Post by Logan on Mar 13, 2017 3:21:32 GMT -6
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: www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Hitler-kept-Nazi-soldiers-high-on-crystal-meth-10992378.php
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: www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Hitler-kept-Nazi-soldiers-high-on-crystal-meth-10992378.php