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The Secret Diaries of Hitler's Doctor THE SECRET DIARIES OF HITLER’S DOCTOR the secret diaries of hitler’s doctor This edition ISBN ––– Publishers of the various editions of The Secret Diaries of Hitler’s Doctor included Britain: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd.; Grafton; Panther Germany: Der Stern; Goldmann Verlag (Bertelsmann AG); Heyne Taschenbuchverlag France: Editions Acropole United States: William Morrow Inc. First Printing Second Printing Electronic Edition Focal Point Edition © Parforce UK Ltd. – An Adobe pdf (Portable Document Format) edition of this book is uploaded onto the FPP website at http://www.fpp.co.uk/books as a tool for students and academics. It can be downloaded for reading and study purposes only, and is not to be commercially distributed in any form. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be commercially reproduced, copied, or transmitted save with written permission of the author in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act (as amended). Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and to civil claims for damages. Readers are invited to submit any typographical errors to David Irving by mail at the address below, or via email at [email protected]. Informed comments and corrections on historical points are also welcomed. Focal Point Publications London WJ SE the secret diaries of hitler’s doctor David Irving is the son of a Royal Navy commander. Incompletely educated at Imperial College of Science & Technology and at University College London, he subsequently spent a year in Germany working in a steel mill and perfecting his fluency in the German language. Among his thirty books, the best-known include Hitler’s War; The Trail of the Fox: The Life of Field-Marshal Rommel; Accident, the Death of General Sikorski; The Destruction of Dresden; The Mare’s Nest; The German Atomic Bomb; The Destruction of Convoy PQ; The Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe; Göring: a Biography, and Nuremberg, the Last Battle. He has translated several works by other authors including Field- Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Reinhard Gehlen, and Nikki Lauda. He lives in Mayfair, London, and has raised five daughters. David Irving THE SECRET DIARIES OF HITLER’S DOCTOR Annotated and edited, with all relevant medical charts and docu- ments from Dr Theodor Morell’s file on Adolf Hitler F FOCAL POINT the secret diaries of hitler’s doctor Contents Introduction 10 The Relationship 16 Theodor Morell 26 “I Was Never Ill.” 31 “Patient A” 39 Outcast 49 Worried Sick 55 The Treatment 67 Morell’s Business Empire 76 Barbarossa and the Leeches 80 Brain Fever 93 The Second Electrocardiogram 101 I Give Him What He Needs 109 The Credit goes to Morell 114 Forte 123 Hungary 131 Worried about the Invasion 136 The Wolf Returns to his Lair 141 Unscathed 145 The Dams Burst 152 Frustrations 157 Jaundice 163 The Doctors’ Plot 169 A Change in Staff 178 Throat, Heart, and Other Problems 181 The Singer’s Nodule 194 The Battle of the Bulge 202 The Patient Has Become Pensive 208 Morell in Captivity 221 the secret diaries of hitler’s doctor Appendix I: Tests and Check-ups, – 229 January 9, 1940 (Blood Test) 230 January 10, 1940 (Glandular secretions) 231 January 15, 1940 (Routine VD tests) 233 December 28, 1940 (Fæcal analysis) 234 August 8, 1941 (Discussion of a fæcal analysis) 236 August 14, 1941 (Electrocardiogram) 238 August 20, 1941 (Interpretation of above) 239 May 11, 1943 (Electrocardiogram) 240 May 13, 1943 (Morell asks for advice) 241 May 17, 1943 (The cardiologist’s reply) 243 June 5, 1943 (Fæcal analysis) 245 June 1o, 1943 (Fæcal analysis, second opinion) 247 January 11, 1944 (Analysis of liquor) 248 January 12, 1944 (Laboratory reply) 249 March 2, 1944 (Re eye examination) 250 March 2, 1944 (Report on an Eye Examination) 252 September 24, 1944 (Electrocardiogram interpreted) 255 September 24, 1944 (Electrocardiogram interpreted) 256 October 1o, 1944 (Urinalysis) 257 November 24, 1944 (Blood sedimentation) 258 November 24, 1944 (Blood count) 259 December 2, 1944 (Morell asks cardiologist’s advice) 260 December 4, 1944 (Cardiologist’s reply) 262 April 7, 1945 (Eye examination) 264 Appendix II: The Medicines 266 Bibliography and Sources 277 Index 285 the secret diaries of hitler’s doctor Introduction bviously he had once been a corpulent and imposing figure, this elderly man lying on a stretcher in an empty O room of the Red Cross facility at Munich railroad station. But now his hair was awry, his face was pale; he was sobbing quietly to himself, the figure which had once been clad in a magnificent uniform was kitted out in a cast-off American battledress, Ameri- can socks, and a GI shirt several sizes too small for him. These were the clothes he had been allowed to take when thrown out of American civilian internment camp No. , better known as Dachau