"Magic pill" that give them superhuman strength Nazis

The German invasion during World War II caused great fear and intimidation to Europe before the Third Reich soldiers. However, current research shows that German soldiers are not only inspired by the fiery rhetoric of Hitler, but their commitment to the war was partly a consequence of pills called "year". At this medicine label wrote that the tool serves to increase the "standby" and that should take in order to "preserve syçeltësia" this substance is known today as crystal metamfetamin or decisions.

In the period 1939-1945 were distributed about 200 million such pills that soldiers called "chocolate tanks".

British press at the time reported that the German soldiers taking "magic pills" is also known that Hitler took his dose of this drug but intravenously.

The real situation was much worse - soldiers suffering from reliance. Although the pills were allowed to be pretty stable for long intervals of intense physical activity, adverse occurrences were terrible, fainting, sweating, depression and hallucinations.

As written transmits a newspaper Koha.net D. Avaz, some of the soldiers had fatal heart problems, while others commit suicide during psychotic episodes.

The seriousness of the consequences "year" show the soldiers leave the efforts of Leonardo Conti, one of the leaders, health experts Third Reich, to limit the use of this narcotic, but they were useless.