I can't believe you guys are giving her a hard time for using a figure of speech.
I think Hitler may have been brilliant, in the beginning. It's quite possible he fried his brain with drugs.
Hitler was ill, although what that illness was is a subject of serious debate.
http://en.allexperts.com/q/20th-Century-History-3242/Hitler-mental-illness-nervous.htmThat there was something wrong with him is not the question, by the end of the war, he had a visible palsy, noticeable even in the film of that time.
I have not been able to find any proof that he did more than mild experimentation with drugs. Correction, he did take the Speed tablets offered to the German troops, Starting in 1942.
"From 1942, the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler received daily injections of methamphetamine from his personal physician, Dr Theodor Morell. The F?hrer was also familiar with cocaine. Hitler's ailments have been attributed to everything from tertiary syphilis to Parkinson's disease. But many of The F?hrer's clinical signs and symptoms may have been caused by his exotic drug regimen.
In Hitler's Wehrmacht, methamphetamine tablets branded as Pervitin were liberally distributed to German fighting troops throughout the War. Amphetamines are "power drugs" that reduce fatigue, heighten aggression, and diminish human warmth and empathy. "
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http://amphetamines.com/adolf-hitler.html)
Even a regular dose of speed wouldn't account for all of the problems he had in the last part of the war.