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Pervitin, an early form of methamphetamine, was widely used in Nazi Germany and was available without a prescription. [1]The generally tolerant official drug policy in the Third Reich, the period of Nazi control of Germany from the 1933 Machtergreifung to Germany's 1945 defeat in World War II, was inherited from the Weimar government which was installed in 1919 following the dissolution of the ...
D-IX is a methamphetamine-based experimental performance enhancer developed by Nazi Germany in 1944 for military application. [1] [2] The researcher who rediscovered this project, Wolf Kemper, said, "the aim was to use D-IX to redefine the limits of human endurance."
Nazi Germany, in particular, embraced amphetamines during World War II. From April to July 1940, German service members on the Western Front received more than 35 million methamphetamine pills. German troops would go as many as three days without sleep during the invasion of France .
[45] [44] Use of Pervitin was restricted by the Wehrmacht and Nazi Germany as a whole under the Opium Law, which required the drug be obtained through a physician's prescription. After April 1941 the drug was no longer distributed to servicemen on a mass scale due to its dangerous side effects, and several deaths were attributed to Pervitin.
Since the fall of the Assad regime the new Syrian transitional government has ordered the cessation of the drug trade, and production has reportedly been reduced by 90%. [37] Methamphetamine ("Panzerschokolade", "Pervitin") during WWII by Nazi Germany [38] [39] Fliegerschokolade was the eponymous name that the Luftwaffe are claimed to have used.
A Nazi-era anti-smoking ad titled "The chain-smoker" reading: "He does not devour it, it devours him" (from the anti-tobacco publication Reine Luft, 1941;23:90) [1]. In the early 20th century, German researchers found additional evidence linking smoking to health harms, [2] [3] [1] which strengthened the anti-tobacco movement in the Weimar Republic [4] and led to a state-supported anti-smoking ...
Upon Germany’s surrender in 1945, I.G. Farben was dissolved and 23 of its senior managers were put on trial in Nuremberg. The modern Bayer company was formed in 1951.
According to a Der Spiegel article in 2005, Nazi Germany believed that Pervitin could also help win World War II, so the German armed forces was supplied with more than 35 million Pervitin tablets, especially during Germany's "Blitzkrieg" invasion of Poland and the Battle of France during 1939/40 where it was introduced to soldiers to attenuate ...