Adolf Hitler’s evil Nazi troops went into battle ‘out of their minds’ on meth drugs in hope it would make them less terrified of Brit soldiers
Even the Fuhrer's vitamin shots were laced with hormones, cocaine and methamphetamines
ADOLF Hitler's terrified troops went into battle with Britain drugged up to their eyeballs on methamphetamines, a new book claims.
The Fuhrer's generals hoped the drugs would make their soldiers more alert and less scared of the Allied warriors they were to fight on the frontline.
The revelations are made German writer Norman Ohler's best-selling book Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich.
The publishers say the study is 'a compelling piece of serious scholarship that offers a comprehensive view of drugs in Nazi Germany that professional historians seem to have missed.'
In his book, Ohler makes two major claims: the Nazi fighting machine was fuelled by 'meth' and that Hitler’s own rising drug abuse prevented him from making decisions that could have ended the war sooner.
In the 1930s, German pharmacists developed Pervitin, a prescription methamphetamine that was marketed as a confidence booster and pep pill.
The drug even found its way into sweets marketed to German housewives.
Methamphetamine is a powerful, highly addictive stimulant that affects the central nervous system.
Also known as meth, chalk, ice, and crystal, among many other terms, it takes the form of a white, odourless, bitter-tasting crystalline powder that easily dissolves in water or alcohol.
Like amphetamine, methamphetamine causes increased activity and talkativeness, decreased appetite, and a sense of well-being or euphoria.
The military quickly realised it could help its troops fight sleep and fear and the drug fuelled the 1940 Blitzkrieg that shocked the world.
However, the book claims the longer the war dragged on, the less effective the drugs became and the more addicted the troops became.
Ohler also studied the files of Hitler’s personal physician Dr. Theodor Morell.
He says they reveal as the stress built during the war, Morell started mixing hormones, Pervitin and cocaine into the Fuhrer's vitamin shots.
By the end of the war, the vegetarian leader who had decried drug users as “criminally insane” was so doped up he had no grip on reality.