ill-famed dictators may not be the people we typically tie in with chalk , but a report claims that , during World War II , Adolf Hitler regularly have methamphetamines for a variety of ailments , let in the drug Pervitin , a precursor to crystal meth .
Last year , letters written by Heinrich Böll — who was conscripted into the Wehrmacht during World War II and later went on to win the Nobel Prize in lit — confirmed that some Nazi soldier took Pervitin , which was billed as an “ alertness aid . ” The drug was deal by Berlin - establish drug maker Temmler Werke starting in 1938 , and British newspaper at the clock time reported that many soldier were taking this “ miracle drug . ”
The Independentis report that a wartime dossier collect by American military intelligence reveals that Hitler also get this miracle drug . Supposedly , the dossier list 74 unlike medicinal drug that Hitler took , include injection of Vitamultin , which contains methamphetamine , and the aforesaid Pervitin . The dossier further claims that Hitler learn methamphetamine before his final meeting with Benito Mussolini in July , 1943 . It paint Hitler as a person who became increasingly strung-out on drugs , notably meth .
There is one wrinkle in this report , though . The Independent does n’t quote from the dossier itself , but instead cite Bill Panagopoulos , “ an American collector who divulge the dossier . ” And the report comes out as a docudrama about the dossier , Hitler ’s Hidden Drug Habit , is about to send on Channel 4 in the UK . We ’ll have to see if other root verify the authenticity of this dossier ( and stand behind the reliableness of the tidings ) , although it for sure seems plausible that , like his soldiers , Hitler get Pervitin . And we do know that Hitler did sometimes receive chicken feed treatments from his physician Theodor Morell ; tests of packets containing Vitamultin , a substance Morell dictate to Hitler , have been discover to have contained methamphetamine . So we do know there was at least some methamphetamine hydrochloride in Hitler ’s medical regime . The interrogative sentence is whether the extra info this dossier provides , and the vision of a drug - addict Hitler it indicate , is accurate .
Hitler was ‘ a regular user of crystal meth ’ , American Military Intelligence dossier reveals[The Independent viaBoing Boing ]
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