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Part Two: Hitler's Drug Problem

Behind the Bastards

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I Don't Take Preventant, Just Wants to Try It

German soldiers at the wrong end of a meth bender found themselves exhausted, sick, and surrounded by an enemy just waiting to counteract them. Norman Oler quotes one German military doctor the time who wrote, I didn't take preventant myself, or at least not often, just wants to try it to know what I was prescribing. "It kept you awake mercilessly," he writes. 'You eventually had to catch up on the rest you'd missed'

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