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.He should go for lots of walks but on level ground and withoutover-exertion. Why, he said, he s got nothing wrong with his heart, has he?Or are you thinking of the spasms and circulatory problems? Yes. I answered.(Of course I have no right to discuss the car-diological findings with third parties.) But the Führer shouldn t always drive to the tea house and back.He ought at least to make the return trip, with its hills, on foot. You tell the Führer that, I replied. There s got to be a total change in the Führer s entire body tomake him tougher.He s always been plagued by these stomach ail-ments, some time back he had that constant diarrhoea and nowthese last weeks all over again.I pointed out that this latest episode was not diarrhoea but con-stipation and that the illness had come about because of suspectraw foods.He said he knew that, but that if the Führer had been more ro-bust the bacteria would not have been able to gain a foothold orThis PDF version: © Parforce UK Ltd 2001Reporterrors112 The Secret Diariesonly to a small extent.He said he had wanted to tell me all this andthat was why he had invited me over.I remarked that there was noth-ing new in all this and I was already paying heed to it.Walking down the steps Ribbentrop started all over again, where-upon I pointed out that he was already a difficult enough patient,but the Führer was even more so as he turned down most thingsright from the start.As we took leave of each other he still seemedconvinced that he was dishing up something new to me.How un-encumbered and naive laymen often are in their medical opinions!on June 28 morell spoke with Dr Zabel, director of a nature clinicin Berchtesgaden) about Hitler s diet.Zabel flatly refused to lay downwhat Hitler should eat without being advised as to Hitler s health,appetite, weight and other factors. I particularly want to avoid theFührer getting the impression that because he is being catered forseparately these amounts have been specified by me, wrote Zabel toMorell.When Morell proposed to Zabel that the salads should be brieflyboiled, following Nissle s recommendation, he was horrified. Justfor the record, Zabel wrote, let me repeat that this adds to the bur-den on the gastro-intestinal tract while not necessarily getting ridof the bacteria, and simultaneously destroys virtually all the water-soluble vitamins, ferments and enzymes.preparations went ahead for Citadel, the two-pronged attack onthe Russian salient at Kursk.Hitler vested much hope in this offensive,but there were difficulties in amassing all the men and equipmentin time.He remained at the Berghof, while Morell continued to treathim, guarding his privileged position in Hitler s entourage with noless jealousy and cunning than before.Hitler travelled to Munichon the fifteenth of June where Morell saw him at noon-thirty, andThis PDF version: © Parforce UK Ltd 2001Reporterrorsof Hitler s Doctor 113returned to the Obersalzberg the next day.The medical notes re-mained routine.June 20, 194312.45 p.m.Is looking very good.Complains of worry caused byresponsibilities.curiously goebbels wrote on June 21 after seeing Hitler, Unfor-tunately he does not look at all healthy.One can see how the last fewmonths have gnawed at him.There is only a vestige of the physicalfitness we all used to admire so much in him. Injections as usual, wrote Morell four days later.Footnotes:1.Felix Kersten was a Swedish nature healer practising in Berlinand was masseur to Himmler and Ribbentrop.See the Kersten Memoirs, 1940-1945, and particularly chapter xxiii,Report on Hitler s Illness, with its diary entry of December 12,1942.According to this bogus source a paralysis of syphilitic originthat had first shown in Hitler in 1937 recurred in 1942.Morell s bloodtests disprove this completely.Hitler s adjutant Schaub states that Hitler refused to have any-thing to do with this masseur commenting: There s not an ounceof surplus fat on my body and my brain has got enough to do as itis.So why should I let such a Nature s Apostle get his hands on me?If this man is so fantastic, it puzzles me that you lot are always soill.This PDF version: © Parforce UK Ltd 2001Reporterrors114 The Secret DiariesThe Credit goes to Morelln July 1 hitler returned to the Wolf s Lair.Morell gave himOthe usual pick-me-up before he spoke that evening to severalhundred officers about Operation Citadel: intravenous glucose, in-tramuscular Vitamultin-Calcium and Tonophosphan.July 3, 1943Injections as before.Has a bit of a throbbing head after majorconference yesterday and this morning.Slept only two hours lastnight and badly this afternoon! [.]Two p.m.to see the Führer.While I was treating him I discussedthe dietary arrangements with him.Führer asked me how this dietkitchen was going to work.I indicated that I have reached a (writ-ten!) agreement with Professor [Hans] Eppinger of Vienna that untilthe lady who is at this moment still directing the dietary depart-ment for Marshal Antonescu is free the best assistant after her is tocome up here, and make herself available at all hours.The kitchenitself will be ready in eight to ten days.I then turned to the subject of Dr Z[abel], who was previouslyhumble but has now begun behaving rather oddly towards me.Onlyrecently he insisted on making his own enquiries before issuing thediet, although I stated precisely what was lacking.And in doing sohe made the most detailed notes on the analyses and findings I hadcommissioned, which was unpleasant insofar as they did not onlyThis PDF version: © Parforce UK Ltd 2001Reporterrorsof Hitler s Doctor 115concern the Führer s epigastric problems, because I have always beencareful to handle everything under strictest secrecy, using assumednames, etcetera
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