An interpretation of the head doctor's annotations of the German dictator, put the reflector on a little explore in the history books.
It seems that all the chapters are written, when Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany is about. A new book puts on the table an aspect so far ignored by the history books and that could give a new narrative to the facts: How the narcotic ones marked the events of the Third Reich?
German writer and journalist Norman Ohler, found in the federal archive of Germany, various medical notes of Theodor Morell, the caretaker of Hitler's health. The exhaustive review and consequent interpretation of these documents resulted in High Hitler drugs in the Third Reich, a book which discusses the recurrent and increasing use of certain drugs, particularly methamphetamine, by the German leader.
According to the text, more than supremacy and purity area, in the vein of Hitler ran experimental German chemistry. What Ohler found among the notes of illegible handwriting, were some keys where we talk about daily applications, foreign substances and increasing doses. "A total of 800 injections over 1,349 days" is undoubtedly a new profile in the Führer biography, where the drug addiction is exposed.
Evidence of the use of barbiturates and high amounts of cocaine are some of the findings. However, it is striking to note Hitler's meeting with Benito Mussolini in July 1943. Reports referring to this meeting between the two politicians describe an exacerbated and euphoric behavior by the German speaker who succeeded in convincing the Italian of Not abandoning the powers of the axis.
Behind this political achievement, is an experiment of Dr. Morell called "Eukodal", a systemic analgesic related to heroin but of a greater effect. The use of psychotropic substances was beyond personal.
Inhibiting hunger and sleep, as well as producing a state of euphoria, seem like convenient situations for the men who fight the battle in the first line of fire. Methamphetamines began to be distributed among the members of the German army during the campaigns of conquest with the name of Pervitin. A contradiction clearly. While the regime publicly combated drug use, it distributed among its soldiers a performance-enhancing substance, a result of the growing pharmaceutical industry "the laboratory of the world" as it was known to the central European country at the beginning of the last century.
Although Norman Ohler warns the reader about the use of interpretive models for the construction of his book, edited in Mexico by Planeta: the data and the proposed perspectives undoubtedly add new nuances to either the historical fact or the legend.
He had either narcolepsy or sleeping sickness...
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