WAS ADOLF HITLER a drug addict? Pop culture has exploited the image of the haggard, raging, bunker-bound, declining-and-falling Hitler of the war's weary and exhausted end: the puffy, bloodshot eyes, the hands shaking (some say because of the onset of Parkinson's disease), the stress of waging a war and a genocide wearing heavily on the dictator's shattered nerves.
Readers of the major Hitler biographies have been long familiar with the hovering presence of Doktor Theodor Morell, a Dr. Feelgood dispenser of pills and many, many shots of various concoctions into the arm of the ailing Führer.
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