November
30, 1950
Hitler’s Personal Physician
Dies
Werner Haase, at age 50, was
German doctor who served as Adolf Hitler's personal physician, and advised him
on how to commit suicide; died of tuberculosis in the Soviet Union's Butyrka
prison.
On 29 April 1945, Hitler
expressed doubts about the cyanide capsules he had received through Heinrich
Himmler's SS. To verify the capsules'
potency, Haase was summoned to test one on Hitler's dog Blondi. A cyanide
capsule was crushed in the mouth of the dog, which died as a result. Hitler in
conversations with Haase during this timeframe, asked the doctor for a
recommended method of suicide. Haase instructed Hitler to bite down on a
cyanide capsule while shooting himself in the head.
Haase was made a Soviet
prisoner of war. In June 1945 he was charged with being "a personal doctor
of the former Reichschancellor of Germany, Hitler, and also treated other
leaders of Hitler's government and of the Nazi Party and members of Hitler's SS
guard.
Born in 1950?
Then
congratulations for turning 65 and entering the world of Medicare. If you
would like to know more about the maze we call Medicare …
