Nonsense!
The Nazis were being fed crystal meth by the handful.
Your soldiers use drugs too.
It was called Pervitin and was used over the counter by the public as well.
No. It was
not under free trade in public during world war 2. After the war the use of this drug was over. In 2014 had appeared in Germany the first public study about the drug chrystal meth (German: Pervitin, Metaamphetamine). This drug is used in public now since about 20 years. This phenomenon is independent from world war 2. Chrystal Meth came as a drug from the USA to Germany. In places like the Czech republic (extremely "tolerant" laws in case of drugs) lots of people produce this drug and sell it in Germany for example.
The side effects became obvious later in the war.
Besides allowing their soldiers to go for days without sleep, making the Blitzkrieg possible,
"Blitzkrieg" (=war in speed of lightening) is a word, which was practically only used from the English propaganda. France had a problem with the Maginot line and Germany used the first time in history skydivers, which had attacked this defense wall from direction France. Bad luck for France. And before this had happened Germany had won very fast against Poland - but Poland was just simple without an army, which had had any chance against the German army.
a side effect is to increase soldiers' hostility and also to virtually eliminate any empathy. Great traits for a fighting soldier.
You imagine Germans = German soldiers = SS = Nazis = monsters. And you think the explanation are drugs. That's the stereotype which allows you to kill without any scruple as many Germans as you like to kill. For example with a bomb Mrs. Smith in Nürnberg in her living room during world war 2, where she watered her flowers. Who did you say is a monster and who did you say is not a monster?
You really need to brush up on your Nazi history.
Nazis Dosed Soldiers with Performance-Boosting 'Superdrug'
By
Mindy Weisberger June 25, 2019
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"Drugged, fearless and berserk"
The German
methamphetamine Pervitin was initially marketed in the 1930s as a recreational pick-me-up, and scientists were experimenting with Pervitin before the war to see how long student users could stay awake and still perform well on exams, said World War II historian and documentary consultant James Holland.
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By 1940, Pervitin was widely distributed among pilots in the Luftwaffe (the Nazi air force) to prime them for the rigors of long missions, or to ward off sleeplessness and hunger if their planes were shot down, Holland told Live Science
That was the year of the Blitz — the Nazis' relentless and devastating bombing attack against Britain — an initiative fueled by massive quantities of speed, Holland said.
Records from the British War Office estimated that over the three months of the Blitz — from April to June 1940 — about 35 million Pervitin tablets were sent to 3 million German soldiers, seamen and pilots, Nicolas Rasmussen, a professor in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales in Australia, reported in 2011 in
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History.
Following this infusion of drugs, Wehrmacht soldiers (as the troops in Nazi Germany were called) marched and fought for 10 consecutive days, trapping and defeating the British army at Dunkirk in a decisive military victory, PBS representatives said in the statement.
In Britain, rumors swirled about dive-bombing Nazi pilots with a superhuman resistance to g-forces through drugs, and newspapers described sightings of German paratroopers who were "heavily drugged, fearless and berserk," according to Rasmussen.
Nazis Dosed Soldiers with Performance-Boosting 'Superdrug' | Live Science
The Allies found the Pervitin tablets in the cockpits of several downed Nazi planes and began experimenting with it and began supplying the Allied troops in the North African theatre.
The Nazis experimented with stronger stimulants combining crystal meth and cocaine on prisoners at various concentration camps. Men would be given the varying combinations and then forced to march, with 70 pound packs without rest until they died.
Are you seriously asking who were the monsters of WW-II, the Nazis or the Allies? Really?