Norman Ohler

Petersburg, in the north.

And in the south, we're going to go for the oil fields, basically.

That was his plan.

He said, let's not do Moscow.

And high command was like, this is the biggest mistake.

We must take Moscow.

If we take Moscow, we're going to win.

And Hitler became ill for the first time on the day this decision, I mean, this is a dynamic thing that's going on, you know, they're moving and now they have to decide, will we split up or we will continue towards Moscow?

And he had the Russian flu, in German, the Ruhr, which is a

like a flu type disease with very high fever it comes like they were in the field like so they were in the east you know camping out maybe he drank water that wasn't good or he had some you know they tested everything meticulously but he got

You know, he got sick, high fever, he felt like shit.

And he said to Morel, and you know, you can see that in Morel's notes, like Morel describes this very vividly in his notes, which are at the Federal Archives, which no historian ever looked at, except me, the non-historian, which is kind of funny.

So he describes how Hitler then asks of him, basically says vitamins are not enough anymore.

Like he's very weak.

He must go to the military briefing.

But the flu is quite a severe disease, I think.

If you have a heavy flu, you really feel like you're going to die.

You can't go to a military briefing.

But Morels kind of fought with himself and then he decided to inject an opioid into Hitler's veins intravenously, like the strongest application possible.

And this was Dolantin, which is a German opioid that was legal.