• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    18 days ago

    Hitler followed a vegetarian diet, not a vegan diet.

    He was also prescribed a meat-free diet by his doctor and it was useful for his public image to show himself as loving animals, so it’s highly debated how much of it might have been from some genuine moral conviction.
    Not least, because it would make no fucking sense when he’s slaughtering people in the millions at the same time.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler_and_vegetarianism

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        18 days ago

        Oh yeah, when I double-checked my information for the above comment, I also ran across this section, which is kind of wild (Hitler was clean-edge in some disciplines, while not at all in others):

        Hitler stopped drinking alcohol around the time he became vegetarian […] He was a non-smoker for most of his adult life, but smoked heavily in his youth (25 to 40 cigarettes a day); he eventually quit, calling the habit “a waste of money”. […] Hitler began using amphetamine occasionally after 1937 and became addicted to it in late 1942. Speer linked this use of amphetamine to Hitler’s increasingly erratic behaviour and inflexible decision-making (for example, rarely allowing military retreats).

        Prescribed 90 medications during the war years by his personal physician, Theodor Morell, Hitler took many pills each day for chronic stomach problems and other ailments. He regularly consumed amphetamine, barbiturates, opiates, and cocaine, as well as potassium bromide and atropa belladonna

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler#Health

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    18 days ago

    Can someone please forgive my ignorance and explain why is Mussolini upside down? Thanks

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    17 days ago

    They west certainly won’t, still salty (especially those Balts).
    “We have liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it”