Doctor to the dictator: the career of Theodor Morell, personal physician to Adolf Hitler
✍ Scribed by Robert Kaplan
- Publisher
- Informa plc
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 83 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1039-8562
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Objective: To examine the life and career of Theodor Morell, personal physician to Adolf Hitler.
Conclusions: For nine years, Dr Theodor Morell had almost exclusive access to Hitler. Hitler, an illness phobic, lied about his medical history, refused to be examined except in the most superficial fashion and tended to accept or reject treatment according to his whim. Morell used a range of complementary treatments, intravenous glucose, amphetamines and opioid injections. While Morell's methods were suspect, it is doubtful he did his patient much harm. Dismissed by the disillusioned Dictator, he was captured by the Allies but never prosecuted, dying in 1948.