Stumpfegger was born in Munich in Bavaria. He initially worked as an assistant doctor under Professor Karl Gebhardt in the Sanatorium Hohenlychen, which specialised in sports accidents. As a result of this experience, he was part of the medical team, along with Gebhardt, at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin and the Winter Olympics of the same year in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. In 1945, Stumpfegger started working directly for Hitler in the Führerbunker in Berlin under the direction of Dr. Theodor Morell in its last days. He supplied Adolf Hitler with the cyanide pill with which Blondi was poisoned, and prepared the lethal toxin which Magda Goebbels administered to her own six childern. He left the Bunker with Martin Bormann and Artur Axmann. He killed himself with a cyanide capulse. Both his