Theodor Morell Quotes
I’m sorry about how I treated you just now but my Nurse is a real Nazi.
Dr. Moreil was Adolph Hitler's personal physician for most of the Fuhrer's political life. He had a broad practice over the years which included Jewish Patients. He had treated the family of the young Jewish man for years and after 1933 the official anti-Semitism began and by 1938 was a large part of the Nazi perverse logic and political credo. Although Moreil was a member of the Nazi Party, he personally did not have the animus toward Jews that most other Nazis had. However when the young man came in for his checkup in 1938, the doctor was very cold and almost nasty. When his nurse left the room for him to do an examination of his private parts, he give this apology to the young patient whom he had been treating since he was a baby. The patient and his family got out of Germany shortly thereafter to escape the Holocaust and the family emigrated to America, where he relayed this experience to most people interested in Nazi Germany. Dr. Morell was interrogated by the Allied Intelligence officers as he was one of the people very close to Hitler. He had not been active politically nor had he participated in any of the horrible experiments that many German doctors had inflicted upon many in the concentration camps. So there were no war criminal charges filed against Moreil nor was he banned from many activities as the high-ranking Nazis were. The son of the Jewish patient was interviewed on PBS where he gave this account which his father had realayed many times.
Theodor Morell, apology to a Jewish patient for treating him very coldly during an office visit and checkup, 1938, quoted on PBS Antiques Road Show, January 16, 2017
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Referring to Richard Nixon's campaigning tactics in his first congressional campaign against Jerry Voorhees:
He was explaining one of the reasons for the development of Jewish humor--namely the amelioration of anti-Semitism.
Many people have believed that the Nazis introduced anti-Semitism into German society and politics. This quotation is one of the very many what show that anti-Semitism was rife in Germany before Hitler ever came to power—back to the Dark Ages. The Nazis recognized it and took advantage of it by ascribing all of Germany’s ills to the Jews, knowing full well that there was underlying public opinion that would make that a good tactic.
In 1933, there was still a some of anti-Semitism in America. The persecution of Jews in Germany was very clear at the time, just from the statements and writings by Adolf Hitler and other high level government officials and the laws that they were instituting and proposing. McFadden was one of the extreme isolationists in Congress at the time. They knew very little of the rest of the world, and believed the false assurances provided by German officials and American anti-Semitic, Fascist, pro Nazi partisans. McFadden’s statement was not only contrary to fact, but is among the most naïve of Congressional speeches.
When Cardozo was appointed to the Supreme Court, there was much anti Semitism in America and few Jews were made judges or magistrates. He was reviewing a case where the magistrate had been guilty of misconduct. The magistrate also happened to be Jewish. Cardozo thought that Jewish judges in particular should always maintain very high standards. This has been a common reaction of minorities who reach high level positions. They hold their fellow minority members to a higher standard so as to prove that the prejudice was undeserved. Of course there are good and bad in every group, but these first ethnic pioneers feel like they are carrying the burden for their entire minority group.
Theodor Gilbert Morell was a German doctor known for acting as Adolf Hitler's personal physician. Morell was well known in Germany for his unconventional treatments. He assisted Hitler daily in virtually everything he did for several years and was beside Hitler until the last stages of the Battle of Berlin. Morell was granted high awards by Hitler, and became a multi-millionaire from business deals with the Nazi government made possible by his status.
