Nazi Germany was on drugs. Taxi drivers, actors, secretaries, grocers, top businessmen — everyone was popping pills of crystal meth called Pervitin.
Ingesting speed aligned with the Nazi philosophy of Aryan superiority as it acted like the ultimate, though artificial, performance enhancer. People worked non-stop for hours, sometimes days, all furthering the interests of the Third Reich.
Soon the German war effort was run on it. Crystal meth made the German armed forces feel invincible, marching for days on end and fearlessly striding into combat. But it also increased foolhardiness and even psychosis, perhaps engineering an army and nation of fanatics.
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