Usage of Pervitin

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Originally Posted by John Vasco

Karl-Fritz Schröder, a Bordfunker with 13.(Z)/JG 5, told me that when he was shot down behind Russian lines, he spent three days heading back to the German lines. All he had to exist on was chocolate and pervitin. He hid during the day, and travelled stealthily at night. No sleep whatsoever during the whole time.

The usual German "flyer's chocolate" Scho-Ka-Kola was also caffeinated.

BTW: Beginning in 1944 the German army also ran a number of tests with cocaine, sometimes even mixed with methamphetamines or other stimulants. There were cocaine chewing gums and cocaine pills in operational use, at least with the midget submarine flottillas of the Kriegsmarine. So Pervitin was by far not the worst drug used by the Wehrmacht.