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[Daily Mail June 2013]Nazis on narcotics: How Hitler's henchmen stayed alert during war by taking cr
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| 1 June 2013
| Steve Robson
Posted on 07/05/2014 12:03:01 PM PDT by 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.
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Many armies used some variation of the substance for the same purpose. Many still do.
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posted on
07/05/2014 12:04:50 PM PDT
by
Wyrd bið ful aræd
(Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo et mundabor, Lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
It was Meth that allowed them to rise up out of the snow in Norway.
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posted on
07/05/2014 12:04:56 PM PDT
by
Dagnabitt
(Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
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posted on
07/05/2014 12:05:50 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: Berlin_Freeper
Our guys used benzedrine, right?
I know the guys fighting in N. Africa did.
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posted on
07/05/2014 12:05:52 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
To: nascarnation
U.S. and Brits used that and dexedrine.
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posted on
07/05/2014 12:08:03 PM PDT
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RoosterRedux
(Obama: Race is his cover...jihad is his game.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
Wasn’t Hitler a meth head too?
To: RoosterRedux
Troops were given pep pills before they were ordered to storm the beaches at Normandy.
To: Berlin_Freeper
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
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posted on
07/05/2014 12:16:07 PM PDT
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KarlInOhio
(The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
All armies have done it...................
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posted on
07/05/2014 12:17:32 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
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To: KarlInOhio
FRED is dead...................
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posted on
07/05/2014 12:19:11 PM PDT
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Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
Have you ever seen anyone on crystal meth who was actually aware of what was around them, that their minds wasn’t making up??
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posted on
07/05/2014 12:20:29 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: KarlInOhio
Excellent quote — Thanks for sharing it.
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posted on
07/05/2014 12:21:01 PM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: GeronL
“Have you ever seen anyone on crystal meth who was actually aware of what was around them, that their minds wasnt making up??”
Depends on the dosage! Just a little dab’ll do ya!
To: GeronL
Have you ever seen anyone on crystal meth who was actually aware of what was around them, that their minds wasnt making up?? You cant really compare users of oral ingested methamphetamine and smoked Crystal Meth.
The effects on the mind and body are worlds apart.
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posted on
07/05/2014 12:38:34 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
Meth is not a narcotic. Faulty writing.
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posted on
07/05/2014 12:54:42 PM PDT
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loungitude
(The truth hurts.)
To: autumnraine
Actually it was cocaine Hitler was given by his quack doctor Theo Morell. Cocaine was well established in Europe for sometime prior to WW2.
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posted on
07/05/2014 1:15:14 PM PDT
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jmacusa
To: Berlin_Freeper
Soldiers then, truckers now ... what’s the diff?
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posted on
07/05/2014 1:20:57 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("The Arab Spring is over. Welcome to the Jihadi Spring." Jonah Goldberg)
To: Dagnabitt
“Dead Snow”; great campy movie.
I loved watching those Norway teens get their Viking on.
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posted on
07/05/2014 1:32:44 PM PDT
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bakeneko
To: Berlin_Freeper
The Soviet Chekas in fact contained a lot of cocaine addicts in order to help desensitize them to the atrocities they were committing.
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posted on
07/05/2014 1:34:51 PM PDT
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Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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