Stunning New Details Emerge On Nazi Drug Use

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It turns out the Nazis were a bunch of drug addicts, including Adolph Hitler himself.A methamphetamine like drug called Pervitin, very similar  todays crystal meth was doled out by the millions to the Nazi soldiers on the front lines.A desperate attempt to keep them pumped up with energy and endurance.The drug has many side effects, one of which is violence.

The BBC reported that Adolf Hitler would receive methamphetamine injections daily from 1942 until his death in 1945 .

Huffington Post:

In an attempt to fuel its youthful but increasingly exhausted fighting force during World War II, the Nazis reportedly turned to addictive and potentially dangerous substances, including a form of what is known today as the illegal drug methamphetamine, currently a rising problem in Europe.

This narcotic-fueled side of the Nazi war effort is illuminated in letters sent home by Nazi soldiers such as Heinrich Boll, a famous German author awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1972.

While a soldier in his 20s, Boll wrote to his parents to beg for refills of a drug called Pervitin, an “alertness aid” that was actually an early form of crystal meth, according to German news outlet Der Spiegel. The drug was popularized in the 1930s by Berlin-based company Temmler Werke, and a Nazi officer then passed the compound — and its “miracle pill” reputation — along to the German front, which was soon flooded with millions of Pervitin tablets.

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