Re: OT Nazi Drugs WAS:Re: [Leica] Nazi whisky

["Dan Post" <dpost@triad.rr.com>]

Well, not to be thought of as aome type of Nazi, I must confess reading
several books while a student of psychology- many written by psychiatrists
who had attempted to analyse the effects of an overbearing father and a
doting mother on the psyche of the young Hitler. Dr. Morrel was his personal
pysician, and did prescribe morphine to Hitler, as well as other medications
we would question today. PArt of his vegetarianism was a chronic case of
inflamed bowel, and he was quite prone to flatus. I can imagine that he was
a real treat at dinner parties!
Aside from other purported sexual peccadilloes, and his fascination with
younger girls, he was at one time quite superstitious. I finally figured
that the reason people go bad is probably best explained with the "Chaos
Theory". I find it interesting that everytime a serial killer is unmasked,
there are those who were neighbors or acquaintences that remark what a nice
person he was, how quiet, that he loved children, and small animals, was
always helpful and neigborly! And they can't figure out why there are so
many bodies buried in the back garden!
What scares me is that normal people, everyday people, can suddenly veer
into the realm of the unknown- and become monsters.
To stay on topic, it works the same way with photographers. Some trundle
along, happily snapping away with their Canons and Nikons, and some veer to
the dark side, and become Leica users- looking for dingy dark venues to use
the Noctilux, or quietly sneaking through the city streets, quietly and
unobtrusively snapping shots of totally unaware victims!
So the mystery of Leicas remain- why are seemingly normal, nice
photographers suddenly start to slaver and drool over these fascinating
pieces of art? ( He says, wiping the slobber off his chin....)

Dan ( Luke! I am your father, LUKE!) Post
- ----- Original Message -----
From: John Coan <jcoan@alumni.duke.edu>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 3:49 PM
Subject: OT Nazi Drugs WAS:Re: [Leica] Nazi whisky


> Wasn't he a drug addict?  I seem to remember a story that the opiod
> methadone was invented in Nazi Germany as a substitute for morphine, which
> was unobtainable due to all the poppy growing areas being under control of
> the other side in the war.  I remember reading he took drugs, perhaps not
> methadone but amphetamine?
>
> In the same stream of thought I read somewhere else that the United States
> has a strategic reserve of either morphine or opium (from which one may
> manufacture the former) for war use.  With all the newer completely
> synthetic painkillers now I wonder if this is even a necessity?
>
> At 02:37 PM 06/18/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> >Der Fuhrer was noted as being a tee-totaler, and non-smoker as well as a
> >vegetarian who loved dogs; so many wasted virtues, it seems....
> >
> >Dan ( Und you haf relatives in der old country?) Post
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Douglas McLernon <dhwsmc@eircom.net>
> >To: LEICA <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> >Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 6:29 AM
> >Subject: [Leica] Nazi whisky
> >
> >
> > > What kind of whisky did Hitler drink ;^-)
> > >
>