Adolf Hitler was a 'super junkie', claims new book

Author Norman Ohler says the German fuhrer turned to drugs after Von Stauffenberg's assassination attempt in 1944

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A new book claims to have uncovered the true scale of Adolf Hitler's long-rumoured addiction to drugs.

"Germany, land of drugs, of escapism and worldweariness, had been looking for a super-junkie," Norman Ohler, the author of Blitzed: Drugs In Nazi Germany, writes. "And it had found him, in its darkest hour, in Adolf Hitler."

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