concentration camp. It was June , . The Americans had no further use for pris- oner number , – he himself had been cleared of war crimes charges, and the Doctors’ Trial at Nuremberg had ended without his giving evidence. So they had driven him to this railroad station, stuffed his discharge papers into his pocket and left him for the Red Cross to find. Two hours passed before a nurse, Eva Meier, spotted the pathetic figure. She arranged for an ambulance to take him to the auxiliary district hospital Alpenhof at Tegernsee. At the hospital his papers and possessions were listed. His pass- port showed him to be Professor Theo Morell, doctor of medicine, sixty years old. He looked much older. A discharge report drawn up by Dachau camp hospital on the previous day stated that he had serious cardiac trouble, that he was unable to work and was suffer- ing from “aphasic speech disorders.” introduction The papers also showed the reason for his internment: “Hitler’s personal physician.” morell never left that hospital. He died at . a.m. on May , , without revealing what he knew. His personal papers had been looted by the Americans. His widow had only his letters from in- ternment. “How often I have thought back to that fiftieth birthday,” he reflected in one letter, written on July , . “How swiftly the years have gone, and how sorry I am that I could not devote myself more to you. I’ve often wished I was standing at that turning point in our lives again.” Now, forty years later, his entire secret Hitler dossier has come into this author’s hands. it has been a long search. By , when I finished writing Hitler’s War, I had collected most of the other papers of Professor Theo Morell and all of the interrogation reports prepared on him at the war’s end. In September , while working in the National Archives in Washington, I came across a cardboard box containing Morell’s treatment diaries and the dossier he had kept on Hitler – evidently fearing that if something befell his top patient he would need to provide the Gestapo with detailed records. Historians will want to know that these diaries are authentic. Their history, so far as the author can reconstruct it, is this: in they were carried in an officer’s personal trunk out of Berlin to the sup- posed safety of a Bad Reichenhall institute in Southern Germany where they were buried in a bunker. A Dr Riedel ran this institute for Morell. Riedel confirmed in a deposition dated December , that Morell’s driver Stelzer had arrived from Berlin with several crates containing precious carpets and other goods, and that these had been stacked inside the bunker. On April , two trucks had arrived the secret diaries of hitler’s doctor from Morell’s Olmütz-based firm, Hamma Inc., carrying seventy crates of glandular secretions that Morell’s pharmaceutical proc- esses needed. The secret files were buried in the courtyard, and thus survived the initial upheaval of defeat. According to Morell’s assistant Dr Rolf Makkus, a lawyer in Bad Homburg, in , a French woman journalist had visited Morell in the first hospital at Bad Reichenhall during May and had learned of the cache. American troops then raided the institute. Riedel, it seems, traded the valuables in return for being left unmolested. “In my plight,” he said in one report, “I asked the American oc- cupation troops who had meanwhile arrived to put a guard on the laboratory. They were very considerate and immediately provided four soldiers and these made themselves at home in the bunker. Af- ter a while these sentries got bored and ransacked the entire Morell crates.” Morell’s papers were shipped to the Military Intelligence Service Centre, formerly the Luftwaffe’s notorious Dulag Luft interrogation camp, at Oberursel. Dr Karl Brandt, a rival Hitler doctor, had told them under inter- rogation a few weeks earlier that since Hitler had received almost daily injections, the composition of which Morell refused to reveal. “Morell kept a notebook which he surely has with him,” stated Brandt, “in which he regularly noted names and treatments admin- istered.” The Americans now had those notes. Headed by Captain Walter H Gruendl, a former research chemist, a team began to interrogate Morell and the dozen other physicians who had treated Hitler over the years. .CCPWE No , Ashcan, Report DI–. introduction Dr Morell’s memory was genuinely shaky. An early interrogation report on him states, “Some of his information is produced from memory; some is based on documentary evidence found in his pa- pers... It should also be noted here that... on some occasions he can recall things which he later is unable to confirm.” his documents were shipped to the United States and vanished from view (thus sharing the fate of Eva Braun’s diaries and her inti- mate correspondence with Hitler, the diaries of Hans Lammers, Karl Wolff and a score of other Third Reich personalities).
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