My grandfather was a bomber pilot for the RAF in WW2, and he was very open in his later life about how the RAF gave the pilot’s and the crew uppers to help the pilots fly for longer, and stay up during the night raids over Germany.
@@More_Row Hi , but in reality every army in the world took those "kind of pills " I saw, the different between Combat Rations and when we eating in the cafeteria of the Base camp. Ex-Cpl Royal 22 Regiment Canada served in Bosnia Herzegovina 94 Kosovo 99.
I find it hilarious that Hitler was one of the first public figures to recognize the negative effects of smoking and demonize it, while he was speedballing meth and morphine regularly.
@@TheRalouch He was undeniably a skilled military strategist. The meth dulled his ability to strategize, it didn't fool him into thinking he had that ability in the first place.
@@TheRalouch Very true he was on everything. So you can imagine his paranoid "Come downs" then having his trusty "Quack" to medicate him again for that. The scumbag was never sober. He had it all on tap.
I don't think this has ever stopped to be honest. Provigil is given to soldiers and pilots to keep them awake on long missions. It's not methamphetamine, but the history of giving soldiers performance enhancing drugs has never ceased.
Provigil and Nuvigil are basically just an alternative and dumbed down version of amphetamines, methamphetamines and cathinones (bath salts). They're called Nootropics and in a pharmacological sense, they all differ, but in a psychogenic sense, it's pretty much the same sht, just less intense
My father was a Polish navigator in the RAF during WW2 and flew 29 bombing missions over Germany. His rear gunner always took cocaine before a mission to calm his nerves, nobody gave it a second thought.
My dad, whom did recon in Vietnam, was given speed to scout being up for a few days at a time and given downers on return. He says it was pretty scary to out there wired in such a way
Not everybody reacts the same way to various drugs as others. Meth for example will wire some people up super tight. There were incidents in Vietnam where US soldiers would become so strung out they would shoot at noises within or near their perimeters which turned out to be their own troops.
Those Mongolians or those people in the mountains. Have you ever seen them go to school? They be hiking up mountain hill, rock climb, using a rope to climb down the mountain like 100-200 foot cliffs. They be the real pros when it comes to "getting" a way to school or finding it.
My grandfather served in World War II he saved two men from the boiler room when his ship was sinking after getting hit, he was high rank I think it was master chief something. He did receive a Purple Heart. He was a good man I miss him so much. He didn’t like to talk about the war, I really wish I could’ve spent more time with him.
My grandpa said 75% of the soldiers had crippling venereal diseases acquired from the local "Schlong Service Girls"..... Imagine running into battle with a cut-up thumb from your M1 Garand trying to keep your shots on target while simultaneously fighting off the crippling pain in your urethra while also being high on dextroamphetamine..... #LuckofTheIrish
@@dco1019 I could see that, would increase your stamina and your focus to help stay on target... But I feel like the amphetamines is what made them so horny, thus causing them to acquire the prostitute that caused the venereal disease
@@josephhawkins5750 yeah they totally did penicillin came out in 1928, a lot of the troops had to suffer through it though cuz they were embarrassed to see a nurse, or the ones on the frontline of the war had a hard time acquiring it in the midst of battle.... Man I wish Grandpa was still here.... I could sit and listen to his war stories all day #GoneButNotForgotten
All pro athletes used some form of speed in 30's, 40's and 50's (it made them faster and more focused). Pro Baseball was the most popular, they called them "greenies" due to their color. Back in the 30's till the late 50's in baseball they had a water cooler in the dugout and ANOTHER water cooler spiked with "Greenies" and it was a quick "Pick me up". It was legal back then to due so. Then the 60's thru the 80's was Cocaine, and then the 90's thru the 2000's it was steroid's. Best way to describe this is what Jose Canseco said " I just wanted to win!"
@When life takes your lemons; drink pink lemonade I believe it’s both. They were tougher and higher….and those who weren’t high at all got extremely tough due to dealing with high tough people
@@matthew_natividad not really from the drugs I mean every war is that way Vietnam was the same hell the wars in the middle east right now are over opium but fentayl can be just made without it so now that's why the cartels and ppl switched plus the extra money
I find stuff like this all the time collecting WW1 and WW2 memorabilia. I’ve been half tempted to try ‘em out on a few occasions. The risk of death far outweighed any pros I could think of.
@@FransceneJK98 if kept out of heat and UV exposure, you’d be surprised how long a chemical can last. There is this weird myth out there though that old drugs gain strength over time - perpetuated by a scene in wolf of Wall Street about old quaaludes - which is not true and makes absolutely no sense. To think a chemical could go - on its own - from let’s say 94.2% purity UP to 96% purity just from sitting for a long time is nonsensical.
it all makes so much sense. every meth user ive ever met says it "makes any and every idea sound like the greatest idea anyone has ever had" so it's ridiculously easy to brainwash someone using
Grandfather's older brother( grand uncle ) served in ww2 during the battle of the bulge. Amphetamines ( uppers ) were quite common to stay awake during guard duty and to stay awake in general, he and his fellow troops stayed awake for days with a few hours sleep here and there because of the non stop fighting for days at a time. And yes, in many cases ss "prisoners" were not taken prisoner, but shot. The malmedy massacre and the wereth 11 ( black GI'S WHO WERE SEPERATED FROM THEIR UNIT ) were murdered by the ss, and some of my grand uncle's trophy clothing, that being uniform eagles and ss collar patches, had blood on them when he brought them back. I only asked him once about the battles he participated in during that time and his response was " we didn't take ss prisoners, don't ask me again"
my late grandfather also fought in the battle of the bulge. once, he was telling me how they had to stay up for days at a time, i thought it was impressive but i never really gave it any second thought. the more you know ig😭😭💀
I watch and read a lot about history and I've never heard of this before. I knew Hitler was a drug addict but I didn't know that practically every soldier was at that time. Well done!
Of course, don't you know Hitler was everything negative that could possibly be ascribed to a person? After all, he dared to remove Jewish influence in German society so of course he was a madman, drug addict, closeted homosexual, pedophile, murderer etc.
“I read a lot about history but have never heard of these almost common knowledge stories” Also no hitler was not a drug addict lmfao idk where people got that stupid idea, herman goering was a morphine addict not hitler
My great grandfather was a gunner of an airplane and he told me everyday they made it to the ground they would celebrate they made it to the ground after flying all day long. He told me how he sent Copenhagen "chew tobacco" a letter asking if they could supply the stores with it and they sent him boxes full of rolls for his entire platoon. He past away at the age of 98. 6 yrs ago. Every morning he would have straight black coffee with a shot of whiskey in it and topped off with whipped cream. He never even drank he just got use to putting a shit of whiskey in his coffee before going into the plane every morning cause it woke him right up and helped his nerves and to be alert. Theres a wall he said in Hawaii I think he said Hawaii or somewhere I can't remember clearly but he said there's a big cement wall with his bullets still in it and every third bullet was a tracer bullet to help you stay on target.
So, with the whiskey he "never even drank" he successfully shot a wall to take over Hawaii! Brilliant! Unfortunately, Cement DID win the battle to take over Hawaii, in spite of the wall being wounded in action.
That’s similar to what my friend does. Before school every morning he’d put vodka in his drink to help him stay awake. He says it gives him his extra boost of energy.
In a “world war” i could only pray my country said “here ya go have fun” and hand you a ammo can full of bullets and a baggie full of coke lol best battle ever
I recall my great-grandfather describing the common German solider having different frame of mind than a normal soldier despite the lack of supplies or what would normally lower moral in the later stages. I was too young to understand at the time but this explains a lot things now.... RIP Grandpa
A old guy in my neighbourhood was in spetznas, deployed in Afghanistan. He never told me the name of the drugs, but he said they would take two pills and wouldn’t sleep or feel hungry for days
My father fought communist russia in 1978 when they wanted to occupy Afghanistan. For sleep and pain relief they smoked hash and to get more conscious they prayed before fight
@@The_Hairy_Hermit Thats not what blitzkrieg means though. It has nothing to do with taking drugs. Its a Strategy that just meant that Germany was incredibly fast while occupying countrys e.g. Poland
@@walterbrunswick So just bc the german army was supplied with drugs to enhance their performance, every german was a hypocrite? Ain't that a little far fetched?
