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(gentle music)
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(people chanting)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- [Narrator] Adolf Hitler believed
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he possessed superhuman qualities.
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In public, he claimed he'd
never been ill in his life.
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- Hitler was a complete hypochondriac.
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- [Narrator] But in private,
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he was hiding a terrible secret
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he had to keep covered
up for his entire life.
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- As a member of the master Aryan race,
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there was a strong bias
against congenital problems.
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- [Narrator] By the time
the most destructive war
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of the 20th century turned
against his aggressor,
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he could no longer hide the illness
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that was attacking his body.
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- He drools, he can't keep his arms,
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now what they were picking up
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was of course the escalation
of his Parkinson's.
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- [Narrator] And Hitler's
drug fueled madness
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was taking its toll.
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- He had become a drug addict,
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Hitler just degenerated and
became this raving sick guy.
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- [Narrator] This is the
truth behind the propaganda
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and lies about the 20th
century's most hated man.
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- In reality, Hitler became a human wreck.
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(people shouting)
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- [Narrator] Adolf
Hitler has been described
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as a grotesque figure,
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hollow chested with thin and
spindly legs, narrow shoulders,
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flabby flesh and brown,
rotten teeth, a drug addict,
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insane and delusional.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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But Adolf Hitler claimed to
be one of the hardest men
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Germany had seen for decades,
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equipped with the greatest
authority of any German leader.
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And the Reich Propaganda Ministry
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went to great lengths
to promote this myth.
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- [Announcer] Significant.
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- [Narrator] A leader who worked
tirelessly for his people,
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a non-smoker and a vegetarian.
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As with many aspects of
Hitler's public life,
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his sex life, his family life,
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his public image was an invention.
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Heil Hitler, meaning healthy Hitler,
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sound of body, sound of mind,
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was a well worked propaganda message
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to promote the power of the Führer.
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- It was an important part of the cult
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that the party created around Hitler
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to portray him as
basically a health saint.
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He was always shown and
presented as an abstinent person.
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People knew that the Führer
doesn't drink alcohol.
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He doesn't eat meat.
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He walks with his dog every day.
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He's in the clear mountain air.
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- [Narrator] Hitler's
glorified public persona
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belied his deep narcissism
and many ailments.
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He complained of skin irritations,
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stomach problems and explosive flatulence.
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According to US military medical reports,
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Hitler regularly took over 82
medications while in power.
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When Hitler's physician,
Dr. Theodor Morell,
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suggested he write up his medical history,
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drug addled Hitler said
he'd never been ill,
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so there was nothing to write about.
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By the time the end came,
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Hitler no longer had a clear understanding
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of what was happening to him,
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as a terminal illness
ravaged his failing body.
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His drug addled brain
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didn't seem to be able
to grasp the enormity
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of what he and his Nazi party
had inflicted on the world.
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(plane whirring)
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On April the 30th, 1945,
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as allied forces converged
on German cities,
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in a bunker under the
chancellery in Berlin,
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Hitler took his own life.
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(dramatic music)
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Days later, fragments of Hitler's body
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were recovered by the Red Army.
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Since Hitler's death,
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vast resources have been poured
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into the forensic examination
of what remains of Hitler.
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Can forensic examination of
remnants of Hitler's skull,
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medical notes, and personal accounts
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help explain the evil of Adolf Hitler.
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In 2017, Russian authorities
permitted a team of researchers
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to examine what was left of Hitler.
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Hitler's teeth indicated cyanide poisoning
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and confirmed he was on a vegetarian diet.
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Hitler was 56 when he
died and he had only five
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of his own teeth left.
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Over the years, historians and researchers
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have analyzed Hitler's mental health.
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An examination of Hitler's physical health
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relies on accounts from his
inner circle, his physicians,
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as well as the fragments
of his burnt body.
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Apart from the discovery of rotten teeth,
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Hitler may have been
predestined for poor health.
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Hitler's ancestral Homeland
was in lower Austria.
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In this isolated region,
inter marriage was common
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between peasant farmers
and their families.
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Hitler's parents were second cousins.
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So he came from a pool of genetic stock
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that may have been weakened
by centuries of inbreeding.
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Certainly that may have played out
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in his mother Klara's life.
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Her first three children did
not survive past infancy.
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So there was great relief
when on April the 20th, 1889,
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newborn Adolf survived.
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Klara doted on Adolf, and
they formed a very close bond.
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But as a boy, he was
prone to violent outbursts
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and considered a lazy child.
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A teacher at Hitler's secondary school
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was not impressed by the young student,
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recalling him as willful and arrogant,
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unwilling to listen to advice
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and demanding his fellow pupils
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give him their unqualified subservience.
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- I think this was
characteristic of Hitler
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from a very early age
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and it exemplified the fact
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that he was totally self-centered,
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totally obsessive, incapable
of having any opinion
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that disagreed with him.
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And he simply reacted in kind.
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- [Narrator] At home at all
Adolf Hitler's father, Alois,
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an alcoholic customs official,
was abusive and violent.
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He would explode into a
rage and attack his son,
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and at times, his wife, Klara.
