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Explanation: The Nazis used high doses of amphetamines and especially methamphetamine to give their soldiers 'staying power' in the field, part of why they overran France - some Nazi tankers were driving and fighting for a week straight without sleep or rest. Lower doses of extended release amphetamines are used in the modern day to treat ADHD. One imagines the occasional lone guy with ADHD and a pervitin pill was sitting under a tree and rethinking some life choices instead.
Is there a source for those claims?
About the use of amphetamines or the adhd part?
About tankers going for weeks and that being a reason they beat France.
https://newrepublic.com/article/141125/third-reich-addicted-drugs
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/05/pervitin-wonder-drug-that-fueled-nazi.html
Most sources cite the 'three days' demanded by Guederian, but I'm almost positive I've read accounts of individual Nazi tankers go 5-6 days without sleep during the Battle of France. I'll keep looking for the source on that.
AFAIK Theres also This case of a Finnish soldier taking hell a lot of Meth and walking 300km in 7 days through the snow right through enemy territory.
Tried to grab a pervitin pill with his mittens to stay awake, couldn't grab just one, so he just downed a handful, figuring it wouldn't be THAT big a deal.
Man took 30 pills, his entire's squads allocation, and completely blacked out. No memory of his journey, just operating on meth.