by agonies of apprehension, aboard his Focke-Wulf for the
long flight to Italy. Hitler’s porcine physician, Morell, told
Göring that his patient had had little sleep despite injections of
various morphine substitutes.
In the [FW ] Condor [recorded Morell]
Reichsmarschall Göring ventured to give me a few
last-minute tips. “You must give him Euflat,” he
said.* “That once helped me a lot.” “Yes, two tablets
three times a day: I’m doing it already.” “But you’ve
got to keep doing it over a long period. I took them
for eighteen months. And then you must give him
Luizym too!”
“We’re already doing that!”As Hitler met Mussolini in northern Italy, news came that the
Allies were raining bombs on Rome. He parted from Mussolini
convinced that the Italians for all their protestations to the
contrary were on the brink of defecting.
“I can only keep saying,” Milch told Göring a few days ear-
lier, “ is going to be a year of clenched teeth but in
things are going to change dramatically. And we’re going to see
the first of these changes this autumn.”
Hitler wanted those changes now. “You can only smash
terror with terror,” he snarled at Göring and his generals on
July , . “You’ve got to strike back! Anything else is non-
sense.” Scornful of Göring’s latest plans for small-scale intruder
raids against RAF airfields, Hitler snorted, “You can count
yourself lucky if you find London!” “The British will stop,” he
- Göring got the names wrong initially, but Dr. von Ondarza corrected him.
Euflat was a proprietary indigestion tablet commonly prescribed against a
bloated abdomen. Luizym is a proprietary enzyme tablet to help break down
cellulose and carbohydrates in the stomach. David Irving, Adolf Hitler:
The Medical Diaries (London & New York, ).