After watching this, so much more about the Germans in and around world war 2 makes sense. Everyone was so fucked up on speed that they couldn’t help but to support the leaders who were making it all possible. If the soldiers were using this shit daily it explains why at the beginning they were able to make the headway they did and also why towards the end the decision making and spirit were so low. A human body can only take soo much before it decides its had enough and starts to shut down. You give that much speed to anyone and they would be able to walk 60km a day without thinking twice. But after going through day after day after day of that their bodies and minds were exhausted. It’s why those making the tough decisions started to make mistake after mistake in the planning and execution. As someone else said in the comments if this was the shit they taught in schools my history teacher would have had my undivided attention
Honestly it has a strong anti drug message, I've fucked around and found out, if they had taught the effects on armies in WW2, maybe I would have had a more tangible example of it's effects and stayed away.
@@I-Have-The-Cuckoo some were forced to join you do realize that don’t you? It was either them and their family or join the nazis obviously they didn’t want their family’s to die
@@I-Have-The-Cuckoo you think you’ll be any different if you were in nazi Germany ? No most wouldn’t and its bs if they say no, its call mob mentality this is the truth of humanity we are animals
Nah it’s not like the whole country was on drugs. Quote the opposite. My great grandfather was a baker and forced into being a soldier. He actually has stories of never being able to get any drugs. Even cigarettes were rationed because they weren’t considered “healthy”. But no he was never given speed and they didn’t even have any pain killers to give when he got injured on the front lines in east Germany. So if these stories are true and amping them up on speed it must’ve only been the elite troops like SS. Because my family had never experienced this
KIS, YES they were also in the emergency ration pack in WWII: first aid stuff, chocolate bar, those tablets to chlorinate puddle water, and BENZEDRINE, 5 mg ×20
Anyone interested in the illicit drug scene during WWII back here in the US should read William S Burroughs. Such an unseen part of history, so much has been forgotten or only passed down via word of mouth from addict to addict, because it isn't the type of thing anyone thinks to write down.
"The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder" - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
@@chantehr5748 My guy read that, n his conclusion was, if you ever murdered somebody, just don't worry about it. If theyre going to catch you they're going to catch you, n the continual neurosis about it will eventually be the murderers downfall. Of course it helps not to be in a situation to want to murder anybody anyway LOL
I was addicted to speed for 20 years, the first 15 was everything you can asked for, the last 5 were hell, now I a have massive mental health issues. That will never go away. So yes I can see how it help for a start but once you become addicted, your hole perception of life and reality changes. Until you come off and get clean you then see the false reality you were living in
I was also on a similar course for about 8 years. Many people I ran with are permanently insane. Severe mental health issues to the point that they are very dangerous too their selves and anyone who tries to help them. There's gonna be a whole generation of crazies one of these days because of this so called miracle drug one day 😭😭😭
Spill keeds. True but far from funny. Unfortunately many, many kids under ten years of age are routinely prescribed Adderal by their greedy doctors. One kid I met was prescibed Adderal at the age of five. When I met him he was sixteen. He hated using the shit but his parents forced him saying it was neccesary to do good in school. Sigh..bad parenting, bad pharmacology. Everyone looking for a quick fix need remember that when the doctors say, "Safe when used as directed", their full of shit. It's just like Oycontin.
@@stefanschleps8758 if you're an adult and you do use chemicals as directed the risks are very much minimized that's not bs, if everyone used speed or meth properly a lot of the problems described in the video wouldn't happen, the problem is they just gave away the pils and didn't educate people on what they were using, when you take an upper you should be aware for how long that dose you took will be active so you can time the comedown to actually take some breaks to eat and sleep, "when used as directed" does matter some doctors don't clue the people in on how dangerous the drugs they are pescribing are sure and you should definitely not give them to children, but be honest all the people suffering from bad aftermath of drug use were not using them as directed at all
@Dutch Plan Der Linde when you get to the point of eating sleeping and all your doing is to function. And the chemist who I got it from direct. Would say otherwise. Sometimes life gives you opportunities that make you want to change your life from hiding away from your demons
Mescaline was discovered(by the white/western world) long before either, and was actually used in mind control/truth serum "experiments"(torturings) by the nazis during ww2. MKULTRA would continue(literally picking up based on nazi records, and using similarly brutal methods) this line of investigation, later switching to LSD.
Drugs have been illegal for only about 70 years...the fact mankind did just fine without the laws for hundreds of thousands of years says something about how stupid the drug war is.
i don't know if that's the greatest example, considering we were killing each other like crazy back then. 😂 but i'm just kidding, it's very unlikely the fault of the drugs of course. so i'm with you on that. just a huge waste of time, money, ressources. it's really a shame we're still holding on to this BS, but yeah the criminal organisation are loving it, that's for sure
Ever heard of the Opium War? Drugs have been a problem since the conception of pharmaceuticals. Increased understanding of drugs and addiction has made synthetic drugs more potent and addictive than anything before it. While less potent natural substances may be viable for responsible recreational consumption, synthetic substances have proven to be far too dangerous. So while the inclusion of natural substances that are unlikely to cause addiction was a mistake of the drug war and there were many missteps throughout the drug war, that doesn’t mean that the entire purpose of the war was ill-advised. Perhaps instead of prohibiting substances the government should’ve tightly regulated its use to minimize risk of abuse and addiction. The biggest problem is that we didn’t understand drugs enough to tell the good from the bad in many cases. We reacted the same way anyone would have when faced with something unknown and potentially highly dangerous. Turns out that wasn’t the correct approach and that course of action has fueled crime syndicates ever since. Personally, I’d vouch for extensive research into each substance before deregulation. Once the substances are more fully understood (Yes we have lots of anecdotal evidence but not a lot of scientific evidence), then consider deregulation. Addictive and/or dangerous substances should be tightly regulated but not necessarily completely prohibited, and non-addictive substances that don’t pose a threat to the person or society may be legalized recreationally.
@@gavinsojourner1096 doesn't mean it was the right thing to do, just that we are too stubborn to admit mistakes and try different routes. prohibition never showed any signs of effectiveness at all, but still we are unable to let it go for some reason. my theory is, way too many people profit way too much from prohibition, so legalization would hurt them a lot actually
It's difficult to get accurate data about this subject in the United States, but the simple fact is the United States Navy anyway was running on benzedrine ever since the compound was found to produce the "pep pill" effect (the dose obtained from a few inhalations of a Benzedrine inhaler are usually not enough to cause overstimulation, there is however anecdotal evidence of soldiers breaking up with the containers and dumping about 10 or 15 inhalers into a battalions coffee cauldron. A battalion is about 500 men and therefore, the dose wouldn't be huge but it would be enough to keep the troops moving around and in a good mood.). This is of course the general improvement of mood, lessening of appetite, and non-compensatory wakefulness. This makes amphetamines different from a stimulant like caffeine, where if you stay awake half the night doing work, using caffeine to stay awake will help you to stay awake but you will still need about the same amount of sleep. Amphetamines eliminate this biological safety valve. Although you will find almost no one willing to admit it and ABSOLUTELY no one in a position of so-called authority lol, amphetamines were non-medically used extensively both during World War II and after World War ii. Does anybody ever remember seeing a picture of Frank Sinatra from during the war? The man is a literal broomstick. Same thing happened to admiral William "Bull" Halsey, except to go along with the extreme thinness, his skin started to melt off. Physicians had to give him a mandatory leave of absence to go to hospital to get his condition corrected. The intelligence officer who was instrumental in breaking the Japanese code in the Pacific was a heavy amphetamine user. It was said of lieutenant Rochefort, give him a pot of coffee and a bottle of pills and he can break any code. The job of repairing the aircraft carrier Yorktown, damaged heavily during the Battle of Coral Sea in the Southwest pacific, was estimated by seasoned Pearl harbor repair specialists to take 6 weeks at least. It was done in two and a half days, of course it wasn't in the same condition in which the ship was built however it could still carry as many planes and it could still maintain 32 knots. So that could be one of the best amphetamine mottos, "the difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer." There are many anecdotal stories in the United States Army about the use of mainly benzedrine, but one of the major sagas that is always written between the lines is Lt General George Patton's 3rd army. Patton was as famous for getting 40 mile a day marches out of his troops as any German general, his armored formations had an uncannily similar description of blitzkrieg advances to the German armored formations, and feats like turning the direction of 45,000 men, in a moving sea of 300,000 men, 90° and KEEP GOING simply cannot be adequately understood by anyone who isn't familiar with the problem, but it takes intricate control, masterful manipulation and an extreme attention over at least 10 hours that does not waiver at all. But I'm not talking about just General Patton, his troops were also heavily laced with this stuff and performed basically with cold instant coffee, a meal consisting of a chocolate bar or a C-rat biscuit, and no sleep for about 48 hours. Then there are the negative effects. The United States Army was never up against it so horribly as the Germans had it at Stalingrad. There, young troops were just dying for no apparent reason, they were in good spirits, apparently good health, but they were only getting 600 or 1000 calories a day at best. They of course made the same stupid mistake that a lot of people even today make in thinking that amphetamines somehow produce energy or cause energy, and that they can actually replace sleep and food. The matter of sleep is still conjecture, but the conclusive verdict was that you simply cannot expect soldiers to perform the duties of soldiers with amphetamines replacing nutrition and sleep; you can't ignore the realities of logistics. But as long as a person uses these compounds with restraint n DOES eat n sleep, they can avoid the horror-stories of an admiral who has such bad dermatosis that his skin is literally coming off, or a couple of idiots who are so high on meth that they don't even know what they're doing going out and cruising in their car in the middle of a snowstorm and not surprisingly come to a bad end.