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Hitler learned to be silent
through the beatings,
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once telling his mother
that he didn't say a word,
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even though he was whipped 32 times.
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- So if you look at the
household Hitler grew up in,
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it's really a classic model
of a dysfunctional house.
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First of all, he had a
doting mother and secondly,
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he had a distant, rigid
and punitive father.
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So you've got the same
kind of scenario there
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that you have with many serial killers.
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They have an over bonded
relationship with their mother
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and a much more distant
relationship with their father.
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- [Narrator] On the 3rd of January, 1903,
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Alois Hitler died of a heart
attack over his morning pint,
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when Hitler was just 14 years old,
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Four years later,
Hitler's mother Klara died
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after a long and painful
battle with breast cancer.
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Hitler was shattered.
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He'd idolized his mother
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and struggled to cope with her death.
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- His mother gets cancer when he's 17
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and he's absolutely devastated.
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Edward, the Jewish family doctor
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said he'd never seen anyone
as devastated at a funeral
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as he saw Hitler there
when his mother died.
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- [Narrator] With both parents gone,
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Hitler joined his childhood
friend August Kubizek in Vienna.
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Hitler's dream was to be an artist.
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He applied to the Academy of Fine Arts,
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but was rejected twice.
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The knock backs devastated Hitler.
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With very little money and
living in a men's hostel,
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Kubizek observed Hitler's
mental health deteriorating.
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He would choke over a catalog of hates,
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railing against everyone
who didn't understand him
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or appreciate him.
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He felt he was being
persecuted and cheated.
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His friend felt sure that
Hitler was becoming unbalanced.
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- He was certainly shattered
when his mother died.
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And I think he internalized this
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into this just carrying on
with this loose lifestyle
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and somewhere, trying to
think, what am I going to do?
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'Cause I don't think
he really had any idea.
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He really was drifting.
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(dramatic music)
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- [Narrator] And it seems,
Hitler's physical health
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was about to be called into question too.
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The First World War was
about to change Europe
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and the Austro-Hungarian army
was calling for recruits.
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When Hitler reported for
his medical examination,
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he was rejected as unfit for combat.
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This might have been the first indication
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that something was wrong.
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- Military medical boards are notorious
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for being pretty tough.
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They're not interested in excuses.
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And there certainly are cases
where they've stamped people
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with missing a leg as fit for combat duty.
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Hitler was found unfit for
duty and there was vague talk
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or he gave vague talk that it
was for respiratory reasons.
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Now this is nonsense.
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Hitler never had chest illness.
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So my theory is the only other reason
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they could have knocked him back
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was they found the congenital defects,
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and that's something they
didn't want in the army.
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- [Narrator] Apparently the
standards in the German army
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were not as high as in the
Austro-Hungarian military
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and Hitler was accepted there.
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Adolf Hitler enjoyed being a soldier,
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but his colleagues found
him odd and peculiar.
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- Hitler was a competent soldier.
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He was a bit of a lone wolf.
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We don't really know exactly
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what his officers thought of him.
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Occasionally in private conversations,
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there's evidence that there
was something about Hitler
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that didn't endear
himself to other people.
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(gentle music)
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- [Narrator] One account from
a soldier in his regiment
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claimed Hitler would suddenly jump up
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and make loud speeches
attacking Jews and Marxists.
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They gave him the nickname, Crazy Adolf,
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but something else made Hitler
the topic of barracks gossip.
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Hitler's close friend Ernst Hanfstaengl,
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says that Hitler was the
victim of sexual bullying.
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Old army comrades who
saw him in the washhouse
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noted that his genitals were
almost freakishly undeveloped.
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- Well, there were always rumors
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about this and it started with the fact
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that when he was out say
picnicking with these friends
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and he'd go behind a tree to pee,
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he could always see that
he leaked afterwards.
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Whenever a doctor examined him,
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he would never let them take his shirt off
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or examine his abdomen or pelvic area.
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So that sort of set up
the thought amongst people
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who are looking at him,
there's something wrong there.
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- [Narrator] And it seems there was.
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A Soviet pathologist examining
Hitler's burnt remains
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at the end of World War II
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stated that one testicle
couldn't be found.
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(keys tapping)
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This report was later
challenged by some historians
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as an attempt by the Russians
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to portray Hitler as sexually deformed.
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But it turns out they may
have been telling the truth.
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Recently discovered documents
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from Hitler's time in Landsberg Prison,
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after a failed attempt to
overthrow the government,
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point in the same direction.
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Like the popular school boy song,
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it seems Hitler did only have one ball.
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- He went into Landsberg Prison
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after the Bavarian Putsch,
and like any prisoner,
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he was examined by the prison
doctor and the prison doctor
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noted his weight, his height,
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all the details, said he
was pretty healthy and fit,
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but he was missing the right testicle.
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The likely explanation is that he had
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what we call spina bifida occulta.
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It is strongly associated
with genital abnormalities.
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So in Hitler's case,
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he's got a missing testicle,
it's called cryptorchidism.
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So he had right cryptorchidism,
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which is a congenital defect
and he's got hypospadias,
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and that is a hole at the
tip end of your penis,
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which makes you leak.
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Hitler's secret was now out.
