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Since 1942, Adolf Hitler received daily injections of methamphetamine from his personal physician. The Führer was also familiar with coc aine.
when it came to fighting their Blitzkrieg, they had no qualms about pumping their soldiers full of drugs and alcohol. Speed was the drug of choice, but many others became addicted to morphine and alcohol.
a pill code-named D-IX. It contained five milligrams of coc aine, three milligrams of Pervitin and five milligrams of Eukodal (a morphine-based painkiller).
Nowadays, a drug dealer caught with this potent a drug would be sent to prison. At the time, however, the drug was tested on crew members working on the navy's smallest submarines, known as the "Seal" and the "Beaver."
Many of the Wehrmacht's soldiers were high on Pervitin when they went into battle, especially against Poland and France -- in a Blitzkrieg fueled by speed.
The German military was supplied with millions of methamphetamine tablets during the first half of 1940.
The drugs were part of a plan to help pilots, sailors and infantry troops become capable of superhuman performance.
The military leadership liberally dispensed such stimulants, but also alcohol and opiates, as long as it believed drugging and intoxicating troops could help it achieve victory over the Allies. But the Nazis were less than diligent in monitoring side-effects like drug addiction and a decline in moral standards.
In Hitler's Wehrmacht, methamphetamine tablets branded as Pervitin were liberally distributed to German fighting troops throughout the War. Amphetamines are "power drugs" that reduce fatigue, heighten aggression, and diminish human warmth and empathy.
After it was first introduced into the market in 1938, Pervitin, a methamphetamine drug newly developed by the Berlin-based Temmler pharmaceutical company, quickly became a top seller among the German civilian population.
During the short period between April and July of 1940, more than 35 million tablets of Pervitin and Isophan (a slightly modified version produced by the Knoll pharmaceutical company) were shipped to the German army and air force.
Four times as many military doctors were addicted to morphine by 1945 than at the beginning of the war.
Franz Wertheim, a medical officer who was sent to a small village near the Western Wall on May 10, 1940, wrote the following account: "To help pass the time, we doctors experimented on ourselves. We would begin the day by drinking a water glass of cognac and taking two injections of morphine. We found coc aine to be useful at midday, and in the evening we would occasionally take Hyoskin," an alkaloid derived from some varieties of the nightshade plant that is used as a medication. Wertheim adds: "As a result, we were not always fully in command of our senses."
It was hoped the drug would give soldiers almost unlimited fighting powers at a time when the German armies were in retreat.
Nazi researchers used concentration camp inmates to test a coc aine-based "wonder drug" they hoped would enhance the performance of German troops, it was reported yesterday.
Prisoners at Sachsenhausen who were given the drug, code-named D-IX, were forced to march in circles carrying 20kg packs. They were able to march 55 miles without resting.
The German news magazine Focus quoted an eye-witness report by a prisoner who wrote: "At first the members of the punishment battalion whistled and sang songs. [But] most of them had collapsed after the first 24 hours."
The pills contained a mix of coc aine, the amphetamine pervitin and a morphine-related painkiller
Originally posted by counterterrorist
HITLER, THE STONED JUNKIE
Hitler, the stoned junkie had a daily habit. So did much of his officers. No wonder they went over the top with that occult stuff BECAUSE they THOUGHT it was REAL!
What are you implying by this, of course the occult stuff was real, they did it because it was real, not because they were on drugs,
Originally posted by counterterrorist
WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF THE ARTICLE? ... you've confined your insights into defending Hitler, rather than being astonished he made the Nazi's into speedfreaks and you've in your responsed ignored the speed addiction of the German Army, the Nazis, the Wehrmact, the SS, the German military doctors and the German civilians. You're confining and defining yourself by defending Hitler.
It seems that some people may be emotionally attached to defending Hitler, which I am not. People who make excuses for Hitler are called 'apologists'.
Originally posted by counterterrorist
How you can say Hitler wasn't interested in the occult when so many of his direct subordinates researched and promoted the occult and the religion of Hitler as the messiah -- how much more interested in the occult can someone be that to proclaim himself God, don't you think?
Originally posted by counterterrorist
Also, I don't see why you disagree with me, at all. After all, I am simply quoting Der Spiegal ...your real beef is with them, not with me. And with the other publications and researchers I've url-ed in the article.
Originally posted by counterterrorist
If fact, some of the researchers quoted that Hitler's speed and morphine and coc aine addictions may have brought on his Parkinson's disease and other diseases. As I say, the reason I supply the urls is for people who wish to find out the truth of the matter, rather than just express opinions.
Originally posted by counterterrorist
I don't see how it's fruitful to separate Hitler from the men who followed his orders and from their Nazi and SS and Wehrmacht interests and the Holocaust HITLER DICTATED...what is the purpose in pretending Hitler did not know of the Holocaust, which many people do? Or, pretending Hitler was not a speed freak and drug addict ... particularly in the face of documentation.
Hitler never proclaimed himself god though, not even the son of god, he was the saviour or messiah of Germany, not the messiah of the judeo-christian peoples.
That is not a defence of Hitler it is a willingness to see beyond the mainstream perception of Hitler.
The article was unworthy of note which is why I didn't respond to it all.
It was poorly researched and poorly written, it has no reference to sources and seems wholly based on theory.
I am not required to support my opinions with a source. I am not even sure how that would be even physically possible
Show me one independent reference from someone who knew Hitler that details this drug addiction, there are thousands of these accounts, and I will withdraw my comments. Otherwise, my knowledge of Hitler far out-weighs yours and I do not think he was an addict, though I concede he was receiving large quantities of medications in the years proceeding his death.
Since 1942, Adolf Hitler received daily injections of methamphetamine from his personal physician. The Führer was also familiar with coc aine.
How you can say Hitler wasn't interested in the occult when so many of his direct subordinates researched and promoted the occult and the religion of Hitler as the messiah -- how much more interested in the occult can someone be that to proclaim himself God, don't you think?
Hitler did indeed create his own religion or at least attempted to, based upon what he called 'positive christianity' and the belief in a saviour. And yes, he did believe that he was Germany's saviour and so did his followers in a lesser way. Had nothing to do with occultism though, it combined the major German faiths of Protestantism (lutherism) and Roman Catholicism - are they occult in your book too?
nice explanation, but you do have to admit something, humans are different then other animals
i believe they call it free will, or whatever
we think differently, and thinking is mystical in its own right,
but what i thought was that you were implying that there is nothing but what science can explain, that was the mindset when i wrote the previous post.
about the animals thing, i thought that they were driven by instinct, while humans are capable of driving themselves (for the most part)
also i dont really believe in good and evil, i think they are just perspectives made for the benefit of our species, then abused by society
have you ever seen the movie "the mist", it shows a great view of human nature and about how stupid most of us are,