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Why wasn't Goering's morphine withdrawal depicted?


It happened while he was incarcerated and it seems that it would have made a very interesting part of the movie, especially since it was true.

"Fredo, you're nothing to me now."

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That indeed would have been interesting. Apparently, after getting weaned off morphine, he lost about 30 lbs. and regained a lot of his mental faculties. Speer remarked in his memoirs that they could have used this renewed mental acuity to end the war a lot earlier, before it became such a monumental defeat for Germany. They were losing anyway. Hitler, however, did not care about this.

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The withdrawal was long before the trial, so would been a distraction to stretch the timeline of the story back a full year.

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Perhaps Warden Andrus should have set up.a health farm!

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