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Article mentions that Hitler didn't drink alcohol, but he sure was a speed freak and took a lot of other drugs. Also worth mentioning that the Axis and Allied s

Article mentions that Hitler didn't drink alcohol, but he sure was a speed freak and took a lot of other drugs. Also worth mentioning that the Axis and Allied sides both utilized amphetamines heavily during the war. I think that alcohol use on the battlefield has declined largely because in modern warfare, the kind of impairment that you get from alcohol is a huge liability, but the kind of edge that a driver or pilot can potentially get from a strong stimulant can really benefit the effort. Edit: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3bjp4y/total-intoxication-nazi-use-of-meth-876 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3bjp4y/total-intoxication... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2377281/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2377281/

nradov 9y ago
That amphetamine use is covered extensively in the history book "Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany" by Norman Ohler. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/294543/blitzed/ https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/294543/blitzed/
hoppelhase 9y ago
Never heard that the allied side also did that. All they tell you in Germany is that the Nazis did it. There are some documentaries on German public television about that.
- mseebach 9y ago
  Amphetamines were in common civil use, available over the counter and only restricted in the US in the 70s. They were in diet pills and pep pills etc. You grandparents may very well have taken amphetamines at some point in their lives. But no, not commonly part of the narrative. Remember, drugs are literally Hitler. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_and_culture_of_substituted_amphetamines https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_and_culture_of_subst...