baby spending money on products and services that's high. You never get over that ship and more absolutely, and there's no consequences whatsoever. No

one would ever claim that. For example, our addiction to consumption and endless growth is in a lot of ways very similar to how an opiate addiction works, where you require greater and greater doses to have the same effect, and eventually that can lead you to making miscalculations that kills you, or in the case of a society, making miscalculations about what is actually necessary that leads to the death of the entire planet. It's not like that at all.

Here's some ads. We're back. Oh, so we just talked about Hitler A bunch. We're gonna talk about Hitler some more, but let's talk about the ver mock. How do you feel about the r Moched Carolina A big r mocked stand. Um. Yeah, you know me and my family, that's not really like our story. But I'm curious on like how you feel. I mean, you know, I'm a I'm a German military

history nerd. I find it fascinating. And one of the problems when you're a German military history nerd is that half of German military history nerds are cool people who are interested for very good reasons because like all modern military tactics are based off of the ship that the German Imperial military and then the r Moched pioneered. Um, and then there's Nazis. That's the other half of people

that stuff. Yeah, it's like, um, when you see people collect World War Two memorabilia, Yes, it gets there's a real Yeah, there's there's a line there. It seems like you're only collecting one side. Yeah. But again and obviously I I study the remarking part of what I study about the Vermocht is the the outrageous amount of war crimes they committed that we're out of proportion to to really any other actor in that war. Um, you can

make some out. I mean on a per capita basis, certainly out of out because like the Red Army in the U. S. Army have plenty of atrocities they care out in World War Two, But on a in terms of a the amount of soldiers directly involved in crimes against humanity to the RMACHED stay well, not alone, because the Japanese Army exists but stands in pretty rarefied air, you know. Um, and a big part of rmoched culture

was taken a shipload of meth. So yeah, I just walked through a little bit about like what it's like to be kind of a functional user of a drug, right, Um, And if you are kind of using a drug to function, it will eventually stop hitting his hard and the best way to handle that is to take a break from it. Right. If you find yourself just for coffee, right, I want to guess most people listening to this are kind of a functional addict of coffee or at least of caffeine.

Most people in Americans, Yes, so do I If you find yourself being like Jesus, I actually I'm not feeling good. I'm taking way too much of this stuff, like I'm

it's not making me feel good. One of the best things you could do is take a few weeks off, you know, let your tolerance reset so you don't need as much UM, and then try to restart and get by it a lower dose with a kind of a more moderate use of You know, that's not easy, but it's it is the good idea to do if you, like, are concerned about your level of consumption of a substance.

So that's the way it works for everybody, and kind of with every substance, any substance that you would be using on a daily basis the only and that's a doable thing. It's not easy, but it's doable. Now. The problem is, if you're saying using methamphetamine to help you fight for days without sleeping in order to anchor Europe, you might find the process of adaptation of taking a couple of weeks off a lot more difficult because you're

in the middle of a war zone. You know, it's kind of a bad place to like deal with coming off of a substance UM. And this is the situation the Nazis eventually found themselves in um and I'm gonna quote from time here. The invasion of Poland in September n served as the first real military test of the drug in the field. Germany overran its eastern neighbor by October, with a hundred thousand Polish soldiers killed in the attack.

The invasion introduced a new form of industrialized warfare Blitzkrieg. This lightning war emphasized speed and surprise, catching the enemy off guard by the unprecedented quickness of the mechanized attack in advance. The weak link in the blitz Creek strategy was the soldiers, who were humans rather than of course, machines, and as such suffered from fatigue. They required regular rest in sleep, which of course slowed down the military progress.

That is where privitin came in. Part of the speed of the Blitzkreeg literally came from speed. As medical historian Peter Steinkamp put it, blitz Creek was guided by meth amphetamine. If not to say that blitz Creeg was founded on methamphetamine. Now meth being meth soldiers quickly began reporting side effects. There were heart attacks and other problems in the field. The consequences, though were not nearly severe enough to outweigh

the value meth provided, but Reich health fewer. Leo Conti did grow worried about the long term impact of such drug abuse upon the flower of german Man And he's like, all of our young men are taking meth all of the time. This might not be good for our He's also like, listen, they're doing a lot of other stuff too, But like, I don't want this to ruin their futures.

I don't want this to ruin yea. As they're as they're rounding up Jewish people and committing masters, like, well, I don't want this to hurt their ability to get a job something. Okay, Yeah. So and at this point in time, most of the atrocities the Nazis would commit had not yet been committed. Um, but they're getting it started. They do a lot in Poland. They do a lot of atrocities in Poland, and they're on meth for those atrocities.

Which is not to say that they're committing those atrocities because of meth, but meth does make it a lot easier to commit atrocities if you want, if you want to get a lot of people to commit atrocities, without sleeping for several days. Meta amphetaman is really your best bet, you know. Or brown round. We could do some brown round and record a podcast, Sophie, can we can? We can we commit? Please listen. It's not going to help you record a podcast, but it's gonna make it a

lot easier to record a podcast. Yeah, Sophie, I've got all the gunpowder. All we need is the cocaine. You're in l A. You can get it, okay, Well, alright, fine, yeah they do. Saw it on average street corner here. Yeah. So. Leo Kanti grows concerned about the long term impact of meth abuse on the health of German people. In late nineteen and nineteen early inteen forties, Germany prepared to invade France, he pushed for new regulations that insured prevented was only