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But of course it lay there
almost like a non-smoking gun,
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until discovery of the Landsberg records.
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- [Narrator] Could such
a deformity go some way
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in explaining Hitler's brutal regime.
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American psychoanalyst, Dr.
Henry Murray believed so.
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During the war, Murray
was involved in a covert
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US operation to understand
Hitler's psychology.
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He concluded that Hitler
dealt with his insecurities
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about his genitals by
exhibiting brute strength,
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ruthless domination
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and military conquest
in the world at large.
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- This can have considerable
effects on someone,
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and certainly in Hitler's case,
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he never was seen in a bathing costume.
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He'd never let a doctor
examine his abdomen
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or take off his shirt.
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And it's highly likely
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it would affect his attitude to intimacy.
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- [Narrator] The contrast between Hitler
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and the allied leaders could
not have been more stark.
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Winston Churchill loved swimming.
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And despite Franklin D
Roosevelt's severe disability,
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he too was far less body conscious
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than paranoid Adolf Hitler.
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- But the biggest issue is
in Hitler's racial attitudes.
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As a member of the master Aryan race,
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there was a strong bias
against congenital problems
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because that was carried
by so-called others,
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Jews, gypsies, thieves, homosexuals.
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So this was a strong contradiction
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to what he was putting out publicly
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and must have led to a lot of ducking
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and weaving on his part.
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(whirring)
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- [Narrator] Lance Corporal Hitler
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was injured twice in combat,
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at the Battle of the Somme in 1916,
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when a shell exploded,
wounding his left thigh.
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And two years later, in a
British mustard gas attack.
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He was sent to a military hospital,
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but while he was recovering,
Germany surrendered.
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Hitler was broken.
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Later, he would write of that
day with despair and anger
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and ask whether it had all been in vain.
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So a gang of wretched criminals
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could lay hams on the father land.
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- Hitler was shattered and this
started his train of thought
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that led to, what am I gonna
do now that the war is over
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and how do we get revenge
for our unfair loss?
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- I think Hitler believe that
it had all been for nothing,
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that Germany had been stabbed in the back
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by those on the home front,
the civilians, the Marxists,
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the Jews that didn't
understand what fighting
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at the front was like,
what that sacrifice meant.
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And he aimed to put that right.
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- [Narrator] His outrage
at Germany's defeat,
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along with his antisemitic,
anti communist beliefs
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found a home in the beer halls of Munich,
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where far right members
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of the German Workers Party Gathered.
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(upbeat music)
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- The Germans felt that
they had lost a war.
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They had lost economic power,
prestige and territory.
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They wanted greater economic strength,
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not to be reliant upon American loans.
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They wanted greater job
security and they wanted
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the prestige that they
felt was owing to Germany.
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- [Narrator] By 1921, Hitler was chairman
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of the newly formed Nazi party,
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a party that saw the German
race as superior to all others.
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It was a rapid rise to
power and a demonstration
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of Hitler's early commanding authority.
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- Hitler became leader of the Nazi party
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through the force of his personality.
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I think Hitler was super charged by it.
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It gave him a reason for being
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that perhaps he hadn't
had up until that point.
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- [Narrator] By 1930,
with Hitler as leader,
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the Nazi party was the second largest
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political party in Germany.
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And Hitler's brilliant oratory skills
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were drawing huge crowds.
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He was called a born natural orator,
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who began slowly and then all
at once seemed to take fire,
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as he railed against all the evils
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he saw as the ruin of Germany,
particularly the Jews.
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(audience cheering)
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Eyewitnesses commented on how in person,
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away from the public stage,
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he was a peculiarly
insignificant and vacant figure.
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Dorothy Thompson,
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the head of the Berlin
Bureau at the New York Post
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was definitely not impressed
when she met Hitler in 1931,
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she called him formless, almost faceless.
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He is the very prototype
of the little man.
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- Everything in public was
the most crude way of saying,
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I am powerful, I am big.
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I am the ultimate weapon as a human being.
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I think a good way of understanding it
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is existentially, inside
Hitler there was nothing,
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he was only something
when he projected out,
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particularly with the speeches.
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So take him away from that,
and he just about collapsed.
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- [Narrator] The Nazi propaganda machine
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wasn't relying on Hitler's looks
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and physical bearing
to promote the Führer.
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Instead, the Reich advanced Hitler
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as a leader who worked
tirelessly for his country,
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clean living, healthy vegetarian,
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who avoided all stimulants
like alcohol, nicotine,
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and coffee, but privately,
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Hitler was suffering from
a number of ailments.
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- Firstly, Hitler was a
complete hypochondriac,
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there's no question about that.
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When he became chancellor,
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he developed all these minor problems,
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skin rashes, bowel problems.
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Remember, he was the
great farter of history,
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headaches, those sort of things.
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A lot of this came from
what you could call stress,
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probably his diet, this kind of thing.
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- [Narrator] No treatments
seemed to give Hitler any relief,
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but all that changed in 1936,
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when he met Dr. Theodor Morell,
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the man who had put Hitler on
a path to certain destruction.
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- Hitler and Morell for the first time
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met in Munich in 1936,
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they had a mutual friend,
his name is Hoffmann.
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He was Hitler's photographer.
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Hitler told Morell that he
has been suffering from pain
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in his stomach, that his
doctors couldn't cure him.
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And then Morell offered and
unorthodox way of treating him.
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- [Narrator] According to
Morell, Hitler's stomach issues
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were caused by a complete exhaustion
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of the intestinal system.
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He prescribed a treatment of vitamins
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and probiotics and Hitler
immediately felt better.
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That was the start of Hitler
and Dr. Morell's relationship.
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And it would last until a few
days before Hitler's suicide
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nine years later.
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- Hitler now swears by Morell,
he will not go anywhere,
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do anything without Morell.
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What Hitler didn't know is that
Morell amidst other things,
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gave him a yoga preparation
with the organisms
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taken from the bowel
of a Bulgarian peasant.
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If Hitler knew that,
he would've gone crazy.
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So this is the basis on which Morell
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formed his relationship with Hitler.
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Morell really was a quack.
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- [Narrator] Dr. Morell became
indispensable to Hitler.
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And by 1937, he was appointed
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one of Hitler's personal physicians.
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Although he was the trained doctor,
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hitler's generals were
suspicious of Morell.
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Hitler's main physician, Carl Brant,
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feared Hitler was in
danger of being poisoned
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by Morell's prescribed cocktail
of hormones and vitamins.
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But Hitler wouldn't hear a word
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against the man who was
making him feel better.
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He said he had the greatest
confidence in Morell
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and would follow his
prescriptions to the letter.
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- Morell gave Hitler
these daily injections.
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He slept late, he slept
like till 11:00 AM.
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It was normal for him to wake up,
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roll up the sleeve of his pajamas
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and get his first injection from Morell.
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Then he thought, he's ready for the day.
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These injections contained mostly vitamins
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in the first four to five
years of the treatments.
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So an early, you could say
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psychological dependency developed.
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He thought, if Morell is
close to me, I'm fine.
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And this is actually how
it was in the beginning.
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- [Narrator] Hitler's inner circle
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was unnerved by Morell's
power over their leader.
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General Heinz Guderian called Morell
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a fat, unappetizing quack and Hermann G,
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disparagingly referred to Morell
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as the Reich syringe master.
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(gentle music)
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By 1943, with the tide of
war turning against him,
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Hitler's health was declining,
as well as stomach cramps,
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the Führer also suffered from headaches,
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double vision, dizziness and tinnitus.
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Hitler's secretary Traudl
Junge, reported that Hitler
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had become very dependent on Morell.
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She claimed the doctor would
turn up in person every day
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to administer his usual
medical working injection,
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and these started to contain
some very alarming substances.
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- Morell was giving over
90 different medications,
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about a dozen of them were heavy drugs.
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Hitler's favorite drug was,
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which is a euphoric making
opioid that is on the market
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still today as oxycodone.
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It actually created the opioid crisis
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in America and in other countries,
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and Hitler was getting this oxycodone
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intravenously in very high dosages.
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So the effect was extremely strong.
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It's a much stronger effect
than your everyday junkie has
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when he or she injects heroin for example.
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(upbeat music)
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- [Narrator] It's no wonder
Hitlers unsalable faith
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in his physician prevailed, but Dr. Morell
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was testing dozens of
unknown drugs on Hitler,
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including extractions from the intestines
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of male animals and amphetamines.
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Hitler's girlfriend, Eva Braun,
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also took advantage of Dr.
Morell's endless supply of drugs.
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Morell told Hitler's
personal secretary, Christa,
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he was giving him hormone
injections from bulls testicles,
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claiming, that should pep him up.
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(dramatic music)
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With so many drugs in his system,
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Hitler's failing libido
was obviously a problem.
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Hitler's armament minister, Albert Speer,
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questioned Dr. Morell's methods
and influence on the Führer.
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He commented that the
injections had to be given
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more and more frequently.
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Hitler was under Dr. Morell's spell
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and completely convinced of
his personal physician's genius
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and forbade any criticism of the man.
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What Speer was describing
was a classic relationship
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between a junkie and his dealer.
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- There's no doubt that
throughout his time in office,
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Hitler had bouts of great
sickness, maybe of depression.
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And so he became increasingly
reliant upon Morell,
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his advice and his drugs,
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and it was a bit of a vicious circle.
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- [Narrator] By 1943, Dr.
Morell was giving the Führer
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the addictive drug, as
well as high grade cocaine,
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injecting him several times a day.
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It's incredible to realize that Hitler
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was making decisions every day
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that directly affected the lives
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of tens of thousands of his own soldiers,
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all while he was constantly high on drugs.
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- Hitler became a human wreck
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from 1943 on because all those medicines
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that Morell gave him, late in the war,
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started to show their side effects.
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So he started trembling,
his skin was yellow.
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He was losing his train of thought.
509
00:32:02,940 --> 00:32:06,573
He was not fit anymore at all.
510
00:32:09,450 --> 00:32:13,200
- [Narrator] Did Morell turn
Hitler into a drug addict,
511
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,510
or was he simply powerless to resist
512
00:32:15,510 --> 00:32:18,480
the Führer's drug addled demands?
