Posted on 02/25/2017 8:47:49 PM PST by nickcarraway
When we think of Adolf Hitler, we tend to imagine him as the raging, crowd-inciting dictator. But “Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich” paints a very different picture, one of a full-on junkie who could barely show up for military meetings without his regular injections of cocaine, methamphetamine and opiates. In one of the book’s most harrowing scenes, author Norman Ohler describes how “Hitler’s veins were so wrecked” by late 1944 that even his personal physician “could hardly penetrate them.”
When he finally did manage to break the skin, “it actually made a crunching noise.”
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Old news. Germans invented crystal meth and many in the Blitzkreiging armies became hooked on meth.
No wonder he is Obama’s idol....
Hitler was a druggie? What a disappointment! Seemed like such a nice guy!
Pervitin, I believe it was called.
Exactly. It’s not exactly new news. It’s well documented.
It was all part of the “Nazi Super-Soldier” program. Nazi scientists claimed it boosted alertness and endurance.
Dope, vegetarian, way into homosexuality, street thugs, the dictatorship impulse.... The reich reminds me of a political movement, but not ours.
Hitler himself was a big time drug user. Used a cocktail of drugs including cocaine.
Why dont historians give it a rest? Why keep searching for a specific reason for his actions.
Today’s Jihadis do the same thing.
The low level “gateway” drug is Khat.
Then they graduate to a mixture of Zolan (Xanax) with various speeders.
I remember reading one report of a Jihadi who thought enemy tanks were birds that he could kill with his sword.
Do you have any proof he said that?
Curious that the reporter believes these two aspects are mutually exclusive. In reality, there's a lot already commonly known about the Nazis that would make the American left retool their arsenal of epithets; they were in effect a bunch of left wing drug fueled sexual deviants that more closely mirror liberals than anyone else.
Not the first art major on drugs.
The usual side effects of drug addiction would explain certain things, like the “Don’t wake Der Fuhrer, news of the Allied landings in Normandy can wait!” incident.
‘D-Day Through German Eyes’ volumes 1&2 has stories about landsers and SS receiving from their medics combo morphine/amphetamine tablets. The Germans say the combination made it possible to handle wounds and exhaustion. Of course when they crashed they needed more.
It might be a reason the SS 1st panzer division and the youngsters, some 16-18 were such ruthless little ****s. The Canadians would run over their bodies with tanks to make sure they didn’t jump with panzerfausts or magnetic mines.
Meth reduces the ability and increases the willingness to do evil.
I thought the same thing. Also, when Karl Wolff was called back to meet Himmler and Hitler. Himmler and others wanted to have Wolff executed right then, because they knew he was going to surrender to the Allies. Hitler was out of it (according to Wolff), and he let Wolff return to command. (Where he greatly aided the Allies by surrendering)
Sounds like JFK
Reduces the ability to resist and increases the tendency to do evil.
Others claim that the Japanese invented crystal meth and fed it to the kamikaze pilots.
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