available to citizens by prescription. So he makes it not over the counter anymore for citizens not against Soldiers are still getting issued this and of course the German people largely ignored this dictate. You could find a doctor who could get it to you. Factory workers, doctors, nurses, government beercrats, everybody was on it like coma. Yeah, I have got comma, give me my fucking meth. Uh. Timmler massively surged their production, expanding to make more than eight hundred and thirty three

thousand tablets per day. Most soldiers received pills. During the invasion of France, German servicemen to spense more than thirty five million meth pills. That's some that's a good amount of meth. That's like, that's like two and a half Walter White's worth of methamphetas you know. Um. It was also handed out in chocolate bars for pilots. Uh. And for tank drivers you had, Yeah, you had Fliger chocolade and Penzer Schokolade. So you had like tank chocolate and

fighter pilot chocolate. Um. And these were a little bit more mellow. You didn't want to as kind of like like hardcore a hit as you got with the pills if you were like piloting a vehicle. Um. Oh that makes sense. Cool cool, Yeah, I mean that's not that's you know my motto, Sophie, only take half as much meths if you're going to be pie letting an aircraft. Yeah, you do that often. It's good advice. It's good advice. Um. I like the idea of a pilot announcing himself to

all his passengers. I mean, like, and you guys, I have some chocolate for this trip. I got I gotta cho I got me a chocolate bar. Y'all pulled onto your hats. Yeah, it's gonna be rad um. So that said. So again, everyone was using it, but it's primary use. And the people taking the most meth where the infantry, the people marching. Most of the German military advanced on foot for all the like, for all of the the attention that blitz Creed gets. Most of their soldiers are

not in vehicles. Most of them don't even have horses. Most of them are fucking walking um, and there's a lot of walking to do, and so they take a funkload of meth to allow them to walk for days. And then after you've walked for two days straight, you might need to get into a gunfight, so you want to be alert, so you want to take a funkload of meth. Historian Shelby Stanton writes, quote, they dispensed it to the line. Troops of their army had to march

on foot day and night. It was more important for them to keep punching during the blitz creeg than to get a good night's sleep. The whole damn army was hopped up. It was one of the secrets of blitz Creek. When German tanks rolled around the magine O line and began the mass encirclement of the French army, a few key factors made their stunning victory possible. On an organizational level,

this was the concept of Alftrug's talk tak. This German military concept vested an extreme degree of personal autonomy and unit commanders. In other words, officers weren't expected to follow

orders and move them in into position. They were basically instead of being said, okay, I want you to do this, and I want you to move your men here and take this objective, then move here and take this, they were said, I need you to be in this location honor before this time, and kind of up to you to figure out like how to get your men there and whatnot. So you have as like a company commander,

wa you have a lot of of discretion. And for young tank officers like Erwin Rommel, this meant driving for days ahead of the German art They were competing with all the other units and so they weren't like they weren't being told be here this point. They were told like, basically,

go as far as you fucking can. Yeah, and they were, and they were trying to beat each other too, and they were They were advancing with a greater speed than any army had ever advanced, because number one, for the first time, these small units are kind of empowered to like, if you can go further, go further, don't wait for approval to advance again, just fucking do it if you

think you can make it. And also they're on a ship fload of meth amphetamine, and so it's this mix of macho pride right there, competing with each other to see who can go the furthest fastest um and also fucking meth um, which synergized together really well. If you've ever seen a bunch of real dudes hopped up on math, dudes hopped up on meth, like, that's the r macht um. And they advanced further and faster than any army ever had in the history of warfare. And this attitude sees

the very mooch from the top down. General Hinz Guderian, leader of the invasion, told his tank drivers, I demand that you go sleepless for at least three nights if that should be necessary. And again, there's no way to do that functionally, that funkload of speed. You know you're not You're not going to be able to functionally operate armored vehicles for three straight nights in a row if you're not taking something right us soldiers, it was a fedron and uh and rip fuel and ship, but like

it was still something you need something. Um. There were, of course, consequences to all this rampant meth abuse from time Quote. Some users report negative side effects of the

drug during the French invasion. These included a lieutenant colonel with the Panzer Air SATs Division one who experienced heart pains after taking Prevented four times daily for as many weeks, the commander of the twelfth Tank Division who rushed to a military hospital due to the heart attack he suffered an hour after taking one pill, and several officers who suffered heart attacks will off duty after taking Prevented. A decent number of officers died from this stuff, Conti continued.

The right Health Officer continued to warn other high ranking Nazis that there was a serious danger to the Volkes health in early German newspapers quoted the BBC, who credited the blitz Creek success to meth pills. They'd captured Luftwaffe pilots over Berlin with preventing in their emergency bags. Stories spread from occupied France of German soldiers taking meth before visiting brothels and handing out love pills to the girls

later that year. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Nazis. I mean, Frances famous for its brothels, and Nazis are famous for their meth too. Great things that grow great together. It would suck to get roofied, and it would suck to get roofied with meth. Yeah, I don't know they're being ruthie because meth is incredibly popular at this point. It's a lot of them are probably just being like, hey, you want to take some meth with me and fuck? And that's I guess. If they're literally getting offered quote unquote

love pills, it's just um because they're not blacken out. Yeah, yeah, I mean they're being paid to. I don't know, it's it's it's a whole thing of all of the things that Nazis do that are immoral. Paying sex workers doesn't really hit yeah, um, that's it. I mean, obviously, I'm sure I don't know who knows how many times they like trick people into eating pans or chocolate that don't know that there's methane it right, because they want to

