G?ring, Himmler, Speer .... These well-known figures of Germany during World War II are still known to people until today. Of course, everyone also knows that the leader of Germany during WWII was Hitler. But I'm afraid that when the name of one person is mentioned, it is unfamiliar to many: Dr. Theodor Morell. But when the fate of Germany's Führer, and indeed many of its most senior officials, is linked to that of a simple internist, he is no longer so unfamiliar.
▲No one has ever thought about the impact that Hitler's "doctor" had on the former in World War II.
Morell was born on July 22, 1886, in Trass-Quedlinburg (Münzenberg) in Upper Hesse. As the second son of a high school teacher, Morel had a keen interest in learning from an early age. As early as in his teens, he began his medical studies out of a desire to become a doctor. He studied the basics of medicine in Paris and Grenoble, France. 24 years old, he returned to Munich, Germany, and focused on gynecology and obstetrics and gynecology, and in 1913, after more than 10 years of hard work, Morel finally received his doctorate in medicine, which he had been waiting for.
The outbreak of war also changed Morel's intentions. Morrell, who had originally planned to stay at home, helping people with their illnesses, gave up the idea of becoming a ship's doctor, and instead took the initiative to join the brutal World War I to save lives until 1917.
Tired of the war, Morel returned to Berlin in 1918 and began his civilian career. After some on-the-job practice, the shaven-headed doctor soon became one of the most renowned names in western Berlin. He even married a wealthy wife in 1920. With this "rich wife", Morel not only built up his clinic, but also acquired state-of-the-art equipment: X-ray equipment, beautiful furniture, state-of-the-art physiotherapy equipment ..... It really has it all.
▲Photographed in one of the hospital operating rooms during World War I, Morrell had to voluntarily retire from the army in 1917 in favor of seeing civilians because he just couldn't take the intensity.
Morell's clinic in Berlin was also attacked by storm troopers in 1933. When he arrived in front of his clinic one day in late fall, he was stunned by what he saw: the original sign had been painted over with Jewish German words, and the clinic's hours of operation were only vaguely discernible. The reason his clinic was "patronized" was that the uneducated storm troopers, upon seeing the darker-skinned Morel, assumed that he was "Jewish".
After this incident, Morel decided to join the Nazi Party. The first Nazi official he served after joining the party was Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler's official photographer.
▲Hoffmann (1885-1957), the Nazis' official photographer, also had a remarkable reputation in World War II Germany. He was known as the "official photographer of the Nazi party" and even published several albums of paintings/photographs of Hitler to publicize the Führer's fame. To be met by this man was something the civilian doctor Morel never dreamed of doing in his life.
After helping Hoffmann cure his unspeakable venereal disease, Morell was able to meet Hitler, thanks to Hoffmann's help. He was able to meet with Hitler, who was fascinated by his "cure for all diseases" speech. In his first consultation with Hitler, Morel simply gave Hitler a shot with glucose and vitamins, which made Hitler, whose legs were shaking and whose hands were trembling, sit up from his bed. It was this wonderful consultation that made Hitler more and more convinced that the medical doctor had "miraculous powers"!
But Morell had no miraculous powers. All he could do was add a variety of nutritional hormones to his syringe and inject them into Hitler's body. The effect of such injections was often immediate: once, Hitler was lying in bed with a high fever, and Morel, who had rushed to the scene, simply blew him up, and within half an hour Hitler was sitting up out of bed, dressed in a thin brown shirt, and on his way to parade in the winter!
▲Maintaining good spirits at all times was a basic requirement for the dictator, and Morell's "magic needle" was able to fulfill this. With just one stitch, Hitler was able to review his troops in the winter in his thin, punchy brown shirt.
▲The medical doctor, who had been employed by Hitler as a physician since 1936, not only had the opportunity to appear on camera with Hitler, but also had an honor he could brag about: "I can see the Führer face-to-face every two days, or even every day, do other generals have this ability?"
However, as an imperial physician, Morel could give Hitler little more than a needle, and not much else in the way of treatment. Even to the late war, in order to make Hitler can keep high intensity work, Morel even used drugs - including cocaine, with methamphetamine components of the injection was also injected into Hitler's body along with him. And this was a fatal blow to the post-apocalyptic dictator, both physically and mentally.
Of course, there were many people other than Hitler who had been treated by the "imperial doctor", who was so shocked by Hitler's threats that he fainted in 1939 when he met with then Czechoslovakian President Emil Hacha, who was also a member of the Czechoslovakian government. This is where Morel came in. In order to "wake up" the unconscious president, Morell injected him with a burst of high (also methamphetamine). It wasn't long before the frightened president came out of his coma, listened to Hitler's speech with trepidation, and agreed to the entry of German troops.
▲Hatcha (1872-1945) was undoubtedly another one of Morell's "lucky" patients who was treated with the needle.
▲Heidrich "The Blonde Beast" was also treated by Morel for a while after his assassination. However, the Führer's "miracle doctor", a few days later, the butcher died on the operating table, the reason has not been identified.
In April 1945, when the Soviet army was about to capture Berlin, Morell, whose hands were shaking to the point where he couldn't hit a needle, was fired by Hitler. The once-arrogant doctor, who had been in charge of Hitler's medicines, eventually left the Führer's bunker in a tattered overcoat and a battered suitcase and fled to southern Germany. There he was discovered by American journalists, exposed, and imprisoned in a concentration camp, and in 1948, at the age of 61, Morel died in a small sanatorium in Tegernsee, West Germany. Even more ironically, it was a half-Jewish nurse, whom he had despised, who cared for the elderly man, who had become delirious and depressed!
▲Though he never received a military commission, the name Morel, undoubtedly, had a very strong influence on the whole of Germany. It was through his hands that Hitler was transformed from a dictator to an insane psychopath.