Norman Ohler
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And so I'm also thankful not only to the Red Army, but also to the American forces.
Really very thankful that they... Because National Socialism was hard to beat.
It was a beast, you know.
It was hard to beat.
So they capture Morel.
And they interrogate him, and he actually lives for another two years in American custody in Germany in a military prison.
And after these two years, his health's really bad.
He has heart problems.
And the Americans dump him in front of the Munich train station in a much too small...
kind of uniform jacket, like probably an American uniform.
And he's like lying on the pavement in front of the train station.
And a half Jewish nurse walks around there, finds him.
And he says, I'm Theo Morel.
It's like, it's really like in a movie.
I'm Theo Morel.
I was the personal physician.
This is 1947, Germany's in ruins.
And she brings him to a hospital.
His wife comes from Berlin for the last time.
They meet in a hospital at Tegernsee, a beautiful lake in Bavaria, and then he dies.