High on Hypocrisy: Hitler's Hidden Addiction

Hitler sold the world a saintly vegetarian image—while his veins pulsed with meth and cocaine.

But the bigger problem? The world believed the act. So his personal doctor turned the

Führer into a walking pharmacy—daily syringes packed with Pervitin, morphine, and straight-up

coke. One shot at breakfast for “energy,” another before speeches so his eyes could

blaze into the crowd. By 1943 the tremors started; by 1944 he shuffled like a zombie,

hand tucked behind back to hide the shakes. Inside the bunker he needed nose drops

laced with cocaine just to stay awake for war maps he no longer understood. The “clean” dictator

was literally high on his own supply while preaching purity to millions. Would history have