[Daily Mail June 2013]Nazis on narcotics: How Hitler's henchmen stayed alert during war by taking cr

dailymail ^ | 1 June 2013 | Steve Robson

[Berlin_Freeper]

Invading country after country at lightning speed, Hitler's army had Europe terrified during World War Two.

But, as a Nazi soldier's letter has revealed, it wasn't just the Fuhrer's fiery rhetoric which had his troops wired.

Military doctors were handing out millions of pills to the troops known as Pervitin.

The label claimed it was an 'alertness aid' which should be taken 'to maintain wakefulness'. We know it today as methamphetamine, or more commonly, crystal meth.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Many armies used some variation of the substance for the same purpose. Many still do.

[Dagnabitt]

It was Meth that allowed them to rise up out of the snow in Norway.

[EEGator]

“Go” pills.

[nascarnation]

Our guys used benzedrine, right?
I know the guys fighting in N. Africa did.

[RoosterRedux]

U.S. and Brits used that and dexedrine.

[autumnraine]

Wasn’t Hitler a meth head too?

[research99]

Troops were given pep pills before they were ordered to storm the beaches at Normandy.

[KarlInOhio]

It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of the country as a consequence. Everybody is using coffee; this must be prevented. His Majesty was brought up on beer, and so were both his ancestors and officers. Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war. - Frederick the Great

[Red Badger]

All armies have done it...................

[Red Badger]

FRED is dead...................

[GeronL]

Have you ever seen anyone on crystal meth who was actually aware of what was around them, that their minds wasn’t making up??

[OneWingedShark]

Excellent quote — Thanks for sharing it.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“Have you ever seen anyone on crystal meth who was actually aware of what was around them, that their minds wasn’t making up??”

Depends on the dosage! Just a little dab’ll do ya!

[Pontiac]

Have you ever seen anyone on crystal meth who was actually aware of what was around them, that their minds wasn’t making up??

You can’t really compare users of oral ingested methamphetamine and smoked Crystal Meth.

The effects on the mind and body are worlds apart.

[loungitude]

Meth is not a narcotic. Faulty writing.

[jmacusa]

Actually it was cocaine Hitler was given by his quack doctor Theo Morell. Cocaine was well established in Europe for sometime prior to WW2.

[NonValueAdded]

Soldiers then, truckers now ... what’s the diff?

[bakeneko]

“Dead Snow”; great campy movie.

I loved watching those Norway teens get their Viking on.

[Telepathic Intruder]

The Soviet Chekas in fact contained a lot of cocaine addicts in order to help desensitize them to the atrocities they were committing.