#4318836 - 12/10/16 03:49 PM
Nazi on drugs - how might it have affected air combat?
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After reading below I wonder just how such a prolonged use would have affected the pilots. My impression is that they were exhausted most of the time.
Norman Ohler, the author of “Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany.” Credit
“Blitzed.” Through interviews and documents that hadn’t been carefully studied before, he unearthed new details about how soldiers of the Wehrmacht were regularly supplied with methamphetamine of a quality that would give Walter White, of “Breaking Bad,” pangs of envy. Millions of doses, packaged as pills, were gobbled up in battles throughout the war, part of an officially sanctioned factory-to-front campaign against fatigue.
To see more check out the NYTimes.
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#4319014 - 12/11/16 02:22 PM
Re: Nazi on drugs - how might it have affected air combat?
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Last month "FalkeEins" blog, wrote about stimulant use and alcohol abuse in the Luftwaffe. based exactly on Norman Ohler's book. FalkeEins blog
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#4319089 - 12/12/16 01:21 AM
Re: Nazi on drugs - how might it have affected air combat?
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From reading the blog it does not seem there was any particular bad affect in flying.
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#4320740 - 12/17/16 04:49 PM
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#4321591 - 12/20/16 12:15 AM
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#4338805 - 02/19/17 06:41 PM
Re: Nazi on drugs - how might it have affected air combat?
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After reading below I wonder just how such a prolonged use would have affected the pilots. My impression is that they were exhausted most of the time.
Norman Ohler, the author of “Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany.” Credit
“Blitzed.” Through interviews and documents that hadn’t been carefully studied before, he unearthed new details about how soldiers of the Wehrmacht were regularly supplied with methamphetamine of a quality that would give Walter White, of “Breaking Bad,” pangs of envy. Millions of doses, packaged as pills, were gobbled up in battles throughout the war, part of an officially sanctioned factory-to-front campaign against fatigue.
To see more check out the NYTimes. I don't even understand how this is a book or story. I'm mean, who gives two craps what go pills I take to go when my life expectancy is as low as it is ever going to get anyway? I mean, what is the guy trying to imply by "officially sanctioned?" I just think it's weird and sort of naive to write about this as if it's a story. But to each his own, I guess. They have to talk about something in university safe zones. You know what? Agent Orange. Bad stuff. But guess what else: it's a lot better for you than a hot lead bullet from the dude hiding in the foliage.
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