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TexasTowelie

(112,349 posts)
Sat Mar 11, 2017, 09:46 AM Mar 2017

Hitler kept Nazi soldiers high on crystal meth during WW2

In the 1930s, a smitten German could buy his fraulein boxed chocolates spiked with methamphetamine. When Germany invaded France in 1940, its soldiers marched on Pervitin, an early form of crystal meth, which kept them perked for the lightning speed of Blitzkrieg warfare.

On the verge of destroying the British forces at Dunkirk, Hermann Göring, the head of the air force, was zonked on morphine when he had a eureka moment. "The world lay at his feet, and in his blissfully opium-soaked brain he decided that the glorious victory over the Allies should under no circumstances be left to the arrogant leaders of the army," writes Norman Ohler in "Blitzed," his fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich.

Weather interfered, the planes stayed put, and the army watched as the British slipped away.

Reading "Blitzed," one gets the impression that the Germans were consuming Pervitin like Goldfish crackers or Skittles, "to help with childbirth, to fight seasickness, vertigo, hay fever, schizophrenia, anxiety neuroses, depressions, low drive, disturbances of the brain - wherever the German hurt, the blue, white, and red tube was at the ready."

During the waning days of the war, the Nazis developed cocaine chewing gum for young sailors to use while piloting single-man submarines on suicide missions.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Hitler-kept-Nazi-soldiers-high-on-crystal-meth-10992378.php

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Hitler kept Nazi soldiers high on crystal meth during WW2 (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2017 OP
ISIS apparently dies the same thing with their soldiers underpants Mar 2017 #1
Nice typo! Ron Obvious Mar 2017 #3
Funny. Nice catch. underpants Mar 2017 #5
Just watched a crappy movie on Directv cilla4progress Mar 2017 #2
I seem to recall we did the same thing mitch96 Mar 2017 #4

underpants

(182,863 posts)
1. ISIS apparently dies the same thing with their soldiers
Sat Mar 11, 2017, 09:52 AM
Mar 2017

I can't recall the name of the drug but they are wired to stay fighting. I've said from the beginning that ISIS is simply a waiting game - they will exhaust themselves - Trump will probably get credit for simply being there when the clock runs out on them.

cilla4progress

(24,760 posts)
2. Just watched a crappy movie on Directv
Sat Mar 11, 2017, 09:53 AM
Mar 2017

Last night, Allied. Indeed they showed drug use. Snorting. Can't recall which side. Maybe Brits?

mitch96

(13,923 posts)
4. I seem to recall we did the same thing
Sat Mar 11, 2017, 10:56 AM
Mar 2017

I remember reading about B52 bomber pilots on patrol given amphetamine to maintain alertness.
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