get the girl opted. I'm sure that happens. I'm sure some of them get dosed without consenting because their Nazis also they're men like they're they're young men in a like for anyway, it's it's just ship that you know, it's happen. It's common with every single military does versions of this throughout history. The Nazis are just the first

ones who have access to meth. By the summer of nineteen forty one, well the Virmacht prepared for Operation Barbarossa County succeeded in pushing an amendment to the opium Law that heavily restricted prevented from German citizens. The military was exempted from this. Of course, the Vermocht had to blitz another creek and they weren't going to do it sober. The use of prevented during the Russian invasion is not

well documented. This is because the records the Nazis kept up that period were largely lost or destroyed when the war went pear shaped for them. The Official Journal of German Military Physician to Publish Physicians published articles in nineteen nineteen forty three that included letters from medical officers reporting that they had been ordered to dose their soldiers with prebitin. The best information we have suggests that it was just as common as it had been in France. In fact,

military doctors found new uses for the drug. They mixed it with morphine, creating crude speedballs in order to increase the analgesic effect on wounded soldiers. You got shot, give them some methanopium, like, give him a speedball. Like I'm frat making jungle juice. It's like everything you have in your pockets into this pale. Most of the vermk stuff was transported on horseback, and the army found that giving horses meth allowed them to work a lot harder and faster,

so their method up the horses. Why am I annoyed by this so much? Like you said, they're doing like so much worse ship, But I'm like, you just leave the horses out of it. Why are you giving meth to the horses? Guy, guys, guys, Nazis. You guys are really really living up to the name right now, Yeah, I feel like you all might not have everyone's best

interests at heart. Um so yeah, now again, so they find a lot of new uses, and especially in the early days because the German the advances in early Barbarosa are just unprecedented, I think still unequaled in the history of warfare in terms of like the length of time, the number of there's there's single battles where they take six hundred thousand prisoners like in a day or like or so a fighting like they they've got they've encircled

and just captured, like the population of Portland, Oregon. Like it's this massive, massive And part of how it's possible is they don't have to sleep for days because they're on a funklet of mess. Now, if you've never taken stimulants for days in order to drive or otherwise travel long distances, I'll explain how it works. The first two or three days are great. If you're young and healthy. You can just take a nap after like forty seventy two hours and then go hard for like another forty

eight hours, and you're gonna suffer minimal consequences. I say minimal, but what I mean is that the damage you're do into your body and mind won't be immediately obvious, especially since listening to Alex Jones while pounding benz Adrien and driving through the desert can be a lot of fun when you're allegedly nineteen. Now after a few days less if you're older, the speed stops working as well. You may still be awake technically, but you won't be alert.

You'll be jittery, you'll start to hallucinate, you'll suffer heart palpitations. You may not want to eat, which will will of course make you crash even harder when the crash comes. If you've been driving a bunch of mushrooms across the Southwest, that's not such a big deal, because after you drive a couple of days, you could stop and crash for sixteen hours and your friends futon and you'll be fine.

German soldiers during Barbarossa didn't have a friend's futon to crash on, and they weren't finishing up after a couple of days. Again, they conquered Alex Jones, though they would have. They would have liked Alex Jones. I mean not early Alex Jones as much certainly today Alex Jones um so German soldiers. During Barbarosa. Again, they had conquered more territory more quickly than any army. At least tank units were covering hundreds of miles in a space of days. The

problem with Russia, though, is that it's very big. There's there's quite a lot of Russia, and the Russians just kept retreating in France a few days of friends of like they could they could go, let's let's none of us sleep for like five days and we'll drive the whole time, and we'll have conquered most of France and like you know, we'll be well on our way to winning this war. Um Russia didn't work that way because

there was so much of it left. So by the time they reached the point where it's like, well, we even on meth. We can't keep taking meth and not sleeping. We're all crashing, We're not functional, we're hallucinating. We have to stop and rest. Well, that point hit where they're still in the fucking middle of Russian surrounded by enemies who have not collapsed the way the French did, which

is a bad situation to be in. Right, meth turns out to maybe not be the best way to conquer Russia, um, whereas it apparently it is pretty good if you're if you're trying to conquer France. Historically meth could help. I wouldn't recommend it if you're trying to conquer Russia and a really bad hangover, as being in the middle of Russia, Yeah, attacked by Red Army partisan, Yeah, you do not want to be a coming down from three a three day meth bender under heavy fire. It's very much like it

looks to camera. I wonder, like you want to know how I ended up here? Bet you're wondering why I ended up here. And it's just a montage of somebody taking a bunch of meth pills driving a tank. Real fest like World War two. Yeah. Yeah, So after the first several weeks of Barbarosa, they had no time to recover,

and they hadn't won a victory. German soldiers at the wrong end of a meth bender found themselves exhausted, sick, and surrounded by an enemy just waiting to counteract a bunch of racked ass infantry whose eyesight was probably eight percent hallucinations. Norman Older quotes one German military doctor at the time who wrote, I didn't take preventing myself, or at least not often, just wants to try it to know what I was prescribing. I can tell you it worked.

It kept you awake mercilessly. We knew it was addictive and that it had health side effects psychosis, nervous excitement, a loss of strength, and in Russia it was a war of attrition. Positional warfare in such circumstances, prevented was no use. It just exhausted you. You eventually had to catch up on the rest you'd missed. Sleep deprivation simply didn't bring any tactical advantages anymore. So they just reached the point where this is again something that people who

get addicted always learned. The ship that used to work don't work no more. That's how fucking meth works for the Nazis in Russia, goes great in Poland and France, and then suddenly the worm, you know, worms turned Now in late nineteen forty one, the Russians counterattacked, the Wehrmacht held, but they suffered severe casualties, and more importantly, the fact that the Red Army had failed to collapse and in fact been able to counter attack, punctured the myth of

German and vulnerability. Then came the Russian winter, which the Germans were not prepared for. I'm not going to read like Merry Christmas married Chris, those motherfucker's this is our lives. Yeah, yeah, I'm not going to relitigate the whole lost frontier, but you know the gist of the story. The Russians used their basically limited limitless manpower reserves to hurl attack after attack against the Germans, eventually breaking through their lines and

encircling several armies. It was only when the tide turned against Germany that prevented became useful again from blitzed. Often the only thing that helped was prevented. One of many examples, in the fishing village of the Zvod on the southern shore of Lake Limit between Moscow and Liningrad, the Germans were encircled, their lodgings set on fire, rations arriving only

sporadically from the ice cold air. One last tiny window of escape was open, and five d exhausted men loaded with heavy bags and machine guns over their shoulders began a fourteen hour night march through waist deep snow. Soon many men were, as the official Wehrmacht report has it, in a state of extreme exhaustion. The snowfall had stopped from around midnight and the sky was filled with stars.

Innervated soldiers wanted to lie down in the snow. In spite of energetic pep talks there power could not be revived. Such men were each given to permit and tablets after one. After half an hour, the firstman confirmed they felt better. If you're trying to retreat across Russia and need to be able to march after not sleeping through the snow in the dark. Math might help again. But by that point you know the war had gone against them. But

you know what never goes against you. I'm trying to think what you're coming up with here, because it can't be capitalism. It's it's the products and services that support this podcast. Always. They always have your back, always, always, allegedly allegedly allegedly. All right, here's the ads. We're back. All right, so we had some fun with the very mocked Um. I want to I'll tell one last story about this is about the German navy so very late in the war, like I think the German you know,

their navy is not doing great. Nothing's really doing great for the Germans, and they decide their best idea is to create these suicide boats. They're basically torpedoes piloted by a man that he can suicide bomb a worship with um. And the idea was you would just seal a man in there and he would just like go for days until he found something to hit. And the best way to do that was they gave him speedballs, like this mix of meth amphetamine and opium on like basically methan oxy.

He was just like taking methan oxy trapped inside a metal coffin underwater, like trying to find something to blow himself up into. Yeah, it's pretty good. So as the war in Russia bogged down and turned into a nightmare, Hitler's physical health began to degrade rapidly. This may have

had something to do with his living conditions. For most of the war, Hitler cloistered himself away in a dank, mosquito filled complex in eastern Prussia known as the Wolf Slayer, and basically everyone who isn't Hitler fucking hates it here Um like it's a it's a miserable place. Um, it's cramped, it's it's basically these like tomb like bunkers because so they can't get bombed. They're like windowless. The area around it is like filled with mosquitoes. You're in the middle

of nowhere. Um. It's just like everyone but Hitler pretty much hates it. Hitler, though, has grown increasingly paranoid in irrational, and so he likes the isolation. He likes being surrounded by these like thick walls of concrete and like um and this really worries the people close to him. During this time, Joseph Gebbels wrote tragic that the fur is closing himself off from life like this and leading such a disproportionately unhealthy existence. He no longer gets any fresh air.

He doesn't take any kind of relaxation. He just sits in his bunker the same music. It doesn't even like, the same must hung out man wanted to watch. One of the few people who had constant access to the few was Theodore Morrell. Through the war, he would inject more than eighty dif and substances mixed together and dozens

of different concoctions. Again, it's impossible to say how much of Hitler's growing irrationality was due to the wild mix of hormones and drugs Morrell pumped into him, but Hitler's general's noticed a difference in his behavior. In mid nineteen forty two, Field Marshal Eric von Manstein tried to convince Hitler to alter his plans in the Southeastern Front, where the dictator had diverted crucial forces from the main battlefield.

As the Russians threatened to break through, critical decisions needed to be made, and Hitler was the guy to make them because he made himself commander in chief of the military. Manstein wrote quote as before no full decisions are being made. It is as if the fewer is not capable of it. Norman Ohler suspects that Hitler's issue here stemmed apart from

the wild change in his life the war brought. Prior to the invasions, Hitler addressed his people constantly he was in some ways a drug for the German people because being in a crowd like that, being hyped up. Look at the Trump rallies, right, it is a drug going to that. Having that kind of experience with the people who do it, they get addicted to it, and the person the demagogue gets addicted to it. Hitler was very much addicted to the adulation of crowds. It affects your

brain in a way that's is psychochemically powerful. But when the word and the bombing started, Hitler had to stop putting himself in front of his people, and so he suddenly loses access to this thing that he's really psychologically addicted to. From blitzed, Hitler now missed those ecstasies that his appearances had previously prompted, and which had always amounted to a new injection of the pepped up feeling that

was so important to his self esteem. In his isolation, all pleasure and energy previously received from the attention of a cheering crowd had to be replaced by chemicals, further cocooning the dictator. He was the person who eventually needed artificial charging. In a sense Morel's drugs and medicines replaced the old stimulus of mass ovations. The sounds like one like a child actor doesn't become an actor, and then it's yeah, yeah, Hitler. Hitler's having what we might call

them a coldie Culkin effect. There's a lot of similarities between them. I'm joking, I'm being mean to McCauley Culkin, who gave my friend a lap dance once. Um yeah, on his birthday. It was very nice. Um yeah, I've actually he seems to be a very nice guy. Very little in common with Hitler other than that they were both child stars, you know. And in fact, Hitler's original version of Home Alone, some would say is even superior,

