Nazism…one of the extremist totalitarian ideologies that made the twentieth century sick, along with Mussolini's fascism and Leninism (Lenin's Marxism). The German people, indoctrinated by Hitler's promising speeches, allowed anti-semitism to flourish, along with the idea that the "German people", descendants of the Aryan race, were proving a respectable racial superiority.

But today, we reveal the "miraculous secret" of the efficiency of the German army, which dominated the first years of World War II through the Blitzkrieg tactic. This term (Blitzkrieg = lightning war) describes a method of offensive warfare that consists of a quick and focused blow on an enemy using armored tanks and air support. Such an attack leads to a quick victory, but how was an army defeated in the previous war able to seize almost all of Europe in less than a year? The answer is seemingly simple, but for 60 years it has been completely ignored by formal historians.

The entire nation was addicted to pervitin, a methamphetamine-based drug. It was believed for a very long time that it would fight fatigue and the army would be able to attack for 17 days with the same intensity, without side effects.

The government developed a national marketing campaign, so that this drug, with a longer effect than cocaine, received as convincing publicity as the Coca-Cola brand. In the poster of this article I also added the advertising banner of the pervitin. Such a dose was sold at a LOWER price than COFFEE! Ha! An excellent tactic of the government to manipulate the masses to buy, in addition to everyday beer and bread, pervitin pills. This drug had become a substance of general consumption, which seemed to help the economy flourish through the dexterity of the workers, but also the army, through the inexhaustibility of the soldiers' energy.

Sales peaked when the weakening properties of amphetamine were promoted, so women had an extra reason to take this "miracle pill".

To better understand the effects of pervitin, we must consider the German offensive in the early years of the war in Europe. Poland, the first victim of the Nazis, was invaded on September 1, 1939. At 4 o'clock in the morning, German soldiers entered from the west, to Warsaw, dressed as Poles. They went unnoticed, quickly besieging Poland and causing it to capitulate a month after the war began.

But not all of Poland belonged to Germany, its western part being annexed by the U.R.S.S., according to the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact (or the Stalin-Hitler Pact of 1939, which we will discuss in more detail in another article).

Germany had become unstoppable, annexing Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Norway in turn. However, the most important conquest remained France, of which it conquered two thirds in just 11 days!

On the other hand, Hitler was horrified that he was no longer in control of his methamphetamine-dependent army. It had violated the 1939 pact and invaded the western part of the Soviet Union, but as pervitin could not immunize people against cold and hunger, the offensive was halted in Leningrad.

In the last years of the war, not at all favorable for the Germans, Hitler himself became addicted to pervitin. