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Before pushing on to the problem of Poland, Adolf Hitler had to solve “the problem of pep.” Of the two, it proved the trickier.

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The monster of Munich was not a morning person. “With constant anxiety and frequent mood episodes,” Nassir Ghaemi writes in A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness (Penguin Press, 352 pages, $27.95), “[Hitler] had developed, like Churchill, reversed sleep cycles. He stayed awake late into the night, talking and working inordinately, but slept each morning until noon.

Hitler wanted morning pep and evening sleep.

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Morell had just the thing.” Morell was Hitler’s physician, Theodor Morell, a peddler of “magic injections” to patrician Berlin. Just the thing was intravenous amphetamine. The era of pep on demand had dawned.

That was 1937. By 1941, “Hitler was constantly taking three kinds of psychoactive drugs: opiates, barbiturates, and amphetamines,” along with “intermittent anabolic steroids.” These elixirs certainly 'Madness' And Leadership, Hand In Hand : NPR TEV