The Secret Diaries of Hitler's Doctor

by David Irving

Book Overview

This book tells the Real History of Adolf Hitler's doctors, based on the remarkable secret diary of his physician Professor Dr Theodor Morell and other papers. The Morell Diaries vanished in 1945, but... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 002558250X
• ISBN13: 9780025582507
• Release Date: June 1983
• Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

"Satan's" Doctor

David Irving's book, ""The Secret Dairies of Hitler's Doctor" was written in 1983 by David Irving. This is the story of a fat, balding and sloppy doctor named Theodor Morell, Adolf Hitler's personal physician. No doubt a meglomaniac, Morell catered to all of Hitler's medical needs and jealously guarded this title against all rival doctors vying to be Hitler's number one personal physician, particularly Karl Brandt Karl Brandt: The Nazi Doctor: Medicine and Power in the Third Reich and Felix Kersten The Kersten Memoirs 1940 - 1945 With a tremendous ego, Morell actually designed his own dashing uniform with a gold buckle sewn in by his wife so that he could feel part of the Fuhrer's jealous coterie. Nevertheless, Brandt and Kersten mocked him and intrigued against him. Morell was accused of munching "like a pig at a trough" and having no friends was the price of being Hitler's favorite doctor.The Devil's Doctor: Felix Kersten and the Secret Plot to Turn Himmler Against Hitler This book tells the story from Morell's start, whereupon as a licensed medical practitioner with only a dabbler's knowledge in other disciplines, that was enough to satisfiy Hitler to take him on. In 1936, when he arrived at Hitler's Berghof villa to begin serving as his personal physician, Morell was already used to treating the wealthy and famous of Germany. In the next eight years, at Hitler's behest, he would continue to do so. Other notable patients were Prince Phillip of Hesse, Benito Mussolini, Japan's Ambassabor Oshima (who presented him with a Samurai helmet) and even Neville Chamberlain (for flu, in 1938). Irving presents an interesting format of writing this book. He interweaves Morell's diaries and correspondence that were discovered shortly prior to publication of this book with the impressions of Hitler's stenographers, valets, housekeepers, and various other doctors. The reader of this rare book is treated to a careful description of Adolf Hitler's mental and physical health that details the pattern of decline that bizarrely parallels that of the Nazi war machine.The Psychopathic God: Adolph Hitler My only criticism of this book is that the reader is bored with endless notations of Morrell's meticulous record keeping and detailing of the daily injections of vitamins, glucose, and one or several of the 77 different medicines he administered to Hitler between 1941 to 1945. However, the reader is treated to a wealth of information previously unknown. In Morell's diaries we find proof that Hitler was weakened by dysentery for weeks at the height of the Battle for Russia in the summer of 1941, and again bedridden with hepatitis shortly before the Battle of the Buldge in 1944. We learn too that he was oppressed by the knowledge that he had a heart ailment-rapid progressive coronary sclerosis, which might at any moment write finis to all his schemes for Germany. In commenting about Morell's relationship with Hitler, Irving wrote: "It remains a matter for some wonderm

Excellent read

The title claims this is "Secret Diary of Hitler's personal physician, Dr. Morell." However, it's actually just David Irving's book which he published in the late 1970's. The book has definite merit and remains an essential read for anyone with an interest in Hitler's health and addiction to uppers and downers. The book is almost eerily intimate, with some rather gross personal details about Hitler which will make you either want to laugh or turn away, red-faced. The book focuses primarily on the years 1941-44, when Hitler's health deteriorates through a lack of exercise, fresh air and a complete dependence upon Morell's hypodermic needle. Fascinating stuff for the student of Hitler.

Hard to Evaluate

This is the purported diary of an immigrant German Jew living in New York during the war who recalls treating Hitler himself. Some of it rings true, other parts not. I do not know what to make of it regarding its authenticity. The book made a fascinating and sometimes disturbing read about the mysterious personality of this very evil person.