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🗓️ 10 December 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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In a podcast episode with award-winning author and screenwriter Norman Ohler, Dr. Puder and Dr. Borecky discussed Ohler’s recent book, Blitzed, about how the Third Reich used drugs to optimize performance during World War II and how it may have changed the course of history.
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Psychiatry and Psychothermic Podcast. |
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0:35.8 | Our welcome back to the podcast. |
0:38.6 | Before we begin this episode with Norman Holer and Adam Brecke, I wanted to introduce |
0:45.6 | the idea that we're going to be talking about today and give you some a little bit of |
0:50.3 | scientific sort of knowledge before we start the episode. |
0:54.9 | So in this episode, we are going to be discussing methamphetamines, Nazi Germany Hitler. |
1:01.3 | We're going to be talking about war and how in war they used methamphetamines and methamphetamines |
1:10.0 | to basically act as a performance enhancer. |
1:14.6 | And we're talking about tablets of pervitin, which are three milligrams of methamphetamine. |
1:26.6 | And usually they would take three to five of these, or maybe the course of a couple hours |
1:33.0 | or a couple days. |
1:35.2 | We know that 35 million dosages were ordered before the blitzkrieg, which we'll talk about |
1:42.7 | the details of that when Germany invaded France and three million German troops marched |
1:50.2 | 22 miles per day under fire. |
1:53.6 | So those 35 million dosages were split up between those three million German troops. |
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