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The German military's 'Sichelschnitt' (sickle cut) plan for the 1940 invasion of France involved a surprise tank offensive through the Ardennes Mountains, a strategy Adolf Hitler considered genius.
Dr. Otto Ranke, a German military physician, authored a "stimulant decree" that officially prescribed methamphetamine to the Wehrmacht for the invasion of France, specifying dosages and intervals.
The German pharmaceutical company Temmler was ordered to produce and deliver 35 million doses of methamphetamine to the Wehrmacht for the 1940 campaign against France.
The German Navy conducted human experiments on prisoners in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp to develop a drug that would keep mini-submarine crews awake for up to seven days.
Adolf Hitler issued a 'halt order' that stopped the German tank advance on Dunkirk, a decision influenced by Hermann Göring who was high on morphine.
Under the influence of the opioid Dolantin in August 1941, Adolf Hitler made the critical strategic decision to split the German army's advance in the Soviet Union, against the High Command's advice to focus on capturing Moscow.
Adolf Hitler served as the primary test subject for Dr. Morell's new medications; if Hitler approved of a substance, he would issue a decree making it legal, bypassing standard regulatory procedures.
High on the opioid Eukodal, Adolf Hitler dominated his July 1943 meeting with Benito Mussolini, successfully preventing the Italian leader from withdrawing Italy from the Axis powers.
By September 1944, Adolf Hitler was receiving intravenous injections of the opioid Eukodal every second day, a pattern consistent with addiction.
In the summer of 1944, Adolf Hitler was simultaneously using cocaine and the opioid Eukodal, a combination known as a 'speedball'.
British intelligence services reportedly abandoned plans to assassinate Adolf Hitler, concluding his poor decision-making while on drugs was more advantageous to the Allied war effort.
The Nazi SS conducted experiments with hallucinogenic substances, including mescaline and likely LSD, on inmates at the Dachau concentration camp in an effort to develop a truth drug.