513
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:23,070
- British intelligence
actually stop their plan
514
00:32:23,070 --> 00:32:25,260
to assassinate Hitler.
515
00:32:25,260 --> 00:32:29,190
They realize that actually
Morell is doing their job.
516
00:32:29,190 --> 00:32:32,400
Anyone high on drugs is not that much
517
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,230
in contact with reality.
518
00:32:34,230 --> 00:32:37,620
And if you are the leader in the war,
519
00:32:37,620 --> 00:32:40,380
you have to be very much
in contact with reality.
520
00:32:40,380 --> 00:32:42,210
You cannot live in a dream world.
521
00:32:42,210 --> 00:32:46,200
This ultimately has to
lead to terrible decisions.
522
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,090
So they were quite happy
523
00:32:48,090 --> 00:32:51,273
with a degenerating Hitler still in power.
524
00:32:55,350 --> 00:32:57,180
- [Narrator] Hitler began showing signs
525
00:32:57,180 --> 00:32:59,403
of a serious medical condition.
526
00:33:01,530 --> 00:33:03,753
His left hand would often shake.
527
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:08,160
Dr. Theodor Morell
noticed this peculiarity
528
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:13,160
in 1941 and diagnosed it as
a stress related condition.
529
00:33:13,590 --> 00:33:15,510
- Hitler appeared perfectly healthy
530
00:33:15,510 --> 00:33:18,393
to people around him and of
course the German public,
531
00:33:19,230 --> 00:33:22,290
but from 1942,
532
00:33:22,290 --> 00:33:26,220
it became very obvious
to people, to Goebbels,
533
00:33:26,220 --> 00:33:29,580
to Guderian and other people
have all listed comments
534
00:33:29,580 --> 00:33:33,000
that suddenly, he's a very old man.
535
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:38,000
He looks overwhelmed,
he shuffles, he drools.
536
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:40,953
He can't keep his arms still.
537
00:33:43,470 --> 00:33:46,690
- [Narrator] His deteriorating
health was a secret
538
00:33:47,623 --> 00:33:49,170
Hitler could no longer hide.
539
00:33:49,170 --> 00:33:51,873
He was suffering from Parkinson's disease,
540
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:56,973
a degenerative neurological
disorder with no cure.
541
00:33:58,170 --> 00:34:00,630
- Now what they were
picking up was of course,
542
00:34:00,630 --> 00:34:04,650
the escalation of his Parkinson's.
543
00:34:04,650 --> 00:34:06,690
And that explains a couple of other things
544
00:34:06,690 --> 00:34:08,193
about his behavior.
545
00:34:09,989 --> 00:34:13,050
In the past, he'd always
been meticulously neat.
546
00:34:13,050 --> 00:34:17,089
As the Parkinson's went on,
you could see he had food
547
00:34:17,089 --> 00:34:21,300
sort of dripping down on
the front of his shirt.
548
00:34:21,300 --> 00:34:23,949
And it got to the stage
that he couldn't sit down
549
00:34:25,059 --> 00:34:27,297
in a chair, he needed
pushed underneath him.
550
00:34:27,297 --> 00:34:29,880
(gentle music)
551
00:34:32,130 --> 00:34:35,159
- [Narrator] Did Hitler's
Parkinson's disease
552
00:34:35,159 --> 00:34:37,400
affect his decision making abilities
553
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,293
and influence the outcomes of the war?
554
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:44,580
Neurologists suggest as much,
555
00:34:44,580 --> 00:34:47,850
questioning the reckless
choices Hitler made
556
00:34:47,850 --> 00:34:50,880
as his Parkinson's disease took hold.
557
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:52,650
- [Person] The Russian
settled upon a strategy
558
00:34:52,650 --> 00:34:55,469
that was to pay off handsomely
for them, realizing.
559
00:34:55,469 --> 00:34:57,990
- [Narrator] Like
Hitler's steadfast refusal
560
00:34:57,990 --> 00:35:01,410
to allow Paulus to
surrender at Stalingrad,
561
00:35:01,410 --> 00:35:06,300
in the face of overwhelming
odds in January, 1943.
562
00:35:06,300 --> 00:35:07,750
- [Person] Followed, blindly.
563
00:35:08,744 --> 00:35:10,310
And so doing, stretched their supply lines
564
00:35:10,310 --> 00:35:11,213
to the snapping point.
565
00:35:12,900 --> 00:35:16,740
- [Narrator] Or his 1944
failure to defend Normandy,
566
00:35:16,740 --> 00:35:20,220
or consider tactical retreats
on the Eastern front,
567
00:35:20,220 --> 00:35:23,043
condemning millions of
his own troops to death.
568
00:35:25,650 --> 00:35:28,770
It's also likely his worsening drug habit
569
00:35:28,770 --> 00:35:31,773
left him unable to make
clearheaded decisions.
570
00:35:33,540 --> 00:35:37,048
- So Hitler really used very strong drugs
571
00:35:37,048 --> 00:35:40,500
in regular intervals.
572
00:35:40,500 --> 00:35:44,790
His drug intake became completely mad.
