Chemistry offers a more compelling argument than psychology. Yes, Stalin, Hitler, and Saddam Hussein all had loving, smothering mothers and alcoholic, abusive fathers -- the usual Freudian culprits.
The rise and fall of Nazi Germany resemble the trajectory of a very, very bad drug trip.
Unlike the Harvard psychologists who analyzed Hitler but never met their "patient," Hitler’s drug-intake was confided to the diary of his personal physician, Dr. Theodor Morell, whose revelations can’t be dismissed as propaganda since Morell never intended his journal to be published.
According to Morell's daily diary, he injected Hitler three to four times a day with what he told his boss were only vitamins, but actually consisted of morphine, amphetamines, methamphetamine, cocaine, the muscle-building steroid testosterone, and barbiturates.
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