How Hitler Fueled the Nazi Army With Meth

Today we reveal the dark side of WWII and the hyper-addictive drugs that fueled Hitler's Nazi army. Discover how this drug turned soldiers into relentless, tireless "zombies" and how it might have given birth to one of the Nazi's most famous war tactics, the Blitzkrieg.

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[乂]

It's incredible how drugs played such a pivotal role in WWII. The Blitzkrieg wouldn't have been the same without Pervitin

[ejon]

One doesn't get energy from stimulants, but rather borrows the energy from tomorrow.😱

[HappyGlmre]

Fun fact: Almost every country's military's airmen were on some sort of upper, this isn't unique to Germany.

[englewoodmusic]

You had me at the first 3 words in the title

[ralphlorenzperolino]

Nah man this is COD Zombies in real life now💀

[JohnWick-elyw]

Instead of sleeping they would continue going for days with no sleep covering more ground and going crazier. Just imagine the comedown though?? What goes up must come down

[legogreedo]

The Call of Duty zombies jokes write themselves

[cobro]

Here take these pills, but do not smoke 😂

[daveanderson]

There is a story, and I don't know whether it's true or not, that after Morrel left Berlin, Hitler's guards tore around the city, breaking into pharmacies to try and find supplies of medications for their boss

[walkerwoodard]

Dude experimental drugs on the fuher is CRAZY WORK

[tenzinalexander]

Simple History did an animation telling the story about that Finnish soldier oding and surviving, you gotta see it - its much more detailed and a freakin insane (and hilarious) story!

[Jayjay-qeum]

Pervitin became colloquially known among the German troops as "Stuka-Tablets" (Stuka-Tabletten) and "Herman-Goring-Pills" (Hermann-Goring-Pillen), as a snide allusion to Goring's widely-known addiction to drugs.

[fryguy]

I'm sure every soldier in that war found something that helped them ease their mind and their pain to get through this war whether it was alcohol marijuana or anything else caffeine speed you name it they took it this is just part of the war you never hear about until now

[DrRedpanda]

Thanks for updating another perfect video.
I never realized how big of a role drugs played in WWII. It seems like the zombie soldiers in some games aren't too far off from reality.
I also have a small history channel and I hope everyone can check it out and give me some feedback so I can improve myself.

[AdmiralKoneko]

So thats why i felt so funny after taking grandpas pills he brought from the war

[WokeismIsMarxism]

We still use stimulants with our stealth pilots during the Iraq war and you don't "trip" on pervitin, that's hallucinogens

[gipkucq]

This action really put the "blitz" in "blitzkrieg"!

[Daflux]

Don't do amphetamines sure you'll stay awake for days no problem but when you finally catch sleep you sleep for days you crash
And psychologically you will definitely go crazy
You need sleep
Stay healthy people

[Samuel]

it was not that effective how some think. lot of the soldiers were delirious from lack of sleep and some didnt sleep for days or slept like few hours (around 3) hours for months (if lucky) until getting killed

[UnseenHawk]

I didn’t know drugs played such a key role in the war. Learn something new everyday, huh.