573
00:35:44,790 --> 00:35:47,700
You could say because
he was using cocaine,
574
00:35:47,700 --> 00:35:52,700
which is a strong upper,
and then getting oxycodone,
575
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,900
which as an opioid is
always kind of a downer.
576
00:35:57,900 --> 00:36:00,300
So he had this what in street language
577
00:36:00,300 --> 00:36:02,133
is called speedball effect.
578
00:36:03,990 --> 00:36:08,040
- By the 20th of July, 1944,
579
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,600
the tide of war had turned against Germany
580
00:36:11,601 --> 00:36:15,873
and a plot to assassinate
the dictator was underway.
581
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:21,270
At a meeting, inside Hitler's Wolf's Lair
582
00:36:21,270 --> 00:36:24,900
headquarters in Poland, Nazi officer,
583
00:36:24,900 --> 00:36:27,870
lieutenant Colonel Claus Von Stauffenberg
584
00:36:27,870 --> 00:36:29,670
placed a briefcase with a bomb
585
00:36:29,670 --> 00:36:32,673
underneath the conference
table, close to the Führer.
586
00:36:34,530 --> 00:36:37,740
When it exploded, the
table leg protected Hitler
587
00:36:37,740 --> 00:36:39,273
from the worst of the blast,
588
00:36:40,110 --> 00:36:43,413
four people were killed and 13 injured.
589
00:36:44,850 --> 00:36:47,640
Morell rushed to the scene of the bombing
590
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:51,090
to attend to Hitler and
began removing splinters
591
00:36:51,090 --> 00:36:53,283
of glass and wood from his body.
592
00:36:54,780 --> 00:36:57,090
Hitler was scheduled
to meet with Mussolini
593
00:36:57,090 --> 00:36:58,680
later that evening
594
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,020
and convinced the doctor
to give him something
595
00:37:01,020 --> 00:37:02,133
to get him through.
596
00:37:04,110 --> 00:37:06,963
His injuries would've been very painful,
597
00:37:09,210 --> 00:37:13,760
but Morell dosed him up on
one of the strongest opioids,
598
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:17,553
and Hitler was ready to
meet the Italian leader.
599
00:37:18,420 --> 00:37:22,110
- Well, Mussolini got out of
the train at the Wolf's Lair,
600
00:37:22,110 --> 00:37:24,030
was obviously informed
601
00:37:24,030 --> 00:37:26,670
that there had been an
assassination attempt.
602
00:37:26,670 --> 00:37:31,670
Hitler was standing at the
platform, high on the opioid.
603
00:37:31,860 --> 00:37:33,660
So he didn't feel any pain.
604
00:37:33,660 --> 00:37:36,690
And Mussolini said, this is a miracle.
605
00:37:36,690 --> 00:37:39,450
You are superhuman.
606
00:37:39,450 --> 00:37:42,690
You can already greet me
and have meetings with me,
607
00:37:42,690 --> 00:37:46,233
even though you've nearly
been killed a few hours ago.
608
00:37:49,770 --> 00:37:53,793
- We know that there were at
least 42 assassination attempts
609
00:37:53,793 --> 00:37:57,810
on Hitler between the 1930s
and the end of the war.
610
00:37:57,810 --> 00:38:00,280
Hitler knew about many of
the assassination attempts.
611
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,580
The fact that he survived
them reinforced his view
612
00:38:02,580 --> 00:38:07,073
that he was sort of a
Superman that had been chosen
613
00:38:08,401 --> 00:38:11,910
to lead Germany in this
struggle for survival
614
00:38:11,910 --> 00:38:13,380
and that nothing could do him in
615
00:38:13,380 --> 00:38:16,353
and that these merely
confirmed his greatness.
616
00:38:17,220 --> 00:38:19,260
- [Narrator] Hitler was very lucky
617
00:38:19,260 --> 00:38:21,960
to survive this attempt on his life,
618
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:25,860
but his delusion that he was
protected by some higher power,
619
00:38:25,860 --> 00:38:30,153
along with his accelerating
drug use, was taking its toll.
620
00:38:31,474 --> 00:38:34,224
(dramatic music)
621
00:38:36,090 --> 00:38:40,890
Hitler's capacity was
failing on all fronts.
622
00:38:40,890 --> 00:38:43,143
Germany was losing the war.
623
00:38:44,070 --> 00:38:47,277
Over a month before the
assassination attempt,
624
00:38:47,277 --> 00:38:52,277
150,000 allied troops stormed
the beaches of Normandy,
625
00:38:52,770 --> 00:38:54,843
overwhelming the German army.
626
00:38:56,552 --> 00:38:59,250
(gentle music)
627
00:38:59,250 --> 00:39:01,680
Six months later, the Red Army
628
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:03,990
encountered their first horrific evidence
629
00:39:03,990 --> 00:39:06,930
of the true nature of Nazi excesses,
630
00:39:06,930 --> 00:39:10,233
when liberating Auschwitz
concentration camp.
631
00:39:13,140 --> 00:39:18,060
At the same time, the Americans
launched Operation Cobra,
632
00:39:18,060 --> 00:39:20,730
a surprise offensive and a key milestone
633
00:39:20,730 --> 00:39:23,103
in the liberation of France and Germany.
