Was Hitler’s Drug Use Actually Insane by 1930s Standards?
Adolf Hitler’s drug use is usually told as a simple story: methamphetamine, cocaine, opioids, injections, and a personal doctor who kept adding more.But once you look at what doctors in the 1930s and 1940s actually considered normal medicine, the story gets much stranger.This episode follows Hitler’s doctor Theodor Morell, the famous black pills, Pervitin, Eukodal, cocaine, hormones, injections and the medical system that grew around them and asks a different question:Was Hitler’s drug use actually insane by the standards of his own time?A calm, detailed history story for late-night listening.
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