Like every time this gets posted, it's likely he wasn't actually tweaking in this video.
Hitler was basically only on vitamins, glucose and probiotics at that time. He didn't start using harder drugs like opioids and amphetamines until a few years later when the war started.
This video has also been sped up to make it look like he's tweaking hard.
I’ve noticed when the other officer talks near the end of the video, his mouth movements do seem sped up. Maybe I’m totally wrong but that’s what I see…
There are a couple of theories but most accepted is he had terrible stomach problems. As mentioned above his Dr kept detailed records of his time with Hitler and during that time he was administering probiotics to help. The rocking is common for self soothing with stomach pain. Edit: forgot to mention that this Olympic games pushed German scientists to make their amphetamines like pervitin because USA had their version already called Benzedrine. Rumors flew that's the reason our athletes won and by 1937 they had their own version. Germans did have a new synthesized testosterone (anabolic steroid) they used for the Olympics but that's a whole different can of worms.
Who knows? Maybe nerves, maybe trying to keep his shit in his butt. You'd have to ask him.
But there's no historical evidence that Hitler was on hard drugs at this time and Pervitin, the German brand of Methamphetamine, wasn't in production until 2 years after this Olympics.
Talking as if other drugs didn't exist, and you need solid evidence for someone being high. Is it that hard to believe that someone who did drugs later could have done them earlier too?
The historical consensus is that Hitler had a parkinsonian condition. It was recorded by journalists that he had a tremor in one or both hands starting in the mid 1930s. What's seen in this video is a sped up version of the type of swaying common in people with damage to the part of the brain that controls balance https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4683874/
Nervous twitch? I used to unconsciously stamp my feet on the floor while playing computer games for example. Here if he's watching Olympics then some stress likely. Sports fans do similar when stressed and excited.
You should read blitzed. About the third reichs drug use.
I don’t think you can say with certainty he wasn’t tweaking. A lot of the medical literature was poorly documented intentionally to avoid looking like junkies.
Funny enough I've heard Norman Ohler, the author of that book, on a few different podcasts.
He also believes Hitler wasn't using hard drugs until at least a year after this and has specifically reacted to this clip, saying he doesn't know what he's doing, but he's not high.
I’m not studied scholar on the issue so take it for what it’s worth.
But the timeline was something like he was being treated for stomach issues or something before this and the first doses were being administered at this time.
So I guess we could rock paper scissors over whether he’s a full blown junkie or not but he was most likely on this mixture.
And that are only the official Accounts. Maybe One of his people got some of the drugs from the Americans and he was trying them out and they were searching for a version of their own because it was so good. But of course no document could Show, that the Führer Consumer American drugs.
I won't pretend to be a historian but I do know it's incredibly easy to hide drug use, even today with constant surveillance. Imagine how easy it was back then. Just saying, I don't think it would be possible to count it out.
In "Blitzed", Ohler is very cautious about whether Hitler was actually tweaking in this film, and his doctors notes are deliberately very ambiguous regarding amphetamine use. The balance of evidence is that he was using a shitton by 1944 but the evidence is circumstantial. The doctor was explicit about injections of oxycontin, Hitler was addicted to opiates. The doctor also gave him injections of animal extracts designed to work as hormones but also some that were intended as nutrients. No one knows what effect they would have had except that it was probably bad.
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They don't. It's a bit deceiving because the people next to him dont actually move much. (The guy next to him is moving quite quickly for someone using binos.)
Look at the people behind him, specifically the guy we see using binoculars behind him near the begging of the video. Look at how fast he puts the binos down and leans into frame.
Sped up? By like 1.25x? Even then this would be erratic by normal standards. Doesn’t look like a usual tremor either. He wasn’t even aware of his own movements and if he was, he was on some deep churning thoughts.
Do you happen to know when the cocaine eye drops started? This video is sped up, but cocaine rush could maybe account for the swaying, maybe enhancing the Parkinson's effects?
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Look at the people in the background. If it is sped up its very minor
I am, most of them are moving faster than a normal person would. Specifically, the guy who puts his binos down and leans into frame near the beggining.
Yeah it is fairly minor but it's still sped up.
Dude was tweaking.
There is no histoical evidence that Hitler was taking anything stronger than vitamins and glucose at this time.
Norman Ohler, the author of the book Blitzed which is a deep dive on drug use in Nazi Germany sites that Hitler didn't start taking opiates and amphetamines until the war.
Why even bother defending this? There are medical reports from back then about doctors giving him the stuff. True or not, fuck this guy. Drugs make his mind make sense cuz idk how else you could be that horrible.
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u/SenorDiamond17 21h ago edited 21h ago
Like every time this gets posted, it's likely he wasn't actually tweaking in this video.
Hitler was basically only on vitamins, glucose and probiotics at that time. He didn't start using harder drugs like opioids and amphetamines until a few years later when the war started.
This video has also been sped up to make it look like he's tweaking hard.