ADOLF Hitler was a “super-junkie” who was routinely injected with cocaine, methamphetamine and a heroin-like opiate called Eukodol, an author has claimed.

German writer Norman Ohler has penned a book called ‘Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich’ that recounts how the Nazi leader developed a drug addiction in the final year of the Second World War.

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Adolf Hitler was a ‘super-junkie’ who was routinely injected with cocaine, meth and opiates,, an author has claimedCredit: Getty Images
In one harrowing extract seen by the New York Post, Ohler describes how “Hitler’s veins were so wrecked” by late 1944 that even his personal physician, Dr Theo Morell, “could hardly penetrate them”.

When he finally did manage to break the skin, “it actually made a crunching noise.”

An extract from Dr Morell’s journal reads: “I cancelled injections today, to give the previous puncture holes a chance to heal.

“Left inside elbow good, right still has red dots (but not pustules), where injections were given.”

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‘Hitler’s veins were so wrecked’ by late 1944 that even his personal physician, Dr Theo Morell, ‘could hardly penetrate them’, the book claimsCredit: Getty Images
Ohler writes how Dr Morrell was a peculiar man who wore a “fantasy uniform based on his own designs,” blinked in the wrong directions (his eyelids closed from the bottom up) and was willing to inject just about anything into Hitler’s veins if it got the Fuhrer to smile.

Dr Morell slowly started adding ingredients to his daily injections — Hitler got his first taste of oxycodone before a big meeting with Benito Mussolini.

Hitler eventually began to depend on the “heightened feeling(s) that corresponded so perfectly to his own image of greatness — and that reality no longer supplied,” Ohler writes.

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Hitler’s wife Eva Braun insisted on following him drug for drug, to be ‘on the same wavelength as her lover’, which apparently led to some unhinged intimacyCredit: Getty
Hitler’s body was ravaged by his substance abuse and it is claimed he struggled to attend military meetings unless he was high.

But Hitler was far from the only Nazi drug addict.

According to Ohler, who studied hundreds of German federal archives, much of Nazi Germany — both soldiers and civilians — were high on Pervitin, a pill form of meth that promised to “integrate shirkers, malingerers, defeatists and whiners.”

First patented in 1937 by a Berlin pharmaceuticals factory, it quickly caught on with the public at large.