Hitler's Meth Addiction
Share
Sam Parr shares a historical revelation about drug use in Nazi Germany and Hitler's personal addiction.
"I started looking into this after seeing a video of Hitler at the 1936 German Olympics where he's rocking back and forth, very clearly on drugs like cocaine or something. Someone in the comments mentioned this book called 'Blitz: Drugs in the Third Reich.'
After reading it, I learned Hitler and many Nazis were heavy drug users. In the 1930s, morphine, heroin, and meth were invented and doctors thought they were miracle drugs. They'd say 'take this meth, it makes you feel great, gives you euphoria, you'll stay up all the time, eat less.'
Bayer, the drug company, was selling this stuff - they even put it in chocolates. It was so common that about 60% of German doctors were addicted to morphine, and these were the same people voting on laws about controlled substances.
Hitler was getting injected with meth for years. That's one of the reasons why, when they were getting bombed at the very last minute, he was saying 'No, we're doing great' - because he was hallucinating and had thoughts of grandeur, typical meth behavior."
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.