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> Almost anybody, ADHD diagnosis or not, will feel and perform better on low dose amphetamine the germans tried this with their troops in ww2 - hint: it didn't
by zabzonk 3y ago
> Almost anybody, ADHD diagnosis or not, will feel and perform better on low dose amphetamine
the germans tried this with their troops in ww2 - hint: it didn't go so well for them.
- dylan604 3y agostories of amped up pilots in the US military are common as well. i don't think it was just the germans, so trying to say that was the thing that didn't work well for the germans is just falling flat.
- bluepod4 3y agoNo one said it was just the Germans. But it is well-documented that the Germans distributed amphetamines on a mass scale which had harmful effects. The US did not distribute on a mass scale.
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- sneed_chucker 3y agoGermany didn't lose WWII due to a lack of combat effectiveness among its troops.
- zabzonk 3y agoman to man, no, but arguably they lost it tactically because their troops/pilots kept taking the pills, without rest and getting worse and worse, until they were wiped out, which lost them almost all of their experienced troops/pilots, whereas the western allies rotated their troops/pilots out of combat.
- sneed_chucker 3y ago> but arguably they lost it tactically because their troops/pilots kept taking the pills, I don't think you'll find a single mainstream historian who would agree with that take. Germany lost the war because they lacked the logistics to sustain a multi-front war against the combined military and industrial power of the USSR, the United States, and Great Britain. No amount of pervitin added or subtracted from this equation would have changed that outcome.
- zabzonk 3y agostrategically yes, but i think historians of the luftwaffe would agree that it was fataly dammaged because its pilots never got a rest. didn't help that the rest of german high command, up to hitler himself, were all on pills/injections. you can't imagine eisenhower getting into such a state.
- tmottabr 3y agoBut the pilots were taking pills and never getting rest because the army had to cover two war fronts while lacking the resources to do so.. using pills and not resting enough was a symptom of the problem of having to fight a war in two fronts, not resting and taking pills was not the problem itself..
- sneed_chucker 3y agoAgain, the pills are not the decisive thing here. The Luftwaffe had to counter constant allied bombing of cities and industry both day and night, while also supporting advancing troops on the front. All the while, the allies are running a successful campaign to eliminate Germany's sources of petroleum which eventually all but neuters the operational capacity of the Luftwaffe. Frankly, it sounds to me like you've let Norman Ohler's pop history book, Blitzed, disproportionately color your perception of the second world war.