Reddit reviews Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

https://www.amazon.com/Blitzed-Drugs-Germany-Norman-Ohler/dp/0241256992

the entire Third Reich was permeated with drugs: cocaine, heroin, morphine and, most of all, methamphetamines, or crystal meth, used by everyone from factory workers to housewives, and crucial to troops' resilience - even partly explaining German victory in 1940. The promiscuous use of drugs at the very highest levels also impaired and confused decision-making, with Hitler and his entourage taking refuge in potentially lethal cocktails of stimulants administered by the physician Dr Morell

Is the book it's a pretty good read and funny because of how fucked up they got

Yeah, interestingly the same chemist who re-synthesized heroin discovered aspirin a few days later. The book is called 'Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich.' So far, I like it, but the author is very anti-drug, it seems. I generally dislike writers that personify drugs. Meth isn't 'evil.' It's a chemical, it's inanimate, it can't be evil. But the research is really good.

https://www.amazon.com/Blitzed-Drugs-Germany-Norman-Ohler/dp/0241256992/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1502138418&sr=8-2&keywords=blitzed

It was mentioned at the same time as Blitzed was a big thing here on reddit. But a quick google for isis and amphetamine brings lots of articles captagon.

A drug that is critiqued to be mild but I believe its mildness help confuse people with newfound but not inhuman courage through their fate.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/turkey-seizes-11-million-captagon-amphetamine-pills-used-by-isis-fighters-to-keep-themselves-awake-a6744366.html
https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/3688057/captagon-isis-drug-chemical-courage-sleep-disorders-terrorists/

edit: But the world of amphetamine and other drug usage in war is greatly interesting, it almost makes war more believable (and horrifying) if you knew people we're freaking jacked and killer each others.

Hmm, typically most point to "Blitzed" though I never have read that book and it seems to get slammed for going a bit 'alternative' on the matter of history.

I'd say combat drugs used by German units was quite widespread and notable, and was key for the Germans advancing as much as they did without really stopping - leading to disorganisation amongst the Allies as throughout WW2 as they themselves typically only used combat drugs in terms of airforce pilots or medicines and so forth, whereas the Germans had used it quite extensively throughout its armed forces. Panzerschokolade and Stuka tablets are rather notable nicknames for these stimulants.

An article on such: http://www.spiegel.de/international/the-nazi-death-machine-hitler-s-drugged-soldiers-a-354606.html

Corroborating Wiki article tidbits:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methamphetamine#History,_society,_and_culture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_and_culture_of_substituted_amphetamines#Military_use

Edit: Change Blitz into Blitzed, the proper book name and gave a link to it.

https://www.amazon.ca/Blitzed-Drugs-Germany-Norman-Ohler/dp/0241256992

tachas y perico...literal. Hay un libro de eso, de cómo los nazis andaban drogadísimos todo el rato. Edit: Este merengues

Worth a read

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blitzed-Drugs-Germany-Norman-Ohler/dp/0241256992

Lol, maybe for those involved in the Manhattan Project, perhaps… Although Hitler took daily injections of meth, cocaine, and opiates according to a new book called Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany.

Mad amounts of amphetamines. As was most of the Third Reich.

There is a reason why the combination of amphetamines and LSD lead to a 'bad trip'. One loosens awareness, the other contracts it.