All this is pretty well known about drug use in WWII - this piece is written as if it's all an amazing discovery. Blitzkrieg was achieved with drugs, Allied bomber pilots were given amphetamines etc etc
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_and_culture_of_substituted_amphetamines#Military_use" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_and_culture_of_substit...</a>
The ultimate performance enhancing drug the Germans prototyped was D-IX which was not mentioned in the article. Each tablet contained 5 mg of oxycodone, 5 mg of cocaine and 3 mg of methamphetamine, so it was potent stuff.<p>> German researchers found that equipment-laden test subjects (inmates from Sachsenhausen concentration camp) could march in a circle for up to 90 kilometers per day without rest while carrying a 20 kilogram backpack.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-IX" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-IX</a>
A good read. Not exactly hacker news material, but I'm glad I read it. I had no idea that Hitler ran out of drugs two months before he killed himself. We all knew about drug abuse in the Third Reich, but the personal addiction of Hitler is less well known.