Had always hear rumors on that, as well as the possible use of testosterone to make some SS troops more aggressive and such, but this details the reality of it, and makes sense as to how blitzkrieg going to be far more effective if your people don’t actually sleep. Similar was used by US in WWII but not where at the scale of the Nazi’s, and of course there’s the modern “greenies” but I will say no more of that:
How Methamphetamine Became a Key Part of Nazi Military Strategy
In The Art of War, Sun Tzu wrote that speed is “the essence of war.” While he of course did not have amphetamines in mind, he would no doubt have been impressed by their powerful war-facilitating psychoactive effects. Amphetamines—often called “pep pills,” “go pills,” “uppers” or “speed”—are a group of synthetic drugs that stimulate the central nervous system, reducing fatigue and appetite and increasing wakefulness and a sense of well-being. The quintessential drug of the modern industrial age, amphetamines arrived relatively late in the history of mind-altering substances—commercialized just in time for mass consumption during World War II by the leading industrial powers. That war was not only the most destructive war in human history but also the most pharmacologically enhanced. It was literally sped up by speed.
Talk about an idea that wasn’t completely thought through!
You have to come down eventually, you can stay high forever, but your forever will be measured in weeks.
You can and will develop psychosis if you take enough over a sustained period. Nothing like sitting on an OP with someone who’s seeing and hearing things that aren’t there.
You don’t have an appetite, so your body is slowly running out of fuel. Not a good thing on the Russian front.
There’s just too many down sides to it although tempting you have to day no.
Few people contemplate the down side of their new “great idea.” Meanwhile the Russians were trying to cross breed apes and humans to build stronger soldiers, not joking.
I still want to meet the ladies that agreed to being inseminated by Apes. Were they upset when they found out they got Turkey baster and no flowers. Candy and a movie?
Enough meth and you start hallucinating that’s why these guys have “crank bug” skin sores, they believe there are bugs burrowing under their skin.
Do you really want to share a foxhole with that guy?
Man, of all the shit details to be assigned to as a Soviet conscript….
“Comrade Private Gopnikovitch today you will be reporting to Comrade Colonel Kuznetsov… here is some vodka you will need to drink a lot of it to accomplish what he needs you to do….”
The algorithm sent me this. I was previously aware of the meth use by Germans and Japanese in WW2 but was surprised by “The Pentagon issued anywhere between 250 million to 500 million Benzedrine tablets to Allied troops.” Is that accurate?
I can’t confirm this but, I served 17ks from the Fulda Gap 81-89.
I was told we had speed available if it was needed.
At the time I was curious of we would last long enough to need it. Since Ukraine, I’m totally rethinking how that would have went down.
I’m not so sure it would have been like shi+ through a goose after all.
That meth was made in a German lab and probably was at a level of purity that would have made Heisenberg jealous, nothing like the stuff on the street today cooked up by Bubba in a trailer park methlab with ingredients picked up from the local hardware store.
And there are women that when told by the authorities that they would be ravaged by a wild Great Ape, would go home to coordinate a nice lingerie outfit for the festivities.
Most are White, slightly overweight and tend to work in nursing, but what the hey??
During World War II, soldiers used amphetamine to help them stay awake, have mental focus, and prevent fatigue.By 1945, estimates show more than 13 million tablets of amphetamine were produced a month in the United States.
The great duel at the 36 olympics between Jesses Owens and Luz Long was apparently also a battle between amphetamine (Benzedrine) and methamphetamine (Pervitin). Honestly, they should probably allow drugs now. I would love to see what they would develop without these stupid rules.