THE SECRET DIARIES OF HITLER’S DOCTOR - David Irving

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THE SECRET DIARIES OF

HITLER'S DOCTOR

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the secret diaries of hitler's doctor

This edition ISBN 1?872197?24?8

Publishers of the various editions of The Secret Diaries of Hitler's Doctor

included Britain: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd.; Grafton; Panther Germany: Der Stern; Goldmann Verlag (Bertelsmann AG);

Heyne Taschenbuchverlag France: Editions Acropole United States: William Morrow Inc.

First Printing 1983 Second Printing 1990 Electronic Edition 2001 Focal Point Edition 2005

? Parforce UK Ltd. 2001?2005

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Readers are invited to submit any typographical errors to David Irving by mail at the address below, or via email at info@fpp.co.uk. Informed comments and corrections on historical points are also welcomed.

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David Irving is the son of a Royal Navy commander. Incompletely educated at Imperial College of Science & Technology and at University College London, he subsequently spent a year in Germany working in a steel mill and perfecting his fluency in the German language. Among his thirty books, the best-known include Hitler's War; The Trail of the Fox: The Life of Field-Marshal Rommel; Accident, the Death of General Sikorski; The Destruction of Dresden; The Mare's Nest; The German Atomic Bomb; The Destruction of Convoy PQ17; The Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe; G?ring: a Biography, and Nuremberg, the Last Battle. He has translated several works by other authors including FieldMarshal Wilhelm Keitel, Reinhard Gehlen, and Nikki Lauda. He lives in Mayfair, London, and has raised five daughters.

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David Irving

THE SECRET DIARIES OF

HITLER'S DOCTOR

Annotated and edited, with all relevant medical charts and documents from Dr Theodor Morell's file on Adolf Hitler

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Contents

Introduction

10

The Relationship

16

Theodor Morell

26

"I Was Never Ill."

31

"Patient A"

39

Outcast

49

Worried Sick

55

The Treatment

67

Morell's Business Empire

76

Barbarossa and the Leeches

80

Brain Fever

93

The Second Electrocardiogram

101

I Give Him What He Needs

109

The Credit goes to Morell

114

Forte

123

Hungary

131

Worried about the Invasion

136

The Wolf Returns to his Lair

141

Unscathed

145

The Dams Burst

152

Frustrations

157

Jaundice

163

The Doctors' Plot

169

A Change in Staff

178

Throat, Heart, and Other Problems

181

The Singer's Nodule

194

The Battle of the Bulge

202

The Patient Has Become Pensive

208

Morell in Captivity

221

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Appendix I: Tests and Check-ups, 1940?1945 229

January 9, 1940 (Blood Test)

230

January 10, 1940 (Glandular secretions)

231

January 15, 1940 (Routine VD tests)

233

December 28, 1940 (F?cal analysis)

234

August 8, 1941 (Discussion of a f?cal analysis)

236

August 14, 1941 (Electrocardiogram)

238

August 20, 1941 (Interpretation of above)

239

May 11, 1943 (Electrocardiogram)

240

May 13, 1943 (Morell asks for advice)

241

May 17, 1943 (The cardiologist's reply)

243

June 5, 1943 (F?cal analysis)

245

June 1o, 1943 (F?cal analysis, second opinion)

247

January 11, 1944 (Analysis of liquor)

248

January 12, 1944 (Laboratory reply)

249

March 2, 1944 (Re eye examination)

250

March 2, 1944 (Report on an Eye Examination) 252

September 24, 1944 (Electrocardiogram interpreted) 255

September 24, 1944 (Electrocardiogram interpreted) 256

October 1o, 1944 (Urinalysis)

257

November 24, 1944 (Blood sedimentation)

258

November 24, 1944 (Blood count)

259

December 2, 1944 (Morell asks cardiologist's advice) 260

December 4, 1944 (Cardiologist's reply)

262

April 7, 1945 (Eye examination)

264

Appendix II: The Medicines

266

Bibliography and Sources

277

Index

285

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