but heavily debated um. In late nineteen forty two, the Russians broke through around Stalingrad, encircling the German sixth Army. Hitler refused to allow them to break out and retreat, as that would mean ending the siege of the city. Um. He basically was like, if you guys really were not really like me, you'll you'll, you'll find a way to win somehow. Gering promised him that the Luftwaffe could would be able to keep hundreds of thousands of been supplied

by the air which was a ridiculous promise. The US does manage something like this in Berlin after the war, the Berlin Airlift were like, there's this kind of conflict with USSR and so like the chunk of Berlin we have is kind of cut off. We can't refuel it by car and they have to like drop in supplies. Um. But it's just with with kind of the planes that the Leftwaffe has UM, with the technology they have, there's

just no way to do it. Um. But Hitler believed Garing um and wound up learning that Garing was just a piece of ship and the liar um which surprise they all were UM. So by December nine that had become clear that Gering had no ability to keep the sixth Army supplied. Hitler was very angry at this um and Morrell noted that day that has suffered his patient suffered from intestinal gases, halitosis, and discomfort by the ne The war was decidedly not fun anymore, and the bad

news increasingly outnumbered the good. Hitler asked his physician if he might try a new medication, cardia is all, which Garring had advised him to try for anxiety, since Hitler had heart problems. Morrell thought this was a bad idea. It was a blood thinner, I think, but older rights he understood this as a call to action Hitler, and

he did something stronger to call him his nerves. The eventual drug he picked was an opiate called Yuka do All, which is basically oxy right like you all is kind of the same thing as oxy, close enough for government work. He first dozed Hitler with it on July eighteenth. Germany had just sent the best of its elite troops and tank forces into a massive battle with the Russians at a place called Kursk. The battle ended with Russian victory

and over a million estimated casualties. It marked the last significant defense of the Germans would make in the East. Like, yeah, a single battle, um where there are more casualties than in the US Civil War, Like curse is a nightmare. And it's like, yeah, eight hundred thousand Russian, two hundred thousand or so German and this is the last. This is kind of like when the German armies stops being capable of offensives in the East, is cursed. So obviously

not a good day for Hitler. He's kind of bummed out about this, right, His favorite toy is broken. He's gonna have to shoot himself in a bunker. You know, we've all been there in our own ways. I wonder what Gerbel's diary, and it was that day. Hitler sad. Yeah, Hitler really right now, Yeah, he's oh, he has so bombed out. He's kind of bringing us all down just because he got a million men killed for nothing, well,

killed and wounded. Hitler was devastated by the defeat, and his normal mix of hormones, steroid speed and vitamins was not enough. From blitzed. Hitler saw all his hopes going up in smoke, and because of the imminent betrayal of the Italian army, we were about to surrender. He had not slept a wink. As Morrell wrote, body tensed hard as a board full of gases, very pale appearance, extremely nervous tomorrow, very important discussion with I Duce that's Mussolini.

In the middle of the night, Morrell was dragged from his bed by heinz Ling Hitler's valet. The Fewer was bent double with pain and an immediate cure was required. The white cheese he had had for dinner, as well as the roulade with spinach and peas, had disagreed with him. Morrell gave him an injection, but the basic medical treatment didn't work. The doctor wondered feverishly what needed to be done to combat the great attack in this precarious situation.

He knew it's something that worked, something that would numb Hitler severe pain and keep him functioning. He needed an ace up his sleeve, and in fact he did have something, but its use was risky. For the second quarter of nineteen forty three. In the bottom right corner of the file card Patient A A Substances listed an underline several times, you could all this is the point at which he starts giving Hitler oxy. Hitler gets. Hitler gets like, you know,

small town America addicted at this point. Um, And as you might guess from what happened to small town America when oxy went rampant, it does not have a positive impact on Hitler. It's not really good for anyone. Avoid being addicted to oxy content would be my advice if you're considering it. If you're on the line right now being like, should I get addicted to oxy? No? We say, we have a small opinion, but ours is now is no. No as well, no oxy? Yeah, stick with meth healthy

meth amphetamine. Okay, So you could all had a massive and immediate positive impact on Hitler. His mood improved, He grew up to miss stick elated even, and he became much easier to work with. People around him were like, Wow, Hitler is a lot more pleasant when he's doped up. I mean, I mean, if I had to hang out with Hitler every day, you would want him to be high, right. You don't want to deal with sober Hitler or Hitler

coming down like Jesus. Anything to the literally, give him any of yeah, shoot him with grab some from a pig, put it in him. Let's try it. Yeah, what other animals we got? Find a monkey, see if monkey stuff works in him. Um So, Morrell kept injecting the leader. Sometimes he would mix stimulants earlier in the day with opiates later in the day to calm him down. And from this point forward, Hitler was more or less constantly on something generally you could all every other day and

particularly during key moments of decision. In his last meeting with Mussolini, a U S. Secret Service report noted that Hitler spoke for three hours without a break. Um so, Ohler writes quote. Mussolini had actually planned to convince Hitler that it would be better for everyone if Italy came out of the war, but all he did was need his painful back from time to time dab his forehead with a handkerchief or side deeply. The door kept opening to pass on new reports about the bombing of Rome,

which was happening at that very moment. Mussolini couldn't even comment on this because Hitler was talking NonStop to a room full of painfully embarrassed people about how no one should doubt the imminent victory of the access powers. The dejected duche was effectively talked into the ground by the artificially pept up Fewer the result of the meeting Italy would stick at it for the time being. Morrell felt vindicated.

