The Third Reich's Secret Fuel Was...Chocolate?

Описание: Did you know "Panzerschokolade" wasn't just candy?
Housewives in Berlin ate these chocolates for "extra energy" without knowing what was inside. The myth of the German army's iron endurance often overlooks one key ingredient: chemistry.
The Third Reich operated at full throttle not just because of ideology, but because of pills that kept soldiers awake for three days straight.
Pervitin, the drug that changed the face of Blitzkrieg, was cheaper and easier to get than coffee in those days.

This is the true history of how Germany ran on methamphetamine. From the front lines to Hitler's personal physician, from factory workers to Luftwaffe pilots, the Third Reich was a nation on speed.

Full documentary based on declassified sources, medical diaries, and letters from the front.
The forgotten history they never taught you in school.


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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Norman Ohler – Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
Medical diaries of Theodor Morell
Heinrich Böll's letters from the front
Odd Nansen's memoirs from Sachsenhausen concentration camp
David Irving – The Secret Diaries of Hitler's Doctor (Focal Point, 1983)
Bundesarchiv Koblenz – Dr. Theodor Morell's notes
Institut für Zeitgeschichte München (Institute for Contemporary History, Munich)
National Archives Washington (NARA)
Gedenkstätte Sachsenhausen (Sachsenhausen Memorial)
Peter Steinkamp – research on military medicine in the Third Reich (Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt / Military History Research Office)
Wolf Kemper – criminological research on D-IX
Heinrich Böll's letters – published by Der Spiegel (2011)



Image and Film Sources:
All photographs and visual materials used in this production are from the public domain.
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-H1216-0500-002 / CC-BY-SA


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