Usage of Pervitin

[AndyMa]

Brian,
I was also a little perplexed by your response to Junker's post.
Simply putting Pervatin into the forum search box produces all the previous discussion:
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/search.php?searchid=66658
I'm not sure why that qualifies for "thanks for nothing".
Andy

[BrianC]

Junker (why hide your real name?)

Please explain just what you mean by your rude and unwarranted remark:

If you are too lazy to write in the search field, then do not expect people to help you. Often seen by people who want others to do it for them.



I simply asked a simple question!

Keith: Thanks for the link but the video doesn't open!

Brian





Brian

[Nick Beale]

Right, I'm declaring a ceasefire here.

[kaki3152]

My two cents.. This is stupid. You cannot buy every book on a particular subject unless you're wealthy. I think Brian C is correct and LdZ should offer at least a perfunctory apology. As an amateur in this field, I will never have the time to go to archives or buy every everything I find interesting. .

[Carsten Petersen]

'Junker (why hide your real name?'


That is his real name

[Nick Beale]

Thread closed.

[Chris Going]

Anyone keen to follow up non-recreational pharmaceutical use use might, I think, make progress through a contemporary but secondary source lurking in AIR 57, in which are to be found the minutes of the Flying Personnel Research Committee (FPRC). This organization started life in January 1939, and was at that time much concerned with the use of stimulants. They were very much aware of Wehrmacht practice by the summer of 1940, and I imagine that the discovery of Pervitin in a crashed a/c would have been communicated by the relevant bit of AI to FPRC and is likely to have attracted a passing reference in their meeting minutes. A useful tour of the scene is Pugh, James (2011) ‘The Royal Air Force, Bomber Command and the use of Benzedrine Sulphate’. Journal of Contemporary History. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009416652717. Footnotes are useful with TNA references. Good hunting.

[BrianC]

Hi guys

A vague enquiry:

Is there any record/documentation of any Luftwaffe airman captured during August/September 1940 'suffering' the affects of Pervitin on interrogation?

Cheers
Brian

[VtwinVince]

That's a good question, although I'm wondering what sort of 'effects' those could be. Of course 'go-pills' are a staple of most modern armies, including our erstwhile 'friends' in Ukraine.

[edwest2]

Here's an overview from the period:

https://thesecuritydistillery.org/al...are-in-1939-45