Nazi Drug Usage

by BleedBluee

I've always been so interested in Hilter and the Nazi. It's incredible to me even though obviously evil and wrong how much they've been able to accomplish. I've been living in Berlin the last 8 weeks and this is taken my interest to another level, and i wanted to ask a few questions about some theories I've been thinking about the Nazi's and how they were so smart and created so much in such a short amount of time

My first questions are about drug usage, largely with Hilter and the scientists and engineers creating weapons of mass destruction and murdering thousands of people. After doing some research I saw that Nazi's gave a drug called D-IX to their soldiers, which was one part amphetamines, one part cocaine, and one part oxycodone. This got me thinking that maybe the scientists and Hitler himself had been using drugs to keep working around the clock and maximize their evil genius. So what I'm asking is whether their is research that supports this theory. Were the nazi's taking drugs to fuel their empire?

My second theory is about the evil energy that they were harnessing, and it sort of relates to my first question. Now whether or not they were using drugs they must have been fueled by evil spirits such as the devil himself or whatever dark entity looms on earth. So my theory is that with all the evil dark science, war, and murder going about the Nazi's tapped into the powers of the devil and used this to create all their weapons of mass destruction. That some how their plans were promoting by tapping into evil energy and this energy helped them to continue to thrive, until the end of WW2. I would love to hear what you guys think of this and any information you have on the subject would be much appreciated.

Superplaner

As for the use of drugs, primarily pervitin, in the wehrmacht during WW2 I highly recommend this and this post by /u/commiespaceinvader who knows more about the subject than probably any other historian here. As for D-IX it was just an experimental drug that was produced in very limited numbers in a lab in Kiel and primarily dirstributed among a small number of midget submarine operators.

As for your second theory, this is askhistorians, we deal in things that happened in reality. I don't know what sub your should take your theories about tapping into evil energies to but this ain't it.

As for your overall assertions, I don't agree and I don't think many historians do. The nazis were not on average smarter than the allies or any other particular participant in the war. They did not create things that were particularly noteworthy compared to other participants in the war. The were successful initially largely due to a combination of factors that were ultimately unsustainable for any other purpose than a war of aggression and once they had capitalized on their early successes the war quickly turned against germany. I recommend this thread by /u/prufrock451 for a very thurough rundown of the german war economy.