634
00:39:26,250 --> 00:39:29,250
Despite these heavy military losses,
635
00:39:29,250 --> 00:39:31,740
Hitler was obsessed with seeking revenge
636
00:39:31,740 --> 00:39:33,603
for the attempted assassination.
637
00:39:40,545 --> 00:39:42,480
- [Person 2] Adolf Hitler,
who had survived a bomb
638
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:44,430
planted by one of his own officers.
639
00:39:44,430 --> 00:39:47,760
- [Narrator] In his paranoid
state, he told his generals
640
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:51,330
that he would exterminate
this nest of vipers
641
00:39:51,330 --> 00:39:55,173
once and for all, and he did it.
642
00:39:56,040 --> 00:40:00,524
It is estimated that almost
5,000 Germans were executed
643
00:40:00,524 --> 00:40:04,773
after the July assassination
attempt on Hitler's life.
644
00:40:06,780 --> 00:40:08,910
The officers behind the plot
645
00:40:08,910 --> 00:40:11,313
were hung with piano wire from meat hooks.
646
00:40:12,780 --> 00:40:15,690
Their executions were
filmed and later shown
647
00:40:15,690 --> 00:40:19,443
to senior members of the
Nazis and the armed forces.
648
00:40:24,570 --> 00:40:26,790
at the Nazi military briefings
649
00:40:26,790 --> 00:40:29,656
that followed this mass execution,
650
00:40:29,656 --> 00:40:33,090
Hitler was chirpy and optimistic.
651
00:40:33,090 --> 00:40:37,263
It appeared he still believed
Germany would be victorious,
652
00:40:39,990 --> 00:40:43,710
but it seems it may have
been the regular injections
653
00:40:43,710 --> 00:40:48,477
of opioids, methamphetamine, and cocaine
654
00:40:48,477 --> 00:40:51,660
that were giving Hitler
a delusional confidence
655
00:40:51,660 --> 00:40:53,970
in the face of certain defeat.
656
00:40:55,290 --> 00:40:56,820
- After the assassination attempt,
657
00:40:56,820 --> 00:41:00,480
Hitler's drug use skyrocketed.
658
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:03,810
He used euphoric making opioids
659
00:41:03,810 --> 00:41:07,440
every other day to boost his morale.
660
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:10,920
He used cocaine a lot, over 50 times
661
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:14,940
from early August till September, 1944.
662
00:41:14,940 --> 00:41:16,680
So after the assassination attempt,
663
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:19,547
there's no more sober day
for the so-called Führer.
664
00:41:20,544 --> 00:41:21,377
- [Person 3] And a new ally
665
00:41:21,377 --> 00:41:22,710
came to the aid of a Soviet forces.
666
00:41:22,710 --> 00:41:25,620
- [Narrator] By the spring of 1945,
667
00:41:25,620 --> 00:41:28,653
the Red Army was closing in on Berlin,
668
00:41:29,580 --> 00:41:33,600
a gray haired 55 year old Hitler
669
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,453
moved into the Führer bunker in January.
670
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:41,100
And he insisted Morell come with him.
671
00:41:41,100 --> 00:41:43,890
- The bunker was quite small actually.
672
00:41:43,890 --> 00:41:47,700
The only people that had
bedrooms in the bunker
673
00:41:47,700 --> 00:41:50,640
were Hitler and Morell.
674
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:54,150
So their relationship
was still very intimate,
675
00:41:54,150 --> 00:41:57,780
but that changed over the
course of those bunker months.
676
00:41:57,780 --> 00:42:00,900
And this probably changed
677
00:42:00,900 --> 00:42:03,933
because Morell didn't
have the drugs anymore.
678
00:42:06,300 --> 00:42:09,390
- [Narrator] The British had
bombed the pharmaceutical plant
679
00:42:09,390 --> 00:42:13,470
responsible for making,
and it was getting harder
680
00:42:13,470 --> 00:42:16,413
and harder to find the
drugs Hitler craved.
681
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:22,020
By 1945, Hitler had no opiates,
682
00:42:22,020 --> 00:42:25,200
no cocaine and no methamphetamine.
683
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:28,320
- There's a note in Morell's diary
684
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:30,930
where he writes that two of his helpers
685
00:42:30,930 --> 00:42:34,330
are driving on motorcycles
through bombed out Berlin
686
00:42:35,353 --> 00:42:36,186
from pharmacy to pharmacy,
687
00:42:36,186 --> 00:42:39,090
trying to find the drugs for Hitler,
688
00:42:39,090 --> 00:42:42,213
but even the pharmacies
didn't have drugs anymore.
689
00:42:44,010 --> 00:42:46,629
- [Narrator] Hitler would've been sick
690
00:42:46,629 --> 00:42:49,350
and suffering severe drug withdrawals.
691
00:42:49,350 --> 00:42:52,109
- He had become a drug addict
692
00:42:52,109 --> 00:42:55,440
and and didn't have the
drugs anymore that he needed.
693
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:58,680
That was a very real physical problem,
694
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:03,680
which led to terrible withdrawal symptoms.