I was roofing on speed for a while. As long as I ate really well, as in twice what a normal person eats and 10 times what I felt like eating, we could smash out a couple houses a day. One moment that stands out was dropping a hammer and catching it before it hit the ground, another was throwing sheets from the ground to the first floor, we really were that good. I would doze an hour or so at night, dont think it was really sleep. Weekends I was dead. It lasted maybe a month before i quit. Turns out having a drug abusing boss isnt great for regular pay.
...because Crank quickly makes its users insane, the USAF got french scientists to study wakefullness and they developed the remarkable drug, Provigil, which is now approved for flight crews. It is also a smart drug.
Oh man, I had a prescription for Provigil for a few months, and that stuff is magical. You don't "feel" anything on it, you just don't feel anything close to sleepiness for 14 hours. No euphoria or "amped" or jitteriness like amphetamines. Shoot man, I'd actually sort of forgot about it. That was around 10 years ago.
Frankly, the tons of Pervitin Germans dumped for the Finns (alongside heroin and cigarettes) turned out to be a life saver during the harsh winters conditions.
@@adrianadrian7672 Because heroin, just like any opiate or drugs like Alcohol, Cocaine, MDMA ect, make you feel hot .. For heroin/opiate when you get high its like when you wake up in the morning in your bed under your cover, you feel well, you want to stretch, your brain wave are in tetha/alpha mode so you are calm and relax .. And it’s the winter so its cold so you want to stay in your bed .. This is why people take heroin/opiate and drugs in general.
this is wild to me because i live in a house that was built in the mid 1800's and only the one half of the house was modernized and over on the other side ive found all kinds of old drugs, including pervitin. i also found a huge glass jug of clear oil like liquid with a label that said "cannabis oil indica" as a pot head that was a cool find.
I think they were using slang terms to avoid issues with RUclips Monetization, so went with whatever is relatable. Pay attention they never used the M or A word in the whole video.
At 5:45 I couldn’t help but burst into laughter as I looked at the photo with the narrator saying “He suggested that speed and it’s compounds could improve the soldiers’ performance” LMFAOOOO
Soldier decides it would be more effective to flying kick a platoon in an entrenched cover than use his weapon or covert tactics. I love how caught off guard the guy about to eat boot looks. His training didn't prepare him for methed up Chuck Norris'. Haha I wonder if that photo is real. The camera man's timing is incredible if it is.
@@GuitarHeroPhenomSux hahaha you got me dead bro 😂 seriously though the whole moment and context made it all the more hilarious 🤣 dude definitely mastered the ways of Chuck Norris 👌🏼
In the Greek army the only drug was nicotine my granpa didnt smoke and he was selling his cigarettes to others 😂 during ww2 he fought 6 years in ww2 and a civil war after. He passed away at his 92 and im happy he told he alot of storys about that period and the hunger that followed till late 60s to most familys
Based on his word choices, I guarantee his real world familiarity with these drugs outside of wikipedia and urban dictionary is absolutely zero. It comes across as if he has never even made eye contact with a user of any of these substances.
My grand father was a bow gunner in a tank and they had to stay awake for long times and stay alert for long times so he still has the exact same pervitien bottle
I know people whose fathers were in platoons that fought in the Phillipines in 1944, and they found weed and got super high. Fighting all those crazy Japanese bonzaiiers while stoned. Probably mild to what is around here now.
Oh, yeah, dude. VERY mild compared to now. Bob Marley was smoking like 5% shit in the 70's. It would take a modern stoner like 4 whole joints to get a head change off the stuff back then.
Speed is unlike most other drugs. When you start down the road of opiates you quickly realize that this is feels great but it will not end well. With speed you feel great but you can't see any downside. It's full speed ahead until
Most elite tier 1 spec ops are still on boatload of uppers and downers they have to be ready in an instant an as soon as that fight is over take downers to get rest for the next opp. Very common. Idk why this is a surprise to anyone.
Yeah but it has been switching over to Modafinil. I think pilots have some say in what they use. But increasingly the Pentagon is trying to find "safer" alternatives than using Dexidrene.
Yeah and the result..... friendly fire 2008 pilot from National Guard drop bomb on supposed Taliban's ground fighters.... but in reality it was Canadian soldiers.
"I need Adderall for my ADHD" = "I'm addicted to speed" Rush Limbaugh who was virulently anti-drug use by "urban youth" was addicted to opiates but defended it as "prescription medication". So some quack gave him unlimited medical heroin. That's different.
Excellent book you mentioned! I bet the cocktail Morrell shot into Hitler daily contributed to his mental instability....and definitely was behind one of his 3 hour speeches (not sure if there was more than one that lasted that long..)
I read that the escape of the British troops at Dunkirk was largely the result of the German Army being exhausted after days of fighting high on drugs. What goes up, must come down. Is there any truth to this?
There’s probably some truth to that, but the Wehrmacht was clearly capable of destroying the encircled army at Dunkirk. Hitler refused to order the attack because he had still hoped that an armistice and eventual alliance between the two Aryan nations (Germany and Britain) would be possible. Not destroying the British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk was one of if not the single biggest blunder he chose to make in the war, ironically because it may have been the only way Britain would have agreed to peace, having no army to defend itself. Many of those men went off to fight Rommel and the Vichy French in North Africa and the Middle East.
Yes you can go 48 hours pretty easily on speed but anything past 3rd day and the lack of sleep start to hit you hard it begins with mild delusions depending person to person to complete lack of sanity with each passing day
The army was forced to halt and wait for Hitler's command to advance, he still has this idea that British would sue for peace. If they did advance even though they would've been exhausted there was literally no viable defense on place. It would've been a mass surrender
@RedWolf, from what I know, that is a typical response for someone with ADHD needing a dosage adjustment. Some dosages stimulate a quicker release of brain chemicals that facilitate sleep.
Red, if it was just a small dose, some people the mild intoxication does make them want to sleep. Or, yes you could have add/hd, and I guess one of the tests for that is, if cocaine makes you unpleasantly anxious, but amphetamines make you feel calm and pretty much ready for a nap
This is only seen as a big deal because it's a controlled substance now, and because the commenters aren't considering the circumstances of the time. They could die at any second from a flak burst, you think they cared about the tiny risks associated with giving healthy young men a stimulant? If I was on a bomber crew I would make sure the man responsible for manning the only weapon stopping us from being shot from the sky by a fighter, was as alert as possible. In 70 years people will probably be making smug jokes about the old days when school children were given speed (ritalin etc) to help them concentrate.
