Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler

Author:Norman Ohler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, History, World War II, Narcotics, Psychology, Germany
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2017-03-06T13:00:00+00:00

In a neurological respect, the specialist diagnosed the patient as normal: no hallucinations, no incontinence, functioning memory, and sense of time and space. “Emotionally unstable, however—either love or hate. Constant flux of thoughts, his statements always relevant. . . . the Führer’s psychological condition is very complex.”133

Examining Hitler’s burst eardrums, Giesing found a marked sickle-shaped tear in the right ear and a smaller injury in the left. When treating the sensitive tissue with acid, he admired Hitler’s extraordinary impassivity. He felt no pain any more, Patient A boasted. And, in any case, pain only existed to make people harder. Giesing couldn’t have guessed that perhaps he didn’t feel the pain because he had been given drugs by his personal physician shortly beforehand. There were no discussions between the two doctors. And while Giesing learned nothing from Morell about what he had administered, Morell had no idea what the new doctor was prescribing to the patient: “I was not briefed by ear specialist Dr. Giesing,” Morell noted sourly.134 The two doctors disliked each other from the first moment. When Morell approached Giesing, on his arrival, with the words, “Who are you? Who called you? Why didn’t you report to me?” Giesing fired back: “As an officer I only have to report to my military superiors, not to you, a civilian.”135 After that the top dog refused to even look at the newly recruited specialist.

Giesing described the personal physician on another occasion with little sympathy and an acid pen:

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