RE: The Nazis were crack addicts!
September 11, 2015 at 11:08 am
(This post was last modified: September 11, 2015 at 11:09 am by Faith No More.)
(September 11, 2015 at 10:55 am)abaris Wrote: Not as far as I am aware. If you mean by accepted knowledge that they popped pervitin as if there was no tommorrow, I agree with you. There was even a nickname for that drug amongst the soldiers. "Panzerschokolade". But the reason for the early stages of the war being that successful is the fact that the allies still fought the war of 1918 whereas the Germans fought the war of 1940. Amphetamins are supposed to be uppers and would make you more reckless, but looking at the casualty numbers of the Polish as well as the French campaign, nothing points to that. In fact, for the day and age, the Germans were losing very few soldiers in these campaigns.
The methamphetamines we have today would make you more reckless, but what the Germans would have been taking would have been something more akin to Adderall than anything comparable to the uppers that make you reckless we have now. Amphetamines(not to be confused with methamphetamine) are a "get shit done" drug. They help you focus and accomplish tasks.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
