Oddbean new post about login | logout https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/07/518986612/author-says-hitler-was-blitzed-on-cocaine-and-opiates-during-the-war Opiates and cocaine. Sounds bad but (apparently I need to defend Hitler and prove my critics totally right) keep in mind that we took some time to really understand how bad all these drugs were. Sigmund Freud died in 1939 right before he started using and before he realized how dangerous it was and recanted he wrote a book called "on cocaine" which basically talks about how much he loved cocaine. Also, "German supersoldier serum" was just methamphetamine, which powered the long journeys of the blitzkrieg. It wasn't until much later that it was really appreciated how dangerous drugs are. https://time.com/5752114/nazi-military-drugs/
@sj_zero @lain@lain.com @🌲-alist There is a book called "Blitzed." The meth was an effective secret weapon in Poland and France. Both nations expected to counterattack when the invading Nazis had to rest. But they didn't rest, they just took more meth and kept going! Apparently this worked for up to 48 hours after which the soldier would become useless. The Americans, Japanese, and Russians also used various amphetamines, and the US military still does. There is now Provigil as an alternative.