Is it True Meth Was Used By Hitler?
Posted on June 18, 2009 - Filed Under Health
Wikipedia relates the history of methamphetamine this way:
One of the earliest uses of methamphetamine was during World War II when the German military dispensed it. It was distributed throughout ranks and divisions. Chocolates dosed with methamphetamine were known as Fliegerschokolade (“airmen’s chocolate”) when given to pilots, or Panzerschokolade (“tank chocolate”) when given to tank crews. From 1942 until his death in 1945, Adolf Hitler may have been given intravenous injections of methamphetamine by his personal physician Theodor Morell as a treatment for depression and fatigue. It is possible that it was used to treat Hitler’s speculated Parkinson’s disease, or that his Parkinson-like symptoms which developed from 1940 onwards resulted from using methamphetamine.
After World War II, a large supply of amphetamine stockpiled by the Japanese military became available in Japan under the street name shabu (also Philopon, pronounced ヒロポン, or Hiropon, a tradename). The Japanese Ministry of Health banned it in 1951; since then it has been increasingly produced by the yakuza criminal organization. Today methamphetamine is still associated with the Japanese underworld, and its use is discouraged by strong social taboos.”
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