My bro and son have adhd. Both were reccomended ritalin. My brother had it (early 90s). It has fucked him up really badly now hes grown. As for my son I remember getting pretty angry at a doctor who kept insisting he needed it. Turns out never has took it, needed it and hes a well adjusted young man. Point is these doctors lie to parents and those parents dont always know the truth. My son was lucky, but at the cost of my brother suffering.
Refined Amphetamine Salts were one of the greatest utilized and worst abused substances in history. In combat it allowed soldiers to stay awake days on end with reduced or absent hunger. The nootropic effects were only second to pure nicotine. Soldiers could operate and think clearly while engaging the enemy for hours on end, with a calming or euphoric effect. Taking above 80mg within a stretch of a few days leads to an increase in tolerance, requiring more to feel the effects. The withdrawls could range from minor to extreme with depression and suicidal tendencies in some cases. The side effects were just as great with hallucinations, mania, irrational aggression, and paranoia being prominent, with long term abuse leading to heart and cardiovascular illnesses and nervous system damage later in life.
@@AYVYN A human can go months without food, but yes caloric intake is necessary for survival. From my experience, I needed anywhere from none to around 500 a day to keep going.
I was at an airforce museum one time and in the vietnam exhibit they had amphetamine salt in a glass vial. It looked like it was for intravenous use but im not sure.
Lmao you clowns think you know it all. Government can change ingredients in anything it wants and you would believe everything the FDA , CDC , or the television has to say..pffff
My grandfather was a bomber pilot for the RAF in WW2, and he was very open in his later life about how the RAF gave the pilot’s and the crew uppers to help the pilots fly for longer, and stay up during the night raids over Germany.
Paw paw got that ass kick
They love perpetuating the myth that only the Germans were drugged up.
@@More_Row Hi , but in reality every army in the world took those "kind of pills " I saw, the different between Combat Rations and when we eating in the cafeteria of the Base camp. Ex-Cpl Royal 22 Regiment Canada served in Bosnia Herzegovina 94 Kosovo 99.
@@More_Row who is "they"?
Problem was it took so long to come down guys would start skipping sleeping. After a week of not sleeping you start hallucinating.
I find it hilarious that Hitler was one of the first public figures to recognize the negative effects of smoking and demonize it, while he was speedballing meth and morphine regularly.
And yet people today will worship Hitler as a "military genius" when he was just an ambitious methhead
@@TheRalouch He was undeniably a skilled military strategist. The meth dulled his ability to strategize, it didn't fool him into thinking he had that ability in the first place.
@@TheRalouch Very true he was on everything. So you can imagine his paranoid "Come downs" then having his trusty "Quack" to medicate him again for that. The scumbag was never sober. He had it all on tap.
Smoking is more dangerous than doctor supervised opioid use.
@@lisacraven2626 he was no more a scumbag then the US government
"The soldiers died increasingly of death." Yes catching a case a death is very deadly.
Only if it's fatal.
I think that might happen when you’re a soldier. Right? 🤔
I've heard it's extremely detrimental to your health.
Nonsense they aren't dead ..just sleeping nothing a good sleep can't fix definitely not dead tho
in soviet russia it’s called a dirt nap
Humanity after WW1: Let's do that again but this time on drugs!
Sounds about right!!
@@666m111 "Lets do that again with new drugs!"
*In multiple highschooler voices* "YEAH!"
Also Alcohol
@@machomanalexyt5736 "AND EVEN MORE SUPPLY OF BOTH OLD AND NEW ONES!"
I don't think this has ever stopped to be honest. Provigil is given to soldiers and pilots to keep them awake on long missions. It's not methamphetamine, but the history of giving soldiers performance enhancing drugs has never ceased.
Provigil is commonly prescribed for narcolepsy in Kentucky.
Yup. Nor was WW2 the first time it happened.
Provigil and Nuvigil are basically just an alternative and dumbed down version of amphetamines, methamphetamines and cathinones (bath salts). They're called Nootropics and in a pharmacological sense, they all differ, but in a psychogenic sense, it's pretty much the same sht, just less intense
There is even a prevalence of anabolic steroids in the US military
Of course it never stopped. They got stuff 100x stronger than the streets..
The heart attacks mean it’s working.
Don't forget liver failure. Toxic cocktail of paracetamol, pervitin, alcohol.
LMFAO
vaccine
@@stefanschleps8758 that takes years to develop
I'm dead hahahahahah
That book being called “Blitzed” is the best thing I’ve seen today 😂
Lucky for us the Nazi's didn't have PCP or we would have been fighting real zombies!
Its a very fascinating read...
buy it
My father was a Polish navigator in the RAF during WW2 and flew 29 bombing missions over Germany. His rear gunner always took cocaine before a mission to calm his nerves, nobody gave it a second thought.
Doubt it
@@c.c.c.7756 snorting cocaine was a thing at the turn of the century, no doubt someone woulda taken a bump before a bomber run!
Cocaine to calm his nerves??? Really? I think your father may be getting his drugs mixed up
@@crackerdan8010 polish ppl 😂
What a lair
My dad, whom did recon in Vietnam, was given speed to scout being up for a few days at a time and given downers on return. He says it was pretty scary to out there wired in such a way
Not everybody reacts the same way to various drugs as others. Meth for example will wire some people up super tight. There were incidents in Vietnam where US soldiers would become so strung out they would shoot at noises within or near their perimeters which turned out to be their own troops.
My dad said he remembered everything from his 2 years over in Vietnam, but sleeping. He believes they where given them stuff to keep them awake.
"The germans could walk up to 60km a day"
Parents when they had to go to school: "amateurs!"
I was lucky, only had to ride a shitbox bus 60kms each way to school.
But, when we got to a hill we had to get out and push ;)
yeah plus running,
Those Mongolians or those people in the mountains. Have you ever seen them go to school? They be hiking up mountain hill, rock climb, using a rope to climb down the mountain like 100-200 foot cliffs. They be the real pros when it comes to "getting" a way to school or finding it.
My grandfather served in World War II he saved two men from the boiler room when his ship was sinking after getting hit, he was high rank I think it was master chief something. He did receive a Purple Heart. He was a good man I miss him so much. He didn’t like to talk about the war, I really wish I could’ve spent more time with him.
This channel lives up to it's name , this really is some NUTTY HISTORY
So is ANY REAL account of history
Like all drug stories, you are flying high at the beginning and then everything goes to hell.
Love your channel and its content. Thank you!
My grandpa said 75% of the soldiers had crippling venereal diseases acquired from the local "Schlong Service Girls"..... Imagine running into battle with a cut-up thumb from your M1 Garand trying to keep your shots on target while simultaneously fighting off the crippling pain in your urethra while also being high on dextroamphetamine..... #LuckofTheIrish
Being high on amphetamines seems like a plus in that situation
@@dco1019 I could see that, would increase your stamina and your focus to help stay on target... But I feel like the amphetamines is what made them so horny, thus causing them to acquire the prostitute that caused the venereal disease
@@dco1019 trust me it is
Didn’t they have penicillin
@@josephhawkins5750 yeah they totally did penicillin came out in 1928, a lot of the troops had to suffer through it though cuz they were embarrassed to see a nurse, or the ones on the frontline of the war had a hard time acquiring it in the midst of battle.... Man I wish Grandpa was still here.... I could sit and listen to his war stories all day #GoneButNotForgotten
All pro athletes used some form of speed in 30's, 40's and 50's (it made them faster and more focused). Pro Baseball was the most popular, they called them "greenies" due to their color. Back in the 30's till the late 50's in baseball they had a water cooler in the dugout and ANOTHER water cooler spiked with "Greenies" and it was a quick "Pick me up".
It was legal back then to due so. Then the 60's thru the 80's was Cocaine, and then the 90's thru the 2000's it was steroid's.
Best way to describe this is what Jose Canseco said " I just wanted to win!"
i loved greenies. from college to minors to pros used all over
@@ai_renegade minors? What the fuck
@@1jaedan “minor” leagues bruv. college -> minor leagues -> major leagues
@When life takes your lemons; drink pink lemonade I believe it’s both. They were tougher and higher….and those who weren’t high at all got extremely tough due to dealing with high tough people
Ive always thought this. Everyone should be kicked out the MLB hall of fame. They were all on something
My uncle was in the USAF during ww2 and those guys were also drugged to the hilt. Basically everyone
Any life long side affects?
Salud
@@matthew_natividad not really from the drugs I mean every war is that way Vietnam was the same hell the wars in the middle east right now are over opium but fentayl can be just made without it so now that's why the cartels and ppl switched plus the extra money
I find stuff like this all the time collecting WW1 and WW2 memorabilia. I’ve been half tempted to try ‘em out on a few occasions. The risk of death far outweighed any pros I could think of.
What have you found
Where did you find it?? It probably wouldn’t do much cuz the active ingredients no longer have the same effect after 70 years
There’s a brilliant documentary you can watch on bitchute. It’s called, Europa - the last battle
Just take half 👀
@@FransceneJK98 if kept out of heat and UV exposure, you’d be surprised how long a chemical can last. There is this weird myth out there though that old drugs gain strength over time - perpetuated by a scene in wolf of Wall Street about old quaaludes - which is not true and makes absolutely no sense. To think a chemical could go - on its own - from let’s say 94.2% purity UP to 96% purity just from sitting for a long time is nonsensical.
it all makes so much sense. every meth user ive ever met says it "makes any and every idea sound like the greatest idea anyone has ever had" so it's ridiculously easy to brainwash someone using
Grandfather's older brother( grand uncle ) served in ww2 during the battle of the bulge. Amphetamines ( uppers ) were quite common to stay awake during guard duty and to stay awake in general, he and his fellow troops stayed awake for days with a few hours sleep here and there because of the non stop fighting for days at a time. And yes, in many cases ss "prisoners" were not taken prisoner, but shot. The malmedy massacre and the wereth 11 ( black GI'S WHO WERE SEPERATED FROM THEIR UNIT ) were murdered by the ss, and some of my grand uncle's trophy clothing, that being uniform eagles and ss collar patches, had blood on them when he brought them back. I only asked him once about the battles he participated in during that time and his response was " we didn't take ss prisoners, don't ask me again"
Isnt your second name Czech?
my late grandfather also fought in the battle of the bulge. once, he was telling me how they had to stay up for days at a time, i thought it was impressive but i never really gave it any second thought. the more you know ig😭😭💀
@@jess2166_ It is possible to stay awake for days on pure adrenaline. But around 2 to 3 days is where you can start to lose your mind.
Germans were only
returning the favor
after Allies massacred
axis POWs the year
before.
@@r0ky_M source?
I did two 15 month long tours in Iraq. I don’t know if I should be pissed that I was never offered speed. Probably thankful.
Maybe not you, but I'm certain many of your colleagues were probably given Provigil.
Rather smoke weed tbh.
Thank you for your service
@@lonewanderer3603 Nope! Ground pounders got caffeine gum if we were lucky.
@@gmangaming3906 Not the best for a battlefield. See also: Afghan National Army.
It does make sense for how the blitzkrieg was so fast and successful, but I have never heard of this before.
If they’d all have just smoked weed, there probably wouldn’t have been a war at all…..🌲🍁
They probably sign the peace 🕊️
Peace promoter
They smoked weed in Vietnam and Iraq even opium
i love weed but smoke it erryday its addictive asf peace and love guys X
Cool maaaaannn
I watch and read a lot about history and I've never heard of this before. I knew Hitler was a drug addict but I didn't know that practically every soldier was at that time. Well done!
Of course, don't you know Hitler was everything negative that could possibly be ascribed to a person? After all, he dared to remove Jewish influence in German society so of course he was a madman, drug addict, closeted homosexual, pedophile, murderer etc.
@@NP-iy1zu compelling story. please face the wall
“I read a lot about history but have never heard of these almost common knowledge stories”
Also no hitler was not a drug addict lmfao idk where people got that stupid idea, herman goering was a morphine addict not hitler
Meth is literally Nazi dope they invented it and used it to over throw Europe!
@@marcosguevara8295 ☠️☠️☠️lololol savagely done 👏🏼
My great grandfather was a gunner of an airplane and he told me everyday they made it to the ground they would celebrate they made it to the ground after flying all day long. He told me how he sent Copenhagen "chew tobacco" a letter asking if they could supply the stores with it and they sent him boxes full of rolls for his entire platoon. He past away at the age of 98. 6 yrs ago. Every morning he would have straight black coffee with a shot of whiskey in it and topped off with whipped cream. He never even drank he just got use to putting a shit of whiskey in his coffee before going into the plane every morning cause it woke him right up and helped his nerves and to be alert. Theres a wall he said in Hawaii I think he said Hawaii or somewhere I can't remember clearly but he said there's a big cement wall with his bullets still in it and every third bullet was a tracer bullet to help you stay on target.
Ur grandfather had a cocktail called Irish wiskey which is basically coffee whiskey and cream or milk, in classic they add sugar as well
So, with the whiskey he "never even drank" he successfully shot a wall to take over Hawaii!
Brilliant!
Unfortunately, Cement DID win the battle to take over Hawaii, in spite of the wall being wounded in action.
dont wanna be rude bet the typo for "a shit of whisky" had me rolling
Thanks for sharing that! It’d be really cool to travel to the wall you spoke of and see the bullets for yourself!! If you knew where exactly it was
That’s similar to what my friend does. Before school every morning he’d put vodka in his drink to help him stay awake. He says it gives him his extra boost of energy.
In a “world war” i could only pray my country said “here ya go have fun” and hand you a ammo can full of bullets and a baggie full of coke lol best battle ever
I recall my great-grandfather describing the common German solider having different frame of mind than a normal soldier despite the lack of supplies or what would normally lower moral in the later stages. I was too young to understand at the time but this explains a lot things now....
RIP Grandpa
everytime i see a mentos commercial, i just think they poppin amps
Mussolini was known to pop the odd E at weekends, and then he would phone Franco and talk his head off.
I study history thru the idea that a Society should be viewed thru the drugs that were in popular use at that time.
Great Video. As usual. Thank you.
When in war, depend on drugs.
Yes, winning a loudness war against your neighbours requires alot of drugs
you forgot to add the background audio and the chapter titles ! love the video tho haha
A old guy in my neighbourhood was in spetznas, deployed in Afghanistan. He never told me the name of the drugs, but he said they would take two pills and wouldn’t sleep or feel hungry for days
Also made them alert and sharp
Almost certainly some kind of amphetamine.
My father fought communist russia in 1978 when they wanted to occupy Afghanistan. For sleep and pain relief they smoked hash and to get more conscious they prayed before fight
Actually it was a fight between black hash vs pills 🤣
Most likely Vynase 60mg+ , give someone who has never tried Extended Release amphetamines x3 the beginner dose and they are wired for a day or 2.
Without speed for everyone involved,WW2 would've taken twice as long to end
"Blitzkrieg" will now forever take on a new meaning for me thanks to this video.
Also I think it should be renamed to "Blitzed-krieg" from now on.
Even better with the connection to "being blitz" and "bombed" already being references to taking drugs derived from wartime acts.
Oh wow, blitzed krieg, that is so damn good lmao
@@The_Hairy_Hermit Thats not what blitzkrieg means though. It has nothing to do with taking drugs. Its a Strategy that just meant that Germany was incredibly fast while occupying countrys e.g. Poland
@@missmania4561 No shiz Sherlock
@@The_Hairy_Hermit Well didn’t seem that you knew. My mistake then. Lol 🤷🏻♀️
"Drugs were seen as a weakness"
Also Germany: pouring beer by the quart....
my conclusion after all these WWII documentaries, is that Germans were a bunch of hypocrites
kinda like the US, actually
@@walterbrunswick So just bc the german army was supplied with drugs to enhance their performance, every german was a hypocrite? Ain't that a little far fetched?
After watching this, so much more about the Germans in and around world war 2 makes sense. Everyone was so fucked up on speed that they couldn’t help but to support the leaders who were making it all possible. If the soldiers were using this shit daily it explains why at the beginning they were able to make the headway they did and also why towards the end the decision making and spirit were so low. A human body can only take soo much before it decides its had enough and starts to shut down. You give that much speed to anyone and they would be able to walk 60km a day without thinking twice. But after going through day after day after day of that their bodies and minds were exhausted. It’s why those making the tough decisions started to make mistake after mistake in the planning and execution. As someone else said in the comments if this was the shit they taught in schools my history teacher would have had my undivided attention
Just like now, yet it's Xanax zombies
Honestly it has a strong anti drug message, I've fucked around and found out, if they had taught the effects on armies in WW2, maybe I would have had a more tangible example of it's effects and stayed away.
