Evening star., 1947-08-18
Hiher's Doctor Hints
Poison in Food Nav
Have Hastened Death
ey the Assoe;oted Press

BY the Assoeioted Press
NEURNBERG, Germany, Aug. 18.
The record of an interrogation of
a German doctor on trial for his
life has disclosed hint that Adolf
Hitler may have been poisoned by
slow degrees in the last years of
| his life.
The document is in the files of
prosecutors who tried % Nazi S.
doctors for inhuman experimental
/ ton.
1t is a long -winded Nad-inspired
statement by DR.. Karl Brandt,
hawk-nosed SS man who was the
Fuehrer's personal physician for a
time and had entree to his circle
of intimates. t..
It tells how Hitler surrounded
himself with various women besides
Eva Braun, and nightly held court"
like something out Of the Arabian
Nights.
Implication Not Realized.
Brandt apparently didn't realize,
or preferred not to realize, the i'm
plications of his story.
He described sundry women who
had the run of Hitler's Obersalzburg
chalet above Berchtesgaden and
then casually commented:
I Hitler began to suffer more and
more from intestinal troubles. The
diet assistant, half-Jewess who
had been sent by Field Marshal
Antonescu 1ron Guard dictator OF
Rumania) had to be replaced"
Brandt doesn't know If there was
any connection but American at
torneys expressed astonishment that
Hitler, the greatest Jew hater of all
time, should trust a part jew to pre-
pare his food. Was his growing
stomach and intestinal trouble pure
ly a coincidence?
Woman Was Replaced.
In any event, the half-Jewess was
replaced" whatever that means.
The doctor said Miss Martiali'
was engaged as diet expert.
There was scarcely a day when
Hitler dis not stress the surprises
prepared for him by Miss Martial"
But Hitler wasn't quite as naive
as Brandt, apparently, for:
Hitler, who nearly always had
taken his meals alone, invited Miss
Martiali to his meals, pointing out
that she ought to taste herself OF
the dishes she prepared"
If he suspected attempts previ-
ously to poison him, that is just the
sort of thing a suspicious mind
would hit upon.
Brandt said this procedure became
a fixation with the Fuehrer to the
point where it cut his own Eva
Braun out of his company at meal
time. For instance:
That went so far that even in
Berlin Miss Braun had to recede
and take her meals alone while
Hitler took his lunch or supper to-
gether with Miss Martiali."
Led to Tension.
The doctor said this led to tension |
between the Fuehrer and his mis-
tress but never quite to an open
break. Hitler firmly insisted that
Miss Martial sit at his right at
his nightly tea gatherings. These
were attended by the same clique,
ruled pretty much by Eva and her
sister Gretl. -.-.
Occasionally, Brandt said, the
wife of Martin Bormann would
show up but she sat in corner and
never said much. Illuminating about |
Bermann:
Her husband would have for
hidden her any kind Of independ-
ence. So that's why she kept silent.
Hitler disliked Mrs. Rudolf Hess
the most. OF course, this was be-
fore Hess made his fantastic flight
to England. After that, she no
longer had entree.
Said Brandt:
Whenever there was an oppor-
tunity to pronounce a depreciating |
judgment Hitler did SO. He charac-
terized her as being the type of a |
'virago' ambitious to rule her hus-
band and thus practically doomed
to losing her 'womanliness'.
Brandt added as an afterthought
that she probably was too "'intelli-
gent and sober-minded" ever to get
close to Hitler, spiritually.