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NOTES FROM THE INTERROGATION OF ADOLF HITLER'S PHYSI

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NOTES FROM THE INTERROGATION OF ADOLF HITLER'S PHYSI
NOTES FROM THE INTERROGATION OF ADOLF HITLER'S PHYSI
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An historic collection of five notebooks containing the extensive notes of U.S. Army interrogator Herman Merl, a Vienna-born medical technician who was pressed into service by military intelligence to interview Hitler's primary physicians, Dr. Theodor Morell and Dr. Karl Brandt. Merl's findings would be used in an exhaustive report which would come to be known as "Hitler As Seen By His Doctors" (a copy of which is also offered in this sale). Merl's notes, obtained directly from his estate, are contained within five 65pp. 8vo. "Stenogramm" notebooks, all German-made, four of which are labeled by Merl with the name of the person interviewed and in some cases the date of the interview. The notes are partly in pencil, and much is written in German and in a medical shorthand which we have been unable to decipher, so a careful deciphering of these texts may reveal much. The first notebook is labeled "Dr. Morell Sept. 7, 1945" bears 10pp. of text and begins with Merl's listing of the doctors he interviewed, who also included Drs. Giesing, and von Hasselbach, and he mentions dental x-rays of Gen. Albert Kesselring. On Sep. 21st, Merl notes: "...Dr. Morell...was interrogated from 9 A.M. to 11 A.M. by me. He was asked by me about injections...medications, intramuscular, intradermal...He was with Hitler for a period of over 8 years...my interrogation on the medical field will be continued. Questions on Eva Braun, Hitler's girl, was also asked by me. His sexual life and intercourse with Eva Braun was told to me..." The next five days show Merl preparing and translating the Morell report on Hitler, and mentions Kesselring stating that Patton was a "great" general, Clark "good", and Hitler "clever". The second notebook, dated Sep. 21, bears 20pp. of text and appears to be Merl's notes from the Morell interview. Merl's notes are extensive, listing all of the various vitamins, injections, and bizarre compounds Hitler was administered while under the care of Morell, and most of these "remedies" appear in the final report issued by Army Intelligence. Apparently also mentioned are the various male and female hormones, including the extracts of bull testes used by Hitler in an attempt to regulate his level of testosterone. A physical description of Hitler is also set forth, as well as his pulse and the fact that he had tremors. The third and fourth notebooks concern the interrogation of Dr. Karl Brandt and contain a total of 31pp. of text in pencil. In these notebooks, Merl used a great deal of medical shorthand, but it is clear that he obtained Brandt's biography and extensive information on the doctor's treatment of Hitler. Notes on Hitler include: "...gutteral pronounciation...angina...meteorism [an accumulation of gas]...vegetarian...lumbago...strychnine 0.04mg Belladonna 0.4...slight tremor, possible psychogenic origin. After July 20, no tremor...Parkinson?...hysterical, memory excellent...megalomaniac...". The last notebook, 18pp. of text in pencil, bears one disbound page headed "Morel" which leads us to believe that these are notes from a follow-up interview of Morel. They commence with a brief summary of various vitamins and medications given Hitler from 1936, on, and mention an electrocardiogram. He continues, mentioning Morrel's opinion on Hitler's sexuality: "Homosex / [?] Eva Braun = seperate rooms. Was a night person...effusion...Hormones about 12 times...Prokinon[?]

= female...female hormone - injection 50,000 units...". Additional content concerns additional injections, Hitler's gall bladder and liver functions, his incresing tremors, nervousness and irritability, a mention of astrology, and lists the names of many of those who were in Hitler's bunker at the time of its capture. Overall in very good condition. DR. THEODOR MORELL (1886-1948) was Hitler's primary and most responsible for the myriad drugs, hormones and quack compounds fed to Hitler for nearly a decade. He was the main rival of Dr. KARL BRANDT (1904-1948), an SS-Brigadefuhrer selected as Hitler's personal physician in 1934. Brandt also headed the Nazi euthanasia program and was hanged for his crimes in 1948. These notes, original source material for the first official report on Hitler's mental and physical state to have been generated from information obtained from his personal physicians, are of great historical importance and should be carefully "translated" for additional facts which may have been excluded or censored from the final Army Intelligence report.

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NOTES FROM THE INTERROGATION OF ADOLF HITLER'S PHYSI

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