Norman Ohler
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riding on a motorcycle through bombed out Berlin from pharmacy to pharmacy, basically going into the pharmacies, trying to score Oikodal and he couldn't find it anymore.
It was nowhere to be found.
And that's when Hitler goes into withdrawal.
What I find surprising is that he didn't use another opioid because morphine was available all the way till the end, but he never kind of made that switch then.
Like he doesn't,
Also, he didn't realize for a long time that he becomes physically dependent on a drug, that he becomes a drug addict.
But this realization happens in the last weeks in the bunker.
Because Goebbels, he understood it.
And Goebbels wanted that bedroom, the second bedroom.
So he said to Hitler...
Do you understand what's going on that Morel turns you into a drug addict?
And he does like... And at one point he realized what Goebbels is saying is true because he felt the withdrawal.
He was shaking.
He felt like shit.
And...
And Morel is like giving him weird stuff in the end.
Like one time he gives him Harmin, which is an MAO inhibitor, which is part of ayahuasca actually, because he still had that in his doctor's bag.
It hadn't been used yet.
So it gives him that, which also creates some kind of a weird...
high but you know Hitler at one point realizes really what's going on this is late April so very late in the game and there's a few reports of what actually happens like some say that Morel has to kneel in front of him and that Hitler puts a gun on his head and says you've been making me addicted to opioids get the hell out of the bunker for sure he fires him that day and Morel is described as being in tears like