@@I-Have-The-Cuckoo some were forced to join you do realize that don’t you? It was either them and their family or join the nazis obviously they didn’t want their family’s to die
@@I-Have-The-Cuckoo you think you’ll be any different if you were in nazi Germany ? No most wouldn’t and its bs if they say no, its call mob mentality this is the truth of humanity we are animals
Nah it’s not like the whole country was on drugs. Quote the opposite. My great grandfather was a baker and forced into being a soldier. He actually has stories of never being able to get any drugs. Even cigarettes were rationed because they weren’t considered “healthy”. But no he was never given speed and they didn’t even have any pain killers to give when he got injured on the front lines in east Germany. So if these stories are true and amping them up on speed it must’ve only been the elite troops like SS. Because my family had never experienced this
"Cocaine's a hell of a drug." - A Wise Man
We're talking about Coke's big brother, here.
@@chucktouchton398 Cocaine started it all...everything else is just a derivative.
Pervitin is Methamphetamine
@reezeymoney Close...Rick James.
@@Marc_Araujo Coke and amphetamine are very different
They were still issuing them in the escape and evasion kits in the 1980s
I mean, if we have a technology/chemical that might help soldiers in an engagement, why wouldn't we use it?
KIS, YES they were also in the emergency ration pack in WWII: first aid stuff, chocolate bar, those tablets to chlorinate puddle water, and BENZEDRINE, 5 mg ×20
This is never talked about in history classes or ever mentioned in WW2
films.
It would be condemned as "Crirical War Theory"
Anyone interested in the illicit drug scene during WWII back here in the US should read William S Burroughs. Such an unseen part of history, so much has been forgotten or only passed down via word of mouth from addict to addict, because it isn't the type of thing anyone thinks to write down.
I love how they got away with naming a drug "pervyteen"
Lmfao
@Luis R Left
Center
Up
Down
"The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder"
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
What an interesting quote. I’m tempted the read the Dostoyevsky I’ve owned for 20+ years and never read.
@@seanbarry6057 his books are a good look into human nature. I recommend all of them, but my favourite is crime and punishment.
@@chantehr5748 My guy read that, n his conclusion was, if you ever murdered somebody, just don't worry about it. If theyre going to catch you they're going to catch you, n the continual neurosis about it will eventually be the murderers downfall. Of course it helps not to be in a situation to want to murder anybody anyway LOL
Very true i can say
We are all underground
I was addicted to speed for 20 years, the first 15 was everything you can asked for, the last 5 were hell, now I a have massive mental health issues. That will never go away.
So yes I can see how it help for a start but once you become addicted, your hole perception of life and reality changes.
Until you come off and get clean you then see the false reality you were living in
I was also on a similar course for about 8 years. Many people I ran with are permanently insane. Severe mental health issues to the point that they are very dangerous too their selves and anyone who tries to help them. There's gonna be a whole generation of crazies one of these days because of this so called miracle drug one day 😭😭😭
Spill keeds. True but far from funny. Unfortunately many, many kids under ten years of age are routinely prescribed Adderal by their greedy doctors. One kid I met was prescibed Adderal at the age of five. When I met him he was sixteen. He hated using the shit but his parents forced him saying it was neccesary to do good in school. Sigh..bad parenting, bad pharmacology. Everyone looking for a quick fix need remember that when the doctors say, "Safe when used as directed", their full of shit. It's just like Oycontin.
@@stefanschleps8758 if you're an adult and you do use chemicals as directed the risks are very much minimized that's not bs, if everyone used speed or meth properly a lot of the problems described in the video wouldn't happen, the problem is they just gave away the pils and didn't educate people on what they were using, when you take an upper you should be aware for how long that dose you took will be active so you can time the comedown to actually take some breaks to eat and sleep, "when used as directed" does matter some doctors don't clue the people in on how dangerous the drugs they are pescribing are sure and you should definitely not give them to children, but be honest all the people suffering from bad aftermath of drug use were not using them as directed at all
Noice
@Dutch Plan Der Linde when you get to the point of eating sleeping and all your doing is to function.
And the chemist who I got it from direct.
Would say otherwise. Sometimes life gives you opportunities that make you want to change your life from hiding away from your demons
Throughout the War, LSD sat undiscovered on the shelf at the sandoz lab in switzerland, And the magic in the mushrooms was still a mystery.
And crack was in the hands of Ronald Regan.
Imagine if the nazis were trippin
Mescaline was discovered(by the white/western world) long before either, and was actually used in mind control/truth serum "experiments"(torturings) by the nazis during ww2. MKULTRA would continue(literally picking up based on nazi records, and using similarly brutal methods) this line of investigation, later switching to LSD.
@@displaytalk no they didn't. The natives have been using peyote/mesc for thousands of years my friend.
@@Gdfsandoz yeah, that's why I specified "by the white/western world".. Of course the natives already knew about it
Drugs have been illegal for only about 70 years...the fact mankind did just fine without the laws for hundreds of thousands of years says something about how stupid the drug war is.
i don't know if that's the greatest example, considering we were killing each other like crazy back then. 😂
but i'm just kidding, it's very unlikely the fault of the drugs of course. so i'm with you on that. just a huge waste of time, money, ressources. it's really a shame we're still holding on to this BS, but yeah the criminal organisation are loving it, that's for sure
Ever heard of the Opium War? Drugs have been a problem since the conception of pharmaceuticals. Increased understanding of drugs and addiction has made synthetic drugs more potent and addictive than anything before it. While less potent natural substances may be viable for responsible recreational consumption, synthetic substances have proven to be far too dangerous.
So while the inclusion of natural substances that are unlikely to cause addiction was a mistake of the drug war and there were many missteps throughout the drug war, that doesn’t mean that the entire purpose of the war was ill-advised.
Perhaps instead of prohibiting substances the government should’ve tightly regulated its use to minimize risk of abuse and addiction. The biggest problem is that we didn’t understand drugs enough to tell the good from the bad in many cases. We reacted the same way anyone would have when faced with something unknown and potentially highly dangerous. Turns out that wasn’t the correct approach and that course of action has fueled crime syndicates ever since.
Personally, I’d vouch for extensive research into each substance before deregulation. Once the substances are more fully understood (Yes we have lots of anecdotal evidence but not a lot of scientific evidence), then consider deregulation. Addictive and/or dangerous substances should be tightly regulated but not necessarily completely prohibited, and non-addictive substances that don’t pose a threat to the person or society may be legalized recreationally.
Civilizations have banned different substances for different reasons for thousands of years.
@@gavinsojourner1096 doesn't mean it was the right thing to do, just that we are too stubborn to admit mistakes and try different routes. prohibition never showed any signs of effectiveness at all, but still we are unable to let it go for some reason. my theory is, way too many people profit way too much from prohibition, so legalization would hurt them a lot actually
People who do drugs are weak
You know it's gonna be a good story when it starts off with: my grandpa
It's difficult to get accurate data about this subject in the United States, but the simple fact is the United States Navy anyway was running on benzedrine ever since the compound was found to produce the "pep pill" effect (the dose obtained from a few inhalations of a Benzedrine inhaler are usually not enough to cause overstimulation, there is however anecdotal evidence of soldiers breaking up with the containers and dumping about 10 or 15 inhalers into a battalions coffee cauldron. A battalion is about 500 men and therefore, the dose wouldn't be huge but it would be enough to keep the troops moving around and in a good mood.). This is of course the general improvement of mood, lessening of appetite, and non-compensatory wakefulness. This makes amphetamines different from a stimulant like caffeine, where if you stay awake half the night doing work, using caffeine to stay awake will help you to stay awake but you will still need about the same amount of sleep. Amphetamines eliminate this biological safety valve.
Although you will find almost no one willing to admit it and ABSOLUTELY no one in a position of so-called authority lol, amphetamines were non-medically used extensively both during World War II and after World War ii. Does anybody ever remember seeing a picture of Frank Sinatra from during the war? The man is a literal broomstick.
Same thing happened to admiral William "Bull" Halsey, except to go along with the extreme thinness, his skin started to melt off. Physicians had to give him a mandatory leave of absence to go to hospital to get his condition corrected.
The intelligence officer who was instrumental in breaking the Japanese code in the Pacific was a heavy amphetamine user. It was said of lieutenant Rochefort, give him a pot of coffee and a bottle of pills and he can break any code.
The job of repairing the aircraft carrier Yorktown, damaged heavily during the Battle of Coral Sea in the Southwest pacific, was estimated by seasoned Pearl harbor repair specialists to take 6 weeks at least. It was done in two and a half days, of course it wasn't in the same condition in which the ship was built however it could still carry as many planes and it could still maintain 32 knots. So that could be one of the best amphetamine mottos, "the difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer."
There are many anecdotal stories in the United States Army about the use of mainly benzedrine, but one of the major sagas that is always written between the lines is Lt General George Patton's 3rd army. Patton was as famous for getting 40 mile a day marches out of his troops as any German general, his armored formations had an uncannily similar description of blitzkrieg advances to the German armored formations, and feats like turning the direction of 45,000 men, in a moving sea of 300,000 men, 90° and KEEP GOING simply cannot be adequately understood by anyone who isn't familiar with the problem, but it takes intricate control, masterful manipulation and an extreme attention over at least 10 hours that does not waiver at all. But I'm not talking about just General Patton, his troops were also heavily laced with this stuff and performed basically with cold instant coffee, a meal consisting of a chocolate bar or a C-rat biscuit, and no sleep for about 48 hours.
Then there are the negative effects. The United States Army was never up against it so horribly as the Germans had it at Stalingrad. There, young troops were just dying for no apparent reason, they were in good spirits, apparently good health, but they were only getting 600 or 1000 calories a day at best. They of course made the same stupid mistake that a lot of people even today make in thinking that amphetamines somehow produce energy or cause energy, and that they can actually replace sleep and food.
The matter of sleep is still conjecture, but the conclusive verdict was that you simply cannot expect soldiers to perform the duties of soldiers with amphetamines replacing nutrition and sleep; you can't ignore the realities of logistics. But as long as a person uses these compounds with restraint n DOES eat n sleep, they can avoid the horror-stories of an admiral who has such bad dermatosis that his skin is literally coming off, or a couple of idiots who are so high on meth that they don't even know what they're doing going out and cruising in their car in the middle of a snowstorm and not surprisingly come to a bad end.
Thanks for sharing! Well done
I was roofing on speed for a while.
As long as I ate really well, as in twice what a normal person eats and 10 times what I felt like eating, we could smash out a couple houses a day. One moment that stands out was dropping a hammer and catching it before it hit the ground, another was throwing sheets from the ground to the first floor, we really were that good. I would doze an hour or so at night, dont think it was really sleep. Weekends I was dead.
It lasted maybe a month before i quit. Turns out having a drug abusing boss isnt great for regular pay.
You should probably write a book instead of squeezing all that in a RUclips comment section
Use of the demented nonword "lol" marks the entire screed as questionable.
Your low-key cute 😉
...because Crank quickly makes its users insane, the USAF got french scientists to study wakefullness and they developed the remarkable drug, Provigil, which is now approved for flight crews. It is also a smart drug.
Oh man, I had a prescription for Provigil for a few months, and that stuff is magical. You don't "feel" anything on it, you just don't feel anything close to sleepiness for 14 hours. No euphoria or "amped" or jitteriness like amphetamines. Shoot man, I'd actually sort of forgot about it. That was around 10 years ago.
There has to be some sort of side effect that prevents this stuff from being prescribed more often, as this sounds amazing.
@@SandyAndy90245 Headaches the next day
Provigil
Pro- vigil
These guys were so creative lmao.
Huh, not really the same PLANET as desoxyn, dexedrine, Adderall or even Ritalin, provigil WILL NOT disrupt sleep cycle
Frankly, the tons of Pervitin Germans dumped for the Finns (alongside heroin and cigarettes) turned out to be a life saver during the harsh winters conditions.
I remember loving heroin during cold weather waaaaay back when I was a junkhead.
@@pablodelsegundo9502 why?
@@adrianadrian7672 Because heroin, just like any opiate or drugs like Alcohol, Cocaine, MDMA ect, make you feel hot .. For heroin/opiate when you get high its like when you wake up in the morning in your bed under your cover, you feel well, you want to stretch, your brain wave are in tetha/alpha mode so you are calm and relax .. And it’s the winter so its cold so you want to stay in your bed .. This is why people take heroin/opiate and drugs in general.
The old Wetsuit.
@@Anthonydu01630 YOU'RE RIGHT, and stimulants since they raise body temperature make a person feel cold!
chocolates spiked with speed would be a college hit in the math dept.
this is wild to me because i live in a house that was built in the mid 1800's and only the one half of the house was modernized and over on the other side ive found all kinds of old drugs, including pervitin. i also found a huge glass jug of clear oil like liquid with a label that said "cannabis oil indica" as a pot head that was a cool find.
Did you try the stuff?
Didn’t happen
"how many different names for Speed can we fit into a video?"
Pervintin is "meth" (methamphetamine)
"Speed" is a slang name for amphetamine.
didnt pervitin have opiates in it as well
@@akiraasmr3002 nope
Hitler was getting a cocktail of stuff..but not the troops
I think they were using slang terms to avoid issues with RUclips Monetization, so went with whatever is relatable. Pay attention they never used the M or A word in the whole video.
@@creativecookie5 oh true. Thanks for pointing this out mate. I wish authors on RUclips could create freely:(
At 5:45 I couldn’t help but burst into laughter as I looked at the photo with the narrator saying “He suggested that speed and it’s compounds could improve the soldiers’ performance” LMFAOOOO
Soldier decides it would be more effective to flying kick a platoon in an entrenched cover than use his weapon or covert tactics. I love how caught off guard the guy about to eat boot looks. His training didn't prepare him for methed up Chuck Norris'. Haha I wonder if that photo is real. The camera man's timing is incredible if it is.
Speed actually does increase the senses and motor skills given you havent been up longer then you naturally should.
@@GuitarHeroPhenomSux hahaha you got me dead bro 😂 seriously though the whole moment and context made it all the more hilarious 🤣 dude definitely mastered the ways of Chuck Norris 👌🏼
In the Greek army the only drug was nicotine my granpa didnt smoke and he was selling his cigarettes to others 😂 during ww2 he fought 6 years in ww2 and a civil war after. He passed away at his 92 and im happy he told he alot of storys about that period and the hunger that followed till late 60s to most familys
He was a wise man, don't kill your body with drugs if you're fighting to survive.
@@BigWheel. nicotine isn't bad actully s considerd a nueroprotecter the smoke Is the real bad one ....
This guy knows every street name for these drugs lol. I don't think he said the proper name for it a single time
Based on his word choices, I guarantee his real world familiarity with these drugs outside of wikipedia and urban dictionary is absolutely zero. It comes across as if he has never even made eye contact with a user of any of these substances.
his pronunciation of various German words was laughably wrong, too. I mean utterly wrong, not even close.
@@Conorfm 🤣🤣🤣💯💯💯
He has been smoking that Tina.
@@Bryan-ed6ee Is that a common term for it these days? I thought that’s just what people called it around where I live lol.
My grand father was a bow gunner in a tank and they had to stay awake for long times and stay alert for long times so he still has the exact same pervitien bottle
awkwardly cramming in slang words for meth is hilarious… you had me at black beauties 😂
please just say meth I collapsed when you said brain ticklers
You forgot to put your chapter titles in, bud. There’s weird pauses in here where they usually are.
Great-grandfather been geeked up before these rappers where born.
So again, the winner of the war(on drugs) is and always will be Big Farma
Shhhhhhhhh!! They’ll come for you bro lol
always fun to see a vid from you, keep it up...
I know people whose fathers were in platoons that fought in the Phillipines in 1944, and they found weed and got super high. Fighting all those crazy Japanese bonzaiiers while stoned. Probably mild to what is around here now.
Oh, yeah, dude. VERY mild compared to now. Bob Marley was smoking like 5% shit in the 70's. It would take a modern stoner like 4 whole joints to get a head change off the stuff back then.
@@thelastmanonearth2631 Yeah I remember when the Columbian Red was considered deadly in 1976, would be like now.
LOL I love the alternate terms used for speed in this vid.
There was a two part episode of the podcast Behind the Bastards about drug addiction in nazi germany a few months ago.
Speed is unlike most other drugs. When you start down the road of opiates you quickly realize that this is feels great but it will not end well. With speed you feel great but you can't see any downside. It's full speed ahead until
After five days awake you do see downsides
A speed crash is very debilitating.
Some things never change. Pharmaceutical companies continue to make huge profits off of addiction.
Germany went from blitzedkrieg to the retreating hangover
Most elite tier 1 spec ops are still on boatload of uppers and downers they have to be ready in an instant an as soon as that fight is over take downers to get rest for the next opp. Very common. Idk why this is a surprise to anyone.
“What drugs were like in ww2” - THEY ARE AMAZING
The US military used uppers for pilots in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Yeah but it has been switching over to Modafinil. I think pilots have some say in what they use. But increasingly the Pentagon is trying to find "safer" alternatives than using Dexidrene.
Yeah and the result..... friendly fire 2008 pilot from National Guard drop bomb on supposed Taliban's ground fighters.... but in reality it was Canadian soldiers.
Greatness doesn't come without its risks.
The whole burning a candle at two ends is an excellent analogy.
All speed is speed, no matter what you call it. Sooner or later it catches up w/you .
So true. OFF SPEED FOR 2 months now it’a a fucked up drug
"I need Adderall for my ADHD" = "I'm addicted to speed" Rush Limbaugh who was virulently anti-drug use by "urban youth" was addicted to opiates but defended it as "prescription medication". So some quack gave him unlimited medical heroin. That's different.
Can't fault this channel.👏. (Plenty of vid's in the Vaults eh ;-) ✌
They should have given the world leaders a few grams of ego smashing mushrooms. My guess is that history would look much different.
Sir, you have a true talent. 👍
Excellent book you mentioned! I bet the cocktail Morrell shot into Hitler daily contributed to his mental instability....and definitely was behind one of his 3 hour speeches (not sure if there was more than one that lasted that long..)
Not just the 3-hour speeches but the 7-hour military briefings and the 6-hour tea's with his secretaries afterwards LOL
Normal people: "World War Two" - Americans: "Wöurld Wouäh Tuah"
I read that the escape of the British troops at Dunkirk was largely the result of the German Army being exhausted after days of fighting high on drugs. What goes up, must come down. Is there any truth to this?
There’s probably some truth to that, but the Wehrmacht was clearly capable of destroying the encircled army at Dunkirk. Hitler refused to order the attack because he had still hoped that an armistice and eventual alliance between the two Aryan nations (Germany and Britain) would be possible. Not destroying the British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk was one of if not the single biggest blunder he chose to make in the war, ironically because it may have been the only way Britain would have agreed to peace, having no army to defend itself. Many of those men went off to fight Rommel and the Vichy French in North Africa and the Middle East.
Yes you can go 48 hours pretty easily on speed but anything past 3rd day and the lack of sleep start to hit you hard it begins with mild delusions depending person to person to complete lack of sanity with each passing day
Yes, also Hitler had a delusional idea that the British would sue for peace.
@@ericbooth3393 Germany's biggest blunder was to push East.
The army was forced to halt and wait for Hitler's command to advance, he still has this idea that British would sue for peace. If they did advance even though they would've been exhausted there was literally no viable defense on place. It would've been a mass surrender
Interesting video
Kind of like energy drinks and 4L today lol
Yeah, and just like the drugs of WWII, current energy drinks are not worth it.
@@ElBandito fully agreed. I felt so much better after I kicked them to the side and just took naps and drank water.
Could you do a video on civil war drugs?
Close to the end did he really say the soldiers died from “death”🤣
Cardiac failure,death🤣🤣
they died - fatally. Everybody from that era seems to have died from death. Tragic.
Hey guys, this video is missing it's music and the transition images are missing their title cards in the editing
I absolutely love all the names he used for meth😂
Not the same thing. Methamphetamine and amphetamine are different
@@doanexus6173 lol but have u ever even done drugs
@@zachgordon99 have you taken speed or meth?
@@zachgordon99 and yeah iv taken speed but fuck meth that shits a million times worse.
@@doanexus6173 They're both terrible in the same way but meth ruins you faster.
You really stretched this concept out lol cheers
I had some pills once an upper meant for hyper active kids ,my friends went and partied ,I fell asleep.,bloody weird brain chemistry!
You might have add or adhd
Amphetamines are used for the treatment of these
@RedWolf, from what I know, that is a typical response for someone with ADHD needing a dosage adjustment. Some dosages stimulate a quicker release of brain chemicals that facilitate sleep.
Red, if it was just a small dose, some people the mild intoxication does make them want to sleep. Or, yes you could have add/hd, and I guess one of the tests for that is, if cocaine makes you unpleasantly anxious, but amphetamines make you feel calm and pretty much ready for a nap
Great content
This is only seen as a big deal because it's a controlled substance now, and because the commenters aren't considering the circumstances of the time.
They could die at any second from a flak burst, you think they cared about the tiny risks associated with giving healthy young men a stimulant? If I was on a bomber crew I would make sure the man responsible for manning the only weapon stopping us from being shot from the sky by a fighter, was as alert as possible.
In 70 years people will probably be making smug jokes about the old days when school children were given speed (ritalin etc) to help them concentrate.
Way less dangerous than alcohol or bullets
This is some real talk though. We should ALREADY be making smug jokes about parents who put their kids on ritalin. Why wait 70 years?
To this day I’m angry my mom put me in that. And then I needed sleep meds at night. Now how does that make sense lmao
@@unknownsource8481 I would never give me kids those drugs. Food and Sleep are more important than good grades for a growing kid.
My bro and son have adhd. Both were reccomended ritalin. My brother had it (early 90s). It has fucked him up really badly now hes grown. As for my son I remember getting pretty angry at a doctor who kept insisting he needed it. Turns out never has took it, needed it and hes a well adjusted young man. Point is these doctors lie to parents and those parents dont always know the truth. My son was lucky, but at the cost of my brother suffering.
I’ve learned so many new names for “weed” in this video
Refined Amphetamine Salts were one of the greatest utilized and worst abused substances in history.
In combat it allowed soldiers to stay awake days on end with reduced or absent hunger. The nootropic effects were only second to pure nicotine. Soldiers could operate and think clearly while engaging the enemy for hours on end, with a calming or euphoric effect.
Taking above 80mg within a stretch of a few days leads to an increase in tolerance, requiring more to feel the effects. The withdrawls could range from minor to extreme with depression and suicidal tendencies in some cases.
The side effects were just as great with hallucinations, mania, irrational aggression, and paranoia being prominent, with long term abuse leading to heart and cardiovascular illnesses and nervous system damage later in life.
You still need nutrients and calories. Drugs won’t break the laws of physics.
@@AYVYN A human can go months without food, but yes caloric intake is necessary for survival. From my experience, I needed anywhere from none to around 500 a day to keep going.
@@the36lessons11 My intelligence takes a big hit under 1800 calories. I’m sure the generals were always eating well
Same with the speed in common use today Adderall. And caffeine
This was nutty.
I wish Pervintin was legal I want to try it. My grandpa said it was great! Lol
so strange to think that bag of speed thats sitting on my counter has such origins
I was at an airforce museum one time and in the vietnam exhibit they had amphetamine salt in a glass vial. It looked like it was for intravenous use but im not sure.
Nice vid!
Hypocritical?? We want to legalize pot but dont smoke cigarettes.
Lmao you clowns think you know it all.
Government can change ingredients in anything it wants and you would believe everything the FDA , CDC , or the television has to say..pffff
@@robertsmith7637 Are you kiddin me? I've turned into almost a bonified tin foil hat wearin Art Bell type
Anyone notice how he showed Alexander Fleming instead of the German chemist? Just thought y'all might wanna know lol
Yeah lol I was searching the comments to see if anyone else had picked up on it