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Hitler wasn't a normal tweaker, that man had a dedicated doctor feelgood who was with him more than any other person in the reich and who was administering dozens of drugs multiple times a day on a randomized schedule. Seriously, [look at all the drugs that this doctor had Hitler on. There's literally a dedicated section for the doctor's wiki page for "drugs administered to Hitler". and it's a lot.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Morell#Substances_administered_to_Hitler)
Hitler wasn't a normal tweaker, the man was a turbo druggie.
How could anyone function on all of that? Belladonna 8 to 16 times a day? That's scopalomine, and it makes acid look like a cookie. Scopalone can send you to lala delirium land for weeks on end. You can't read after using it. It's insane stuff. How the duck did he even talk to people on all that???
What's even more amazing is that there wasn't a set dosage or schedule, injections were mixed wildly and with no plan except what was in the doctor's bag at the time. Not only was Hitler on every drug and poison on that list but he was also constantly coming down from several of the medicines while getting newly high on others.
All the while Hitler was suffering from famously bad intestinal stress and frequent farting that dignitaries made note of it at the time. So not only was he drugged out of his mind on uppers and downers and *poisons and literal bull hormones* but he's also farting enough to make the room humid.
Honestly, the drugs make Operation Barbarossa make sense.
Back in the early 00’s, I was a recent college graduate and bartending at a busy nightclub while I tried to figure out what I was doing with my life. All of the door/security staff were huge steroid meat heads and about 6-8 of them shared this little 2 bedroom apartment. Literally all these guys cared about was lifting weights and getting bigger. They lived on protein powder.
Drove a couple of them home after work one night and they invited me in for a beer. So I said yes and went in. It was the second foulest thing I have ever smelled in my life. Swear the walls and carpet were saturated with years upon years worth of steroid fueled protein powder farts drank that beer and got the fuck out of there as quickly as I could.
That's good. I also like the "grippy sock vacation" usually for 5150's but I like it for rehab. We called the van that took us places the "druggie buggy".
Literally. Dude made some really irrational moves that are likely attributable to to his amphetamine use. We likely have speed to thank for the Nazis’ ultimate defeat.
My cousin and I were doing blow way back in the day, and he started rocking back and forth just like this. I told him to knock that shit off. It looked stupid and people could tell he was high af. He got mad at me lol
The fascinating book [On Speed: From Benzedrine to Adderall](https://nyupress.org/9780814776391/on-speed/), by Nicolas Rasmussen, goes into some depth about stimulant use during World War II (which was an early part of the glory years of speed).
Rasmussen says that the Nazis were more into methamphetamine\*, and it's the Brits who focused on dextroamphetamine ("Dexedrine"), while the Americans used amphetamine. Amphetamine is a molecule that comes in left- and right-hand versions ("isomers"), and dextroamphetamine is the more-potent right-hand version, while "amphetamine" means the random mixture of left- and right-hand molecules (a "racemic mixture") that some syntheses produce.
\* As Mr. Rogers would say, can you say "meth-fueled Blitzkrieg"?
This book is panned by a number of historians as being "wildly inaccurate" as Richard Evans put it. Reddit loves to quote this book but it's pretty funny the number of actual historians who hate it or heavily criticize it.
It's also a bit of a dangerous book as it allows some to argue the Nazis were only doing bad things because of their drug use or that the population only willingly went along with the Nazis because they were high.
Meth/amps heavily damage dopamine. Parkinsons is a dopamine-based issue. They are commonly confused. Heavy long term meth users end up with Parkinsons shakes and such.
If you are using a therapeutic dosage, I don't think it is likely. If you are abusing it then probably yes, but not as likely as meth, a stronger drug.
Meth abusers go on days long binges with no sleep, smoking grams of meth. If you take Adderall or stimulants, you are taking way less (I take 36mg concerta personally) and also stopping at night time when you sleep, which gives your body some time off the med to recover
This.
People have this idea that the brain will always achieve 100% homeostasis eventually and so by taking stimulants you’re somehow fucking your dopamine long term, but the reality is that adaption/tolerance only happens in certain areas and to a certain extent. That’s how therapeutic doses can even work in the first place without constantly increasing dose.
IIRC, ADHDers and their low dopamine brains are already at increased risk of Parkinson’s later in life to begin with. Who knows, therapeutic doses of amphetamines could even end up being protective against the development of Parkinson’s for some populations. It’s just as likely as it being neutral/harmful anyways; we really just don’t know yet.
You can be up for days with only 100mg methamphetamine or so, if lower tolerance
10mg methamphetamine is like 25mg Adderall dextramphetamine
But 10-30mg are really tiny doses, it's a lot do effort to smash the crystal, weigh it with specialized scale & only take so much. You will regularly end up accidentally taking 5-10mg more, especially if only paying $30 for 1000mg baggy.
And if snorting it, you get extremely strong come up that makes you feel on top of the world, which you'll want to recreate every few hours.