He seemed to have maneuvered at high level politics with his injections, and he noted self importantly fewer fitting well, no complaints whatsoever. On the return flight, fearer declared in the ober Salzburg in the evening that the success of the day was to my credit. So Hitler's just fucking racked and spun and talks for three out, won't even let Mussolini say anything, and essentially like Mussolini's too like awfully awkward yeah to just to try to pull out

of the war at this juncture. So that's cool, fun stuff. I mean, we've all hung out with the guy who was that kind of high at a party, right, Yeah, and we've always we've all stayed in a world war at one point benefit and we're like, I just didn't know what to say. Yeah, I wanted to pull my forces out of the war before the Allies invaded. But like it's the tale as oldest time party. You're like, I don't want you to see me leave. You feel

like I left too early. Hard to irish goodbye from a war exactly exactly good ship um so well, he was shooting a constant stream of narcotics and animal extracts into the veins of the mightiest warlord in history. Theodore Morrell was also running an increasingly elaborate side hustle. Hitler needed him so constantly that he could not run his own private practice, but his connection to the leader allowed

him to steal a shipload of stuff. He was given one of the largest cooking oil manufacturers in Czechoslovakia, which had been stolen from its Jewish owners. He used the factory to produce an anti louse powder of his own invention, which did not work, but was mandatory for the Wehrmacht because again dudes connected his big setter sell. His big seller was Vita molten bars. These were an edible version of the vitamin shots he distributed so freely. Morrel also

increasingly experimented with hormones derived from animal organs. When Ukraine was conquered by the Nazis, he used his connections to take possession of several slaughterhouses worth of fresh animal organs and diverted scant Vermocht resources to ferrying these organs to his factories so they could be turned into experimental hormone medications. Now by three, the Reich Health Office had instituted a

ban on introducing new medicine into the German market. This threatened Morrell's business, but he found a way to get around it. Since Hitler was at this point deeply reliant on the doctor, Morrell was allowed to experiment on Hitler with different extractions and injections. He argued successfully that if his drugs were safe for Hitler, they must be safe for the German people. Morrell wrote this to the right

health office. The fewer has authorized me to do the following if I bring out in TESTI remedy and then apply it in the fewer's headquarters and apply it successfully, then it can be applied elsewhere in Germany and no longer needs authorization. It's a good add slogan. M Yeah, if it's good for the fear, why can't you date it? Yeah? Yeah. Um. As the war turned, other Nazis dealt with more anxiety over their imminent doom, Morrell began handing out his medications

to the people closest to Hitler, including Ava Brown. She noticed the impact Merrell's drugs had on her partner's mood, and she wanted the same stuff. And Older suggests this is because like she wanted to she wanted to function, want to be intimate with her with her romantic partner, and he was racked as hell all the time. She was like, well, if we're going to be intimate, I need to be on whatever he's on, right, Like, we need to be on the same thing, otherwise it's going

to be impossible to connect, which I guess is understandable. Um, and yeah, not ecstasy. It's like, yeah, it's it's it's well, we'll talk about what it is. So Hitler was injected with testosterone for his libido, and Brown was given medication to suppress her menstruation. They were both given regular injected speedballs mixes of uppers and downers by Morrel so that they would be in the same headspace and stuff just

given the best chance of being able to bone. Now, from his first you Could All injection in nineteen forty three to the end of nineteen forty four, Morrel it noted administering you Could All at least twenty four times. Older suggests the real number was much higher. And just as with his meth, Morrell didn't always write out what he was giving the fury. Sometimes, just like an injection that included some of that, you know, you wouldn't know

exactly what was in it. It would be fair to critique Older for speculation here, But when you take in the sheer quantity of injections Morrell gave Hitler, and the variety of substances that flowed through his brain, and the reports of people around him, I don't think he's unreasonable and suggesting Hitler was taking and and you know there's other evidence to the just he was taking a lot of uk at all um So he makes his case, in part by noting reports from those close to Hitler

about the severity of his mood swings on critical days, and this is probably most notable with D Day, which is obviously pretty important day for a Hitler quote. Hitler's mood on D Day, another nail in the coffin for the Nazi state, was subject to severe fluctuations. At nine in the morning, he is said to have bellowed across the breakfast room. Is this the invasion or isn't it?

When Morrell hurried over and gave him an injection of X, he calmed down, suddenly appeared affable and lighthearted, enjoyed the day and the fine weather, and clapped everyone he met jovially on the shoulder. At the mid day, it's D Day, It's d D Yeah. At the midday briefing, in spite of the looming military disaster, to everyone's astonishment, he revealed a beaming face, and at the lunch that followed siminola dumpling soup, mushrooms in a ring of rice, apt ful strudle,

he fell into one of his endless distracted monologues. This time it was about elephants, which were the strongest animals in existence and which, like him, abhorred meat. Next, Hitler described in detail the horrors of a slaughter house he visited an occupied Poland. Girls in rubber boots had weighted in blood up to their ankles. Meanwhile, Morel was preparing his next injection, made from the glands of slaughtered animals.