695
00:43:03,780 --> 00:43:05,730
Hitler just degenerated
696
00:43:05,730 --> 00:43:10,730
and became this raving sick
guy who was just in pain
697
00:43:13,013 --> 00:43:18,013
all the time and just not
functioning at all anymore.
698
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:22,200
- [Narrator] A few days
before Hitler died,
699
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:25,320
he told Morell to leave the bunker.
700
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:27,690
- One mistake a dealer should never make
701
00:43:27,690 --> 00:43:31,998
is to make his client
dependent on a substance
702
00:43:31,998 --> 00:43:35,407
and suddenly not be able to
supply the substance anymore.
703
00:43:35,407 --> 00:43:40,170
Hitler fired Morell in late April, 1945.
704
00:43:40,170 --> 00:43:44,366
He said to Morell, get out of the bunker,
705
00:43:44,366 --> 00:43:45,780
I don't wanna see you anymore.
706
00:43:45,780 --> 00:43:47,880
You've been turning me into an addict,
707
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:50,250
so Hitler seemed to have realized by then
708
00:43:50,250 --> 00:43:52,833
what had been happening to him.
709
00:43:54,540 --> 00:43:58,080
- [Narrator] On the 20th of
April, Morell left the bunker,
710
00:43:58,080 --> 00:43:59,910
taking one of the last planes
711
00:43:59,910 --> 00:44:02,103
out of a completely destroyed Berlin.
712
00:44:07,740 --> 00:44:11,973
The head of the German
state was a spent force.
713
00:44:14,460 --> 00:44:19,205
- And we can see in
those weeks in the bunker
714
00:44:19,205 --> 00:44:21,240
how he self destructs,
715
00:44:21,240 --> 00:44:26,240
he becomes very aggressive
against everyone around him.
716
00:44:26,940 --> 00:44:29,550
And he also starts destroying himself
717
00:44:29,550 --> 00:44:33,090
by becoming self abusive,
718
00:44:33,090 --> 00:44:37,380
picking his own skin with tweezers.
719
00:44:37,380 --> 00:44:42,380
He just becomes a very unhappy,
unhealthy, horrible person.
720
00:44:42,930 --> 00:44:45,180
Maybe that's the true
Hitler that he always was.
721
00:44:45,180 --> 00:44:47,506
Now it really comes out.
722
00:44:47,506 --> 00:44:49,170
(sirens whirring)
723
00:44:49,170 --> 00:44:52,300
- [Narrator] On the 28th of April, 1945,
724
00:44:52,300 --> 00:44:55,563
Hitler married Eva Braun in the bunker.
725
00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:00,630
Two days later, Eva took her own life
726
00:45:00,630 --> 00:45:03,390
by swallowing a cyanide pill
727
00:45:03,390 --> 00:45:05,493
and Hitler was right beside her.
728
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:11,703
He wanted to make sure he was
successful in his own death.
729
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:15,908
He swallowed a cyanide capsule
730
00:45:15,908 --> 00:45:18,393
and then shot himself in the head.
731
00:45:21,392 --> 00:45:24,847
It was the final predictable
act of a twisted mind.
732
00:45:26,010 --> 00:45:28,770
- Hitler was the greatest
narcissist in history.
733
00:45:28,770 --> 00:45:33,090
Death comes as a part of
every act that he plans.
734
00:45:33,090 --> 00:45:36,030
I will kill people who get in my way
735
00:45:36,030 --> 00:45:38,700
and I will eventually kill myself
736
00:45:38,700 --> 00:45:41,640
to show the world what they've lost.
737
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:46,590
It's another indication of
his absolute self-belief.
738
00:45:46,590 --> 00:45:50,463
The world must come to me, otherwise I go.
739
00:45:51,644 --> 00:45:55,561
(speaking in foreign language)
740
00:45:58,740 --> 00:46:01,620
- [Narrator] 75 years after his death,
741
00:46:01,620 --> 00:46:04,323
Hitler's health is still scrutinized.
742
00:46:06,455 --> 00:46:08,850
Fragments of his chard
body have been studied
743
00:46:08,850 --> 00:46:11,400
and rest restarted by scientists
744
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:13,440
hopeful they might find a gateway
745
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:16,623
into understanding the
destructive force of Hitler.
746
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:23,220
Pathologists, using pioneering
profiling techniques
747
00:46:23,220 --> 00:46:26,013
have tried to understand
Hitler's intensity.
748
00:46:27,750 --> 00:46:31,140
Geneticists have looked
into Hitler's heritage
749
00:46:31,140 --> 00:46:33,123
for clue to his perversity,
750
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:38,820
doctors have poured over
Hitler's medical records.
751
00:46:38,820 --> 00:46:41,010
Some shed light on his health,
752
00:46:41,010 --> 00:46:43,293
but are not a window into his mind.
753
00:46:46,140 --> 00:46:50,220
We may never have the tools
to understand Hitler's evil,
754
00:46:50,220 --> 00:46:52,680
but what Hitler does confirm
755
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:55,893
is that evil can exist in humankind.
756
00:47:00,780 --> 00:47:03,363
(upbeat music)
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