HITLER, DRUG ADDICT
Hopeless Victim, Suffering From Insomnia DOCTOR REVEALS CONDITION Rec. 1 p.m. LONDON, June 21. Hitler, during the latter part of his life, was almost helplessly addicted to drugs, Dr. Karl Brandt, physician to Hitler's entourage, revealed to a Supreme Headquarters intelligence officer. Brandt, who accompanied Hitler on all his trips, told the officer: "I have never met a man who had been subjected to more injections than Hitler." He said Hitler began taking drugs early in 1944, when his health deteriorated sharply, and his personal physician injected strychnine. Later glucose, grapefruit and sugar injections Were given. Hitler's health m thp pnd became hopeless. His nanas trembled and he walked with a stoop. Ae had an the symptoms of a man with incurable insomnia.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 146, 22 June 1945, Page 5
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