I can't believe that Hitler is literally like reciting from Jonathan Saffron Fower's eating animals, and like, at the same time, dude, you know how strong elephants are. They don't eat meant, they're just like me. I'm like an elephant. It is a great co rant or I guess, yeah, oxy and probably meth amphetamine. Like he's getting a bit of a bit of a bit of b um. Yeah, it's pretty funny. Um, it's pretty funny. And also that he's ranting about how horrible the meat industry is well being shot up with

animal hormones that had been Yeah, the product of that industry. Um, it's good stuff. It's good stuff. Of Course, Hitler had always suffered from bizarre mood swings and from delusions, but Ohler is right that people close fewer noted his mental degradation, and again I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that the constant doses of hormones and narcotics shot into a fifty something year old man sped up this process. Late in the war, a Nazi named Klaus von Staffenberg tried

to kill Hitler with a briefcase bomb. It didn't take, but it did blow out both of Hitler's ear drums. An ear, nose and throat specialist was brought in, Dr Irvin Geissing, and he was immediately horrified at the fewer's health. And from geising we get our really interesting descriptions of Hitler in this period of time. Quote. The face was pale, slightly swollen, and there were large bags under both bloodshot eyes. The eyes did not make the fascinating impressions so often

ascribed to them in the press. I was particularly struck by the wrinkles from either side of the nose to the outer corner of the mouth, and by the dry, slightly cracked lips. His hair was already clearly mixed with gray and rather unkimped. The face was well shaven, but with but with somewhat withered skin, which I attribute to fatigue.

The speech was a naturally loud and tended towards a shout and later became somewhat hoarse and aged, almost depleted, an exhausted man who had to make do with what was left of his strength. Hitler, it's like crying, yeah, listening to the cure. Yeah. Hitler was clearly an ill man, and when he met Morrell. When Dr Geesing met Morrell and started to learn what was being given to the leader, he was furious. And it's also from Geeszing that we get some of our best information on how the doctor

conducted himself during this time. So this is Geesing writing about Morrell giving Hitler his treatment. Quote. Morrell comes in distinctly, short of breath and panting. He shakes only Hitler's hand and asks asks agitatedly whether anything in particular happened during the night. Hitler says no, he slept well and even adjested the previous night's salad without any difficulty. Then, with the help of Ling, he takes off his coat, sits back in his armchair, and pulls up his left sleeve.

Morrell gives Hitler the injections. He pulls the needle out again and wipes the punk true site with a handkerchief. Then he leaves the room and goes into the office, holding in his right hand that you syringed and in the left empty am puels, one large and too small. He goes with the ham pules into syringe into the adjacent orderly's bathroom, rinses the syringe out himself, and destroys the empty ampules by throwing them in the toilet. Then he washes his hands, comes back into the office and

says goodbye to everyone present. That's Hitler Steeler right there, just heading out, just heading out, and also like flushing everything to make sure people can't like check it out, analyze it, see what's in it. You know. Some of that's probably because this is how he makes his money, you know, keeping like you know, he's running a business.

He's selling versions of this stuff. Some of it's probably because he doesn't want Hitler's other doctors to know what the funk Hitler's being given, like the fact that he's, yeah, the stuff that I've been doping up our leader, you know. Yeah. And the two doctors quickly came to hate each other. Obviously one of them, I mean there, we'll talk about it. They're both a little bit sketchy, but morrel is obviously much sketch year um. Dr Geesing, though was not straight

edge either. His preferred treatment for ear, nose and throat medical stuff was cocaine. And so after this point he administered coke to Hitler in the form of nose and throat dabs more than yuh, this is what you've been missing. You just needed a little bit of coke. That'll get your Hitler going. That'll Hitler. You're right on up, buddy, um. And so after this point he administered cocaine to Hitler more than fifty times over the next seventy five days.

He used an extremely strong ten percent solution and absolutely got the German leader high as fuck. In fact, Hitler was noted by his doctors having quote slight cocaine sniffed during this period. So he's got the drip, He's like, he's he's he's got the coke sniff going on. Yeah. He quickly took it for more than just ear problems, telling Geesing after one dose, my mind is freed again

and I feel very well. Then, adding please don't turn me into a cocaine addict, Geeseing assured him that realitics snorted cocaine can't be an addict if you're dropping it into your fucking eye. Bro, That's what I say. That's how that's so. It keeps you from being addicted. You just drop it into your fucking eye. You don't be snarting it like an addict. That's gross. Like you, guys, please don't if if you think this is a problem of I'm like being an asshole, just tell me. Yeah,

just be honest. If you think I'm out of do you think I'm out of control and you think I'm doing too much coke, my coke dealer? No, bro, You're good, You're beautiful bro um. Yeah. Now, Geeson was though a better doctor than Morrel, and he eventually grew unsettled by the fact that he was essentially now the coke dealer, if the absolute ruler of his country. He tried to cut off Hitler's supply, and this did not go over well. Hitler was like, I've got an important meeting. I can't

function because my ears hurt so bad. You have to give me a shipload of cocaine. Um, And he was like, no, I'm not going to give any more coke. Hitler said, quote no doctor continuous before this morning. I have a terrible robbing head that probably comes from the sniffing. Concerned for the future and the continued existence of Germany are consuming me more and more with each passing day. I need the coke, man. I'm just so worried about Germany doing because I love I'm doing coke for my love

of the fatherland. Like it's just about the fatherland, you know, classic coke had excuse um soe Geesing refused though, like said, like, no, I'm not going to give you any more fucking cocaine and petulant Hitler refused to show up to his military briefings that day and deal with the fact that his army was collapsing. You don't give me coke. I'm not going to make sure that I'm not gonna give the army orders like fucking Hitler. I'm not gonna put on

pants if I don't have coke. Yeah, so Geesing eventually was convinced to relent. I think the generals were like, dude, we can't give orders without him, Like we're not allowed to. You have to you have to do something, or you

have to give him his fucking coke. Um and so uh He relented and he gave Hitler's some cocaine to save the German Army, but he demanded that if he was going to give Hitler the coke he had to give Hitler had to allow him to give the fewer a full medical checkout check up, which Geeseing did and eventually came to suspect that the anti farting pills Morrell had prescribed Hitler were causing some of the Feurer's health problems.

He attempted to use this to force the physician out of Hitler's inner circle and perhaps even have him prosecuted. And there were a lot of folks close to Hitler who were worried about Morrell, who were like, this guy is doping the leader up. It's not good for Hitler, Like we gotta get this guy out of here, but Hitler likes him too much um And they kind of tried to back this effort to force Morrell out, but it just didn't work, as Hitler's first and best drug dealer,

Morrell was just dug in too tight. As the Red Army closed in at the end of nineteen forty four, Hitler and Morrell had both retreated into a bunker under Berlin. Hitler by this point was jaundiced, as his liver had started to fail and his Parkinson's was advanced enough that he shook constantly. Morrell had to cancel several injections because the fewer's veins had collapsed. Right, that's like advanced smack

addict stuff that like your veins aren't working anymore. It was reported that like when he when he would get an injection, it would crunch, like his veins were crunchy. He was a advanced addict um at this stage. Um so yeah. Still, though Morrell continued to shoot Hitler full of opium and hormones as often as possible, it is probable that these opiates contributed quite a lot to Hitler's

g I issues. They can cause constipation, and there was using so frequently that he had significant issues with this. Morrel's notes state that the German leader had regular painful wind as his body fell apart. His guards in the bunker wrote entries like this about Hitler's bodily functions. Quote from four to from four until six four evacuations, two of which were weaker and two very strong. At the second after the passage of an obstruction explosive water evacuation.

The third and fourth were very foul smelling, and particularly the four probably a decomposing agglomeration that had previously been left behind and had become a cause of gases in the formation of toxic substances, regularly improved condition and change of facial expression. He only card called me to impart the happy news of this effect, which is one of the undertold stories of the last Nazis around. Hitler is

the third, right collapsed. We're just like standing there, like listening to him ship his guts out, like recording how bad it smelled. Which is I love that for Nazis. Actually it's yeah, yeah, I love that for them. As the Red Army closed in, Morrell finally lost his ability to provide his boss with the drugs he by this point badly needed again. Like there just was no ability to get more of them, right, Germany's industrial base had fucking collapsed, um And when Morrell ran out of drugs,

he and Hitler had a falling out. Hitler suddenly like starts threatening to have him executed, and like it's like again, as soon as he can't get the dope, Morrell is out on his ass and yeah, yeah, yeah, he's he's forced out of the bunker and he's successfully is like one of the last people to flee Berlin. He does get captured by the Allies, He's questioned turned for more than a year, and he dies soon after the war, impoverished and miserable. And of course we all know how

Hitler died. So how I'm just kidding. Good story, having a good time. It's good stuff. It kind of is like a Marvel movie. I would in a Marvel movie. I would indie movie that came out where Paul Daniel Daniel Radcliffe are dealing with a farting corpse on a beach. It's like the marriage of those two. Yeah, I mean that would be uh, that'd be a great Daniel Radcliffe could be Hitler. Um, Paul Rudd could be Theodore Morrell. James Gunn could direct. Um. Yeah, let's do it. Throw

iron Man in there too, for some reason? Why not? Why not? Why not? All right? Well, Carolina, how you feeling. I am feeling like the public and private school system failed me by not addressing these issues, um and not telling me these corners of history. And also I am feeling drug free. I'm feeling inspired to stay drug free for a while. And when I say drug free and not just the normy stuff, but I feel like not smoking meth is at this point an accomplishment. Yes, and

don't don't don't do meth. We were just I don't think it would make me into a nath but you know it doesn't. Know. You don't want to get too much in the vent diagram with their behavior and just meth being one thing that they did and makes it all the less appealing. You will not become a Nazi because you smoke meth. But if you're a Nazi and you smoke meth, you'll become more of a Nazi. Yeah,

it's a general rule. If you start taking a shipload of meth, the things about you that are already not great, Like everybody has things about them that suck. And one of the downsides of a drug like meth is that it it makes everything about you bigger and more so. And so the meth will whatever you don't like about yourself, the meth will make me more of a thing about yourself, and perhaps that's not something you want. And this was

brought to you by Nancy Reagan's Drug for America. Yes, and the council for maybe tryoxy instead the drug with no consequences oxy content. Don't look at the Midwest also also no good stuff. Well, Carolina, you get any flogables to plug? I am going to plug my amazing podcast, True Romance. It is released every Thursday. We talked about dating crises, your dating nightmares, horrific breakups, and really good

love stories. So you can find it on Apple Podcasts, I hear radio wherever you listen to podcasts, and it's True Romance with Carolina Barlow and Devin Larry yep for Thank you so much for having me on Behind the Bastards. This was the coolest podcast I've ever been able to be on. Well, thank you so much for coming along Carolina and talking with me about Hitler and meth and Hitler's horrible farts. It's it's just all been amory, a magical,

magical story. All right. Well, that's gonna do it for us. Here it Behind the Bastards and only Behind the Bastards, the only podcast either Sophia or I are involved with. I hate you most of the time. Alright, follow up Cool Zone Media for all the podcasts we actually do that's been on the podcast