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Theodor Gilbert Morell was a German doctor known for acting as Adolf Hitler's personal physician. Morell was well known in Germany for his unconventional treatments. He assisted Hitler daily in virtually everything he did for several years and was beside Hitler until the last stages of the Battle of Berlin.

✵ 22. July 1886 – 26. May 1948
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Famous Theodor Morell Quotes

“Hitler would go as white as a sheet and tightly clench his jaws, while his eyes would dilate. Everyone in his entourage would get panicky because these fits were always followed by an order to dismiss or to execute somebody.”

Theodor Morell

"Hitler had split personality," first printed Tuesday, May 22, 1945.

“Take off that uniform and go back to being the doctor of Kurfurstendamm!”

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Adolf Hitler, to Morell, in the final days of the war.

“You think I am crazy. You will try to give me morphine. Get out of here; you are sacked. Get that medical uniform off. Go home and act as if you had never had anything to do with me.”

Theodor Morell

Adolf Hitler, to Morell, in the final days of the war.

“A gross but deflated old man, of cringing manners, inarticulate in speech and with the hygiene habits of a pig, and could not conceive how a man so utterly devoid of self respect could ever have been selected as a personal physician by anyone who had even a limited possibility of choice.”

Theodor Morell

Hugh Trevor-Roper interviewed Morell in 1945.

“What luck I had to meet Morell. He has saved my life.”

Theodor Morell

Adolf Hitler.

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