Pervitin: Nazis’ Meth-Fueled War Machine

Welcome to Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups. I'm your host, Ben Carter. In the blood-soaked

theaters of World War II, a hidden chemical war raged beneath the surface,

a war that was not fought with bullets and bombs, but with pills and powders.

This was the drug-fueled campaign that fueled the Nazi war machine, a chilling tale of human engineering

in the service of a brutal ideology. At the heart of this story lies a little blue pill

known as Pervitin. This was no ordinary medication. It was methamphetamine, a powerful stimulant

that could keep soldiers awake for days on end, dull their senses to the horrors of

warfare, and instill in them a sense of invulnerability. Manufactured by the German pharmaceutical