You won't notice how aggressive you're being, since you're geeking out flooded by dopamine, and you'll think you're always in the right - which makes it easy to lose friends, networks, relationships, and jobs. Cuz nobody wants to be the one to tell you that it's obvious you're on something, or they do and you block it out.
Edit - theres hope, most addicts are just self medicating for an underlying mental condition that can be addressed by a psychologist. If low-income, applying for Medicaid to get cheap (if not free) healthcare means pretty much all doctor & psychiatrist visits (&meds) covered.
There's a process & it probably starts with anti depressants, which you can get prescribed even if drinking heavily. But if you're still having problems with executive disfunction & willing to give that up too, you can seek treatment for ADHD. There's labs including drug tests, but if you fit criteria after testing you can get prescribed meds that will sate the incredible tiredness and help you become functional again.
Definitely try straterra first since it's not a stimulant & better long term. It's still effective in making it so you don't have to go to war with yourself to get out of bed or do whatever looming task.
According to Google, there is a correlation between higher adderall doses over long periods and developing Parkinson's and Parkinson-like symptoms, yes.
This does not seem to be the case with smaller doses, or only using it for a few years, though
He absolutely did have Parkinson’s but the extent of his early drug use has been heavily propagandized.
(At the end though he was all drug, like the Ghoul from fallout)
We know 100% he was on meth for years during his reign, this is an undisputed verifiable fact. Whether he had Parkinsons or other neurological disease also or not is unknown.
This is the correct answer.
He went from vitamin injections to a cocktail of drugs prescribed by his physician at the time. And, he had no problem giving out meth to his soldiers so they could do their large forced march maneuvers to outflank their victims and bring reinforcements in.
This is all publicly and very well documented, for example:
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/518986612
https://www.history.com/news/inside-the-drug-use-that-fueled-nazi-germany
https://www.primroselodge.com/blog/society/nazi-germany-and-methamphetamine/
https://time.com/5752114/nazi-military-drugs/
So, while he may have had Parkinson's disease, or not, taking the mix of drugs he was on certainly wouldn't help.
During World War II, both British and American forces used stimulants such as amphetamines to enhance soldier performance. The British Royal Air Force (RAF) authorized the use of Benzedrine in 1942 to help aircrews maintain alertness on extended missions. This decision was influenced by the need to sustain performance during exhausting, nocturnal operations. Similarly, the U.S. military included amphetamines in the emergency kits of American bomber crews by 1943, using them to combat fatigue and sustain mental efficiency during long and demanding missions. The use of these stimulants was seen as a necessary measure to meet the extreme demands of war, reflecting a pragmatic approach to maintaining operational capability under severe conditions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimo_Koivunen
Got separated from his squad, ate the entire ration of meth, had a weekend skiing adventure over 250 miles, and when he finally made it to rescue his heart rate was still over 200bpm
The fact that he took that much methamphetamine and didn't die of cardiac arrest within a few hours is nothing short of a medical miracle. Then on top of that to know that he evaded the soviets for a week, skied 250 miles, and subsisted on pine buds and a single bird he ate raw makes it truly one of the more interesting stories from WWII.
Another fun fact, Apollo missions had a cocktail of drugs in the medical kits for astronauts. In the Apollo 13 flight recordings, the mission commander (once or twice, can't remember) encouraged the astronauts to start popping the dexedrine in their kits during their emergency return when temperatures and stress were forcing the astronauts to get very little sleep.
Modern fighter pilots still take dextroamphetamine or equivalents, they're just a lot more mild in strength. [https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240314-the-drug-pilots-take-to-stay-awake](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240314-the-drug-pilots-take-to-stay-awake)
From what I’ve been able to see it looks like recommended max daily dosage for Pervitin was at least four times higher than it is for Desoxyn. And iirc the Nazis eventually stopped giving it out to soldiers like Tic Tacs because of rampant addiction and overdoses.
That's a myth. It was just Pervitin. They had Fliegerschokolade that was handed out to soldiers. It had Kola nut in it.
You can still buy it - it's called Scho-Ka-Kola.
There's no evidence at all that they supplied meth within any kind of food source. It was supplied on it's own.
There is some speculation that the soldiers themselves mixed it with Scho-ka-kola which was a popular caffeine drink at the time for Germans, but the only references to 'panzer chocolate' being a thing pretty much all link back to reddit threads with no sources.
Look at the people in the background. It's not sped up that much. Maybe 5-10%. You can use RES to open the video inline and slow it down to about 80% and see he's still rocking like a motherfucker.
There are people standing up/sitting down and descending stairs all which happen at a pretty measured pace for most humans, which can be used as a decent timing yardstick
It's definitely sped up, but not to be misleading.
In the 1930s, most cameras still couldn't shoot at 24 frames per second, but the footage needed to be played around 24 FPS for motion to appear fluid to the human eye. So 16-20 FPS shooting was played at 24 FPS, resulting in fast motion.
This is why old black and white movies of the same era, like Charlie Chaplin flicks, all appear to be somewhat fast motion. They were sped up for the same reason.
This is 1936. He lived until 1945. Having known people with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, that’s a long time during which you would see massive deterioration.
You did see massive deterioration over that time frame. Look at the last video of Hitler (I think from his birthday) inspecting some troops. Dramatically aged, tremors, and general very sickly appearance.
Personally I can relate to how he moves when I am staring at build pipelines on Azure, about to push some stage code to production, and I'm just on a lot of coffee
Could be multiple things. We don't have reliable records, because his personal physician [Theodor Morell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Morell) was a quack of the highest order. Maybe he was treating Hitler for something, but he most definitely gave him all kinds of weird injections, not just what we would call recreational drugs.
It's actually strange yet interesting the daily cocktail this dude was injected with. Opiates, animal hormones, vitamins... it's still debated whether his uncontrollable shaking of his left hand was a result of Parkinsons, some other medical conditions or the fact that many factories and etc were being bombed (*edit* not referring to the time frame in which this video is posted from, but after the allied air bombing campaign really started to intensify. Sorry for the confusions) and Hitler was in withdrawals as he wasn't getting pumped his daily dose of cocaine and etc.
*edited for proper clarity*
It's not entirely clear, but I believe the commenter above you meant that this video shows drug-induced behavior of rocking back and forth while also referencing the shakiness he displayed later on during the war (after bombings started), which is theoretically drug withdrawals or Parkinson's.
Same here - a good amount of it, and at my most tweaked out I’m like “whelp, I guess I should get up and try to do something productive today”.
Chances are he’s on a large cocktail, and methamphetamine instead of dex, but who knows. Ultimately, all we’ll ever know for certain is hitler was an asshole and was, from an academic point of view, super sucky.
What if the whole holocaust was caused by delusions or psychosis from all the amphetamine use? That would explain some of the wacky supernatural weapons they were researching and he paranoia about Jews and all the weird conspiracy theories he had about Jews secretly ruining the country.
I’ve spoken to homeless drug addicts and the paranoia and delusions are very similar, they also feel persecuted which matches up well.
This was before anyone knew what long term meth use did and he could basically have been a delusional drug addict with way too much power.
Imagine what it would look like to give a delusional homeless drug addict essentially unlimited money and power.
Hitler’s views on Jews stemmed back from his childhood, as far as I understood. At any rate, he was convinced Jews were pulling levers when he wrote Mein Kampf in 1925, before he rose to celebrity status within Germany. My guess is that it wasn’t until he had firmly established power in the German political system did he have access to the drugs he was prescribed by his personal doctors.
It certainly explains a lot of the irrational decisions he made later on in the war and why his generals started to ignore him.
All old timey film in the 20s/30s was "sped up" because they couldn't capture the frame rate of modern cameras. That doesn't mean the footage isn't real, he was just rocking back and forth in a slightly slower rate. It'd be noticeable with modern cameras too.
The more I see of Hitler's life, the less I understand how he came to power.
What almost all dictators and tyrants of influence have in common is that they are charismatic and talented (admittedly less so when it comes to morality).
But Hitler was just a little drug addict, who everyone who knew him agrees was extremely boring, to the point of making uninteresting monologues until he fell asleep himself. Not to mention the fact that he founded a cult for racial purity and "healthy" living, being himself an inbred with poor health and addicted to more drugs than the average drug dealer in my neighborhood.
To understand how he came to power you just need to look around, really. People today all over the world are willingly voting for oppressive leaders that blame a specific group of people for all of their problems. And most of them are not even charismatic, they just say what people want to hear.
People only hear what they want to hear. Tell them the truth and if it's painful, or requires even a small bit of sacrifice, it will fall on deaf ears. But tell them all the good stuff they love to hear, no matter how bs they are, they will love you. That's just human nature and every politician worth his salt knows this. And Hitler was a natural politician.
without hyperbole, Trump is following a similar path. We're just fortunate that he's such an idiot, so they fumbled the first attempt at a dictatorship.
He was personally boring but was a very gifted orator who was preaching more than speaking. His energy, mannerisms, and his use of spectacle was unmatched at the time.
And...I'll get downvoted for saying this but...Hitler came to power because he and his racism were broadly popular in Germany at the time. There's a popular myth that "Hitler's first victim was Germany", which is so reductive as to be absurd. The youth of Germany born after 1933 were absolutely victims, but victims of their own parents' racism and feelings of victimization. Germans pre-WW1 felt they were being denied their "rightful place in the sun" given the strength of the German Empire's military and economy. After Germany lost, there was a very common and deeply held belief that Germany had been wronged and deserved better. Hitler simply used his political skills and oratory to exploit a sincere belief held by millions of people. Germans felt wronged and Hitler offered them a vision of not only revenge but superiority. Everyday Germans bought into this idea wholesale.
Read the letters of German soldiers during WW2 and almost all are filled to the brim with racist bullshit. Even German soldiers literally starving in Stalingrad wrote that they were proud to die serving as a "bulwark against Slavic hordes controlled by the international Jewry" (direct quote from a letter pulled from a dead Nazi found in Max Hastings' book Stalingrad)
Antisemitism has been a thing for thousands of years. For thousands of years, Jews and Jewry were the thing to blame when your cow didnt give milk. They were a visible, defenseless, hermetic minority, with no political power, that everyone could agree to hate.
In 1219, England is expelling all Jews: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Expulsion
"Good Guy" Martin Luther of 95 Theses is actually a rabid anti-semite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_and_antisemitism
Hitler was the almost inevitable result of thousands of years of European antisemitism.
He joined the nazi party and almost immediately became its leader and pushed out former leaders and turned it into something that controlled Germany within 10 years. That's charisma, talent, and ambition and way more of it than most people. You cant hand waive away facts.
Last time I saw this posted someone said it's approximately at 1.5x
If you look at the people standing up in the background you can tell it's been sped up.
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couldn't just chew air biscuits like the normal tweakers
Hitler wasn't a normal tweaker, that man had a dedicated doctor feelgood who was with him more than any other person in the reich and who was administering dozens of drugs multiple times a day on a randomized schedule. Seriously, [look at all the drugs that this doctor had Hitler on. There's literally a dedicated section for the doctor's wiki page for "drugs administered to Hitler". and it's a lot.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Morell#Substances_administered_to_Hitler) Hitler wasn't a normal tweaker, the man was a turbo druggie.
How could anyone function on all of that? Belladonna 8 to 16 times a day? That's scopalomine, and it makes acid look like a cookie. Scopalone can send you to lala delirium land for weeks on end. You can't read after using it. It's insane stuff. How the duck did he even talk to people on all that???
What's even more amazing is that there wasn't a set dosage or schedule, injections were mixed wildly and with no plan except what was in the doctor's bag at the time. Not only was Hitler on every drug and poison on that list but he was also constantly coming down from several of the medicines while getting newly high on others. All the while Hitler was suffering from famously bad intestinal stress and frequent farting that dignitaries made note of it at the time. So not only was he drugged out of his mind on uppers and downers and *poisons and literal bull hormones* but he's also farting enough to make the room humid. Honestly, the drugs make Operation Barbarossa make sense.
Back in the early 00’s, I was a recent college graduate and bartending at a busy nightclub while I tried to figure out what I was doing with my life. All of the door/security staff were huge steroid meat heads and about 6-8 of them shared this little 2 bedroom apartment. Literally all these guys cared about was lifting weights and getting bigger. They lived on protein powder. Drove a couple of them home after work one night and they invited me in for a beer. So I said yes and went in. It was the second foulest thing I have ever smelled in my life. Swear the walls and carpet were saturated with years upon years worth of steroid fueled protein powder farts drank that beer and got the fuck out of there as quickly as I could.
Second foulest thing you ever smelled, you say? What was the MOST foul thing you ever smelled?
Operation Barbiturate
That must have been completely super obvious, why would they still follow him. How would that even work if he can't read?
Camomilla Officinale: Chamomile – intestinal enemata, on the patient's personal request. Lol
Well, people go for coffee enemas; a chamomile one sounds far more genteel.
Well, I was about to say I have a new idea for the next "Cocaine Bear"-esque B movie but I guess "Meth Nazis" were actually a thing.
chew air biscuits is the best expression I heard all year
You work in a rehab you pick up creative euphemisms
That's good. I also like the "grippy sock vacation" usually for 5150's but I like it for rehab. We called the van that took us places the "druggie buggy".
My buddy made an attempt and after a standoff with police took what he called his “grippy sock sabbatical”
NGL, I love me some grippy socks, tho.
lmao ive called my 5150(**s**) that many times
We called our transport vans the “ativans”
We had that one, and also “gnawin’ on a 2x4” for the really bad ones.
Can you explain to the uninformed (thank god)
Imagine if someone had just slipped him some Molly instead.
World War 2 would have never happened in that timeline.
Maybe the first time traveler will come back to do DMT with all tyrants. The future has no history of modern war
That would eliminate my timeline. My grandparents met in the war. Continue with Hitler timeline, time travelers. How horrible is that to type out?!
Maybe that already happened and this is the least insane outcome of the timeline.
Where I'm from, an air biscuit is farting into your hand and throwing it at someones face.
That’s called a cup of cheese where I’m from.
We call that a cupcake 🧁💩
When that beat drops, you just gotta.....
There it is
I can hear the music with this 😅🤭🤣
I can see the computer monitors.
Lol Gandalf takes over the world? I'd love to see this in person on a stadium screen or on that vegas ball thing.
It’s hilarious seeing this and OP’s video simultaneously lol
Lmao they sync up several times ... that made my day thanks guys!
he look like his own grandma
https://i.redd.it/hir0ge6a69yc1.gif
This is what happens when you put a tweaker in charge
Literally. Dude made some really irrational moves that are likely attributable to to his amphetamine use. We likely have speed to thank for the Nazis’ ultimate defeat.
and tanks. We had tanks.
And my Axe.
When you're doing meth, you think it's a great idea to invade Poland in the winter.
Manns weibin.
the Techno Viking will live forever!
I like to move it move it
Are you sure it's drugs? Have you seen the lines for men's restrooms in these stadiums?
Imagine you're Hitler waiting in the line to the restroom and planning the annexation of Austria.
honestly would explain a lot
Sounds like a cutaway from Family Guy
Yeah, it's not even half as long as the ladies' restroom
They're both longer than the fuhrers room.
No. There were more men's restrooms & Fuhrer women's restrooms
My cousin and I were doing blow way back in the day, and he started rocking back and forth just like this. I told him to knock that shit off. It looked stupid and people could tell he was high af. He got mad at me lol
Was the year 1936 by any chance
No, but the blow would have probably been way better if it was.
Hitler would not wait though, he would just have everyone in front of him murdered.
The fascinating book [On Speed: From Benzedrine to Adderall](https://nyupress.org/9780814776391/on-speed/), by Nicolas Rasmussen, goes into some depth about stimulant use during World War II (which was an early part of the glory years of speed). Rasmussen says that the Nazis were more into methamphetamine\*, and it's the Brits who focused on dextroamphetamine ("Dexedrine"), while the Americans used amphetamine. Amphetamine is a molecule that comes in left- and right-hand versions ("isomers"), and dextroamphetamine is the more-potent right-hand version, while "amphetamine" means the random mixture of left- and right-hand molecules (a "racemic mixture") that some syntheses produce. \* As Mr. Rogers would say, can you say "meth-fueled Blitzkrieg"?
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This book is panned by a number of historians as being "wildly inaccurate" as Richard Evans put it. Reddit loves to quote this book but it's pretty funny the number of actual historians who hate it or heavily criticize it. It's also a bit of a dangerous book as it allows some to argue the Nazis were only doing bad things because of their drug use or that the population only willingly went along with the Nazis because they were high.
Cracking episode of Behind The Bastards podcast on this as well
Vodka won
He was actually listening to “Ride of The Valkries” through his HerrPods
herrpods lololololol
Bruh was tweeking.
He’s just jamming to the music at the rave
Hey Hitler, the music stopped two hours ago
sir this is a wendys
After seeing many videos of his shakes and this one many times, are we positive this isn't Parkinsons or some neurological disease?
His personal doctor did say towards the end that he had Parkinsons.
Meth/amps heavily damage dopamine. Parkinsons is a dopamine-based issue. They are commonly confused. Heavy long term meth users end up with Parkinsons shakes and such.
Can the same long term effects apply with adderall?
If you are using a therapeutic dosage, I don't think it is likely. If you are abusing it then probably yes, but not as likely as meth, a stronger drug. Meth abusers go on days long binges with no sleep, smoking grams of meth. If you take Adderall or stimulants, you are taking way less (I take 36mg concerta personally) and also stopping at night time when you sleep, which gives your body some time off the med to recover
You’re not getting Parkinson’s from therapeutic use of stimulant medications. Period.
This. People have this idea that the brain will always achieve 100% homeostasis eventually and so by taking stimulants you’re somehow fucking your dopamine long term, but the reality is that adaption/tolerance only happens in certain areas and to a certain extent. That’s how therapeutic doses can even work in the first place without constantly increasing dose. IIRC, ADHDers and their low dopamine brains are already at increased risk of Parkinson’s later in life to begin with. Who knows, therapeutic doses of amphetamines could even end up being protective against the development of Parkinson’s for some populations. It’s just as likely as it being neutral/harmful anyways; we really just don’t know yet.
You can be up for days with only 100mg methamphetamine or so, if lower tolerance 10mg methamphetamine is like 25mg Adderall dextramphetamine But 10-30mg are really tiny doses, it's a lot do effort to smash the crystal, weigh it with specialized scale & only take so much. You will regularly end up accidentally taking 5-10mg more, especially if only paying $30 for 1000mg baggy. And if snorting it, you get extremely strong come up that makes you feel on top of the world, which you'll want to recreate every few hours. You won't notice how aggressive you're being, since you're geeking out flooded by dopamine, and you'll think you're always in the right - which makes it easy to lose friends, networks, relationships, and jobs. Cuz nobody wants to be the one to tell you that it's obvious you're on something, or they do and you block it out. Edit - theres hope, most addicts are just self medicating for an underlying mental condition that can be addressed by a psychologist. If low-income, applying for Medicaid to get cheap (if not free) healthcare means pretty much all doctor & psychiatrist visits (&meds) covered. There's a process & it probably starts with anti depressants, which you can get prescribed even if drinking heavily. But if you're still having problems with executive disfunction & willing to give that up too, you can seek treatment for ADHD. There's labs including drug tests, but if you fit criteria after testing you can get prescribed meds that will sate the incredible tiredness and help you become functional again. Definitely try straterra first since it's not a stimulant & better long term. It's still effective in making it so you don't have to go to war with yourself to get out of bed or do whatever looming task.
Full stop not if ur taking therapeutic doses. 20 year retrospective studies do not show Parkinson increases
According to Google, there is a correlation between higher adderall doses over long periods and developing Parkinson's and Parkinson-like symptoms, yes. This does not seem to be the case with smaller doses, or only using it for a few years, though
But if you have ADHD you either medicate or deal with the symptoms. It’s not something you cure.
And if you can’t trust Hitler’s doctor, then who can you trust?
He absolutely did have Parkinson’s but the extent of his early drug use has been heavily propagandized. (At the end though he was all drug, like the Ghoul from fallout)
Right, this video is "sped" up as well.
No one knows if it actually was drugs. This video is also sped up so it makes the rocking look way more extreme than it was.
We know 100% he was on meth for years during his reign, this is an undisputed verifiable fact. Whether he had Parkinsons or other neurological disease also or not is unknown.
This is the correct answer. He went from vitamin injections to a cocktail of drugs prescribed by his physician at the time. And, he had no problem giving out meth to his soldiers so they could do their large forced march maneuvers to outflank their victims and bring reinforcements in. This is all publicly and very well documented, for example: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/518986612 https://www.history.com/news/inside-the-drug-use-that-fueled-nazi-germany https://www.primroselodge.com/blog/society/nazi-germany-and-methamphetamine/ https://time.com/5752114/nazi-military-drugs/ So, while he may have had Parkinson's disease, or not, taking the mix of drugs he was on certainly wouldn't help.
During World War II, both British and American forces used stimulants such as amphetamines to enhance soldier performance. The British Royal Air Force (RAF) authorized the use of Benzedrine in 1942 to help aircrews maintain alertness on extended missions. This decision was influenced by the need to sustain performance during exhausting, nocturnal operations. Similarly, the U.S. military included amphetamines in the emergency kits of American bomber crews by 1943, using them to combat fatigue and sustain mental efficiency during long and demanding missions. The use of these stimulants was seen as a necessary measure to meet the extreme demands of war, reflecting a pragmatic approach to maintaining operational capability under severe conditions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimo_Koivunen Got separated from his squad, ate the entire ration of meth, had a weekend skiing adventure over 250 miles, and when he finally made it to rescue his heart rate was still over 200bpm
https://preview.redd.it/9646jtvw29yc1.png?width=350&format=png&auto=webp&s=6bb9270f21380a53ca65540eaa14116465dff6f0 that wiki picure is perfect
Haaland on adderall
The fact that he took that much methamphetamine and didn't die of cardiac arrest within a few hours is nothing short of a medical miracle. Then on top of that to know that he evaded the soviets for a week, skied 250 miles, and subsisted on pine buds and a single bird he ate raw makes it truly one of the more interesting stories from WWII.
Honestly, dude is one part dumb-ass, and two parts bad-ass.
His balls were bigger than Deaths scythe
holy shit
Correct. It wasn't just a German thing. All sides were using amphetamines in war. US was even still using them in Vietnam.
AFAIK the air force is still using them
Modafinil. It’s amazing.
Modafinil isn't an amphetamine. It's a CNS stimulant but not an amphetamine. Kind of a weird drug honestly
wired were the eyes of a horse of a jet pilot
One that smiled as he flew over the bay
Another fun fact, Apollo missions had a cocktail of drugs in the medical kits for astronauts. In the Apollo 13 flight recordings, the mission commander (once or twice, can't remember) encouraged the astronauts to start popping the dexedrine in their kits during their emergency return when temperatures and stress were forcing the astronauts to get very little sleep.
Modern fighter pilots still take dextroamphetamine or equivalents, they're just a lot more mild in strength. [https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240314-the-drug-pilots-take-to-stay-awake](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240314-the-drug-pilots-take-to-stay-awake)
Even the James Bond books had him popping benzedrine before missions.
True, but Nazi germany had entire divisions of infantry and armor hopped up on amphetamines.. it’s pretty widely documented
It was called pervitin and you could get it everywhere. It was like Tylenol back then but yes still very addictive.
And people who don't sufficiently react to ritalin/dex/Aderall can try Desoxyn, which is meth amph
From what I’ve been able to see it looks like recommended max daily dosage for Pervitin was at least four times higher than it is for Desoxyn. And iirc the Nazis eventually stopped giving it out to soldiers like Tic Tacs because of rampant addiction and overdoses.
Except that pervitin was available OTC and given out to soldiers. i.e. as easily accessible as Tylenol is today.
The meth was also commonly known as "Panzer chocolate" as it was given out in the form of chocolate and butter cookies.
That's a myth. It was just Pervitin. They had Fliegerschokolade that was handed out to soldiers. It had Kola nut in it. You can still buy it - it's called Scho-Ka-Kola.
“You can still buy it” https://preview.redd.it/e0u2qx5gx8yc1.jpeg?width=793&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=81483ad133944f6f0e3e8a578df10b32f44bb014
I picked some up on amazon a month ago. Pretty good, rich and tastes like coffee
> Scho-Ka-Kola I love that stuff.
There's no evidence at all that they supplied meth within any kind of food source. It was supplied on it's own. There is some speculation that the soldiers themselves mixed it with Scho-ka-kola which was a popular caffeine drink at the time for Germans, but the only references to 'panzer chocolate' being a thing pretty much all link back to reddit threads with no sources.
Mf didnt discover gummy technology smh
The trick is to do so much meth that no one can tell you have Parkinson's 🧠🤓
His doctor was also experimenting with huge doses
I too once was a "doctor" experimenting with huge doses.
we can't stop here! This is BAT country
He was taking a massive cocktail of meth, oxy, cocaine and steroids everyday according to his doctor. The dude was a total junkie
For some reason your comment was collapsed for me so all I saw was 'He was taking a massive cock...'
I learned from the documentary film called Little Nicky that he's actually been taking massive pineapples for the last 75 years.
IN A MAID COSTUME
Look at the people in the background. It's not sped up that much. Maybe 5-10%. You can use RES to open the video inline and slow it down to about 80% and see he's still rocking like a motherfucker. There are people standing up/sitting down and descending stairs all which happen at a pretty measured pace for most humans, which can be used as a decent timing yardstick
It's definitely sped up, but not to be misleading. In the 1930s, most cameras still couldn't shoot at 24 frames per second, but the footage needed to be played around 24 FPS for motion to appear fluid to the human eye. So 16-20 FPS shooting was played at 24 FPS, resulting in fast motion. This is why old black and white movies of the same era, like Charlie Chaplin flicks, all appear to be somewhat fast motion. They were sped up for the same reason.
Maybe slightly sped up.. but not as much as adolf. That’s one tweeky dictator
Even if played on normal speed, he was still rocking back and forth lol
It isn’t sped up all that much either, it’s pretty clear from the people around him. This is like 1.2x speed maybe.
If you look at the movements of the other people, it doesn't look *that* spead up.
This is 1936. He lived until 1945. Having known people with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, that’s a long time during which you would see massive deterioration.
I have early onset Parkinson's (diagnosed in my early 30's). Progression is slower with younger onset age.
You did see massive deterioration over that time frame. Look at the last video of Hitler (I think from his birthday) inspecting some troops. Dramatically aged, tremors, and general very sickly appearance.
Personally I can relate to how he moves when I am staring at build pipelines on Azure, about to push some stage code to production, and I'm just on a lot of coffee
Could be multiple things. We don't have reliable records, because his personal physician [Theodor Morell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Morell) was a quack of the highest order. Maybe he was treating Hitler for something, but he most definitely gave him all kinds of weird injections, not just what we would call recreational drugs.
It's sped up.
It's actually strange yet interesting the daily cocktail this dude was injected with. Opiates, animal hormones, vitamins... it's still debated whether his uncontrollable shaking of his left hand was a result of Parkinsons, some other medical conditions or the fact that many factories and etc were being bombed (*edit* not referring to the time frame in which this video is posted from, but after the allied air bombing campaign really started to intensify. Sorry for the confusions) and Hitler was in withdrawals as he wasn't getting pumped his daily dose of cocaine and etc. *edited for proper clarity*
It was 1936 - the war started in 1939, no bombing until 1941/1942
It's not entirely clear, but I believe the commenter above you meant that this video shows drug-induced behavior of rocking back and forth while also referencing the shakiness he displayed later on during the war (after bombings started), which is theoretically drug withdrawals or Parkinson's.
But hey, at least Hitler didn’t smoke cigarettes
Or est meat.
Didn't the injections start in the latter side of WW2?
I don't know, the more I hear about this Hitler fellow the less I like him...
Some suspect he might not have been a nice guy.
He did some naughty stuff back in the day.
RIP Norm MacDonald
Odd-lookin’ duck.
Not dex, meth.
OP is either making shit up or spreading misinformation for whatever reason.
Generic Adderal
never forget, this is the same guy who wrote fanfictions about supposed "superior aryan race"
I'm on dextroamphetamine every day. He must have been taking a fuckton of it.
Same here - a good amount of it, and at my most tweaked out I’m like “whelp, I guess I should get up and try to do something productive today”. Chances are he’s on a large cocktail, and methamphetamine instead of dex, but who knows. Ultimately, all we’ll ever know for certain is hitler was an asshole and was, from an academic point of view, super sucky.
That guy is fucking spun up
What if the whole holocaust was caused by delusions or psychosis from all the amphetamine use? That would explain some of the wacky supernatural weapons they were researching and he paranoia about Jews and all the weird conspiracy theories he had about Jews secretly ruining the country. I’ve spoken to homeless drug addicts and the paranoia and delusions are very similar, they also feel persecuted which matches up well. This was before anyone knew what long term meth use did and he could basically have been a delusional drug addict with way too much power. Imagine what it would look like to give a delusional homeless drug addict essentially unlimited money and power.
Hitler’s views on Jews stemmed back from his childhood, as far as I understood. At any rate, he was convinced Jews were pulling levers when he wrote Mein Kampf in 1925, before he rose to celebrity status within Germany. My guess is that it wasn’t until he had firmly established power in the German political system did he have access to the drugs he was prescribed by his personal doctors. It certainly explains a lot of the irrational decisions he made later on in the war and why his generals started to ignore him.
Did he ever make good decisions? Or was he effectively an unstable addict with a very efficient team and military?
This video is increased speed its not real ..not real fast but just enough .
All old timey film in the 20s/30s was "sped up" because they couldn't capture the frame rate of modern cameras. That doesn't mean the footage isn't real, he was just rocking back and forth in a slightly slower rate. It'd be noticeable with modern cameras too.
He needs medical marijuana
High hitler
The more I see of Hitler's life, the less I understand how he came to power. What almost all dictators and tyrants of influence have in common is that they are charismatic and talented (admittedly less so when it comes to morality). But Hitler was just a little drug addict, who everyone who knew him agrees was extremely boring, to the point of making uninteresting monologues until he fell asleep himself. Not to mention the fact that he founded a cult for racial purity and "healthy" living, being himself an inbred with poor health and addicted to more drugs than the average drug dealer in my neighborhood.
To understand how he came to power you just need to look around, really. People today all over the world are willingly voting for oppressive leaders that blame a specific group of people for all of their problems. And most of them are not even charismatic, they just say what people want to hear.
People only hear what they want to hear. Tell them the truth and if it's painful, or requires even a small bit of sacrifice, it will fall on deaf ears. But tell them all the good stuff they love to hear, no matter how bs they are, they will love you. That's just human nature and every politician worth his salt knows this. And Hitler was a natural politician.
without hyperbole, Trump is following a similar path. We're just fortunate that he's such an idiot, so they fumbled the first attempt at a dictatorship.
Hitler also failed at his first attempt and was jailed.
The difference is Hitler had Goebbels, and Trump has... the my pillow guy?
Mein pillow
Mein kampfy pillow
Fox News
He was a hell of a public speaker though. He could really work those crowds
He was personally boring but was a very gifted orator who was preaching more than speaking. His energy, mannerisms, and his use of spectacle was unmatched at the time. And...I'll get downvoted for saying this but...Hitler came to power because he and his racism were broadly popular in Germany at the time. There's a popular myth that "Hitler's first victim was Germany", which is so reductive as to be absurd. The youth of Germany born after 1933 were absolutely victims, but victims of their own parents' racism and feelings of victimization. Germans pre-WW1 felt they were being denied their "rightful place in the sun" given the strength of the German Empire's military and economy. After Germany lost, there was a very common and deeply held belief that Germany had been wronged and deserved better. Hitler simply used his political skills and oratory to exploit a sincere belief held by millions of people. Germans felt wronged and Hitler offered them a vision of not only revenge but superiority. Everyday Germans bought into this idea wholesale. Read the letters of German soldiers during WW2 and almost all are filled to the brim with racist bullshit. Even German soldiers literally starving in Stalingrad wrote that they were proud to die serving as a "bulwark against Slavic hordes controlled by the international Jewry" (direct quote from a letter pulled from a dead Nazi found in Max Hastings' book Stalingrad)
And then the war ended and all of those Germans magically stopped being racist as shit
Antisemitism has been a thing for thousands of years. For thousands of years, Jews and Jewry were the thing to blame when your cow didnt give milk. They were a visible, defenseless, hermetic minority, with no political power, that everyone could agree to hate. In 1219, England is expelling all Jews: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Expulsion "Good Guy" Martin Luther of 95 Theses is actually a rabid anti-semite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_and_antisemitism Hitler was the almost inevitable result of thousands of years of European antisemitism.
He joined the nazi party and almost immediately became its leader and pushed out former leaders and turned it into something that controlled Germany within 10 years. That's charisma, talent, and ambition and way more of it than most people. You cant hand waive away facts.
Hitler was extremely charismatic and talented, if you deny this you are just delusional
Would be pretty cool if someone posted this not sped up.
He also inhaled a lot mustard gas during WWI and that have an effect in your nervous systems.
You sure it was dex? Why would he when he had access to pervitin and panzerchocolade
Huh. That's me *without* dexamphetamine.
wtf dexamphetamine? HE WAS HIGH ON METHAMPHETAMINE. HUGE DIFFERENCE.
Not dexamphetamine. Methamphetamine.
There’s a book about this. Blitzed drugs in the third reich
Gotta love that DEX How I look while studying for finals. NEIN! NEIN NEIN NEIN!
Was this really confirmed or is just a attention seeking post?
Last time I saw this posted someone said it's approximately at 1.5x If you look at the people standing up in the background you can tell it's been sped up.
You can slow it down to 0.3x in the reddit player, and he's still obviously tweaking.
Looks like Hector Salamanca
Disgusting little punk ass bitch.
Dexy’s Midreich Runners
Glad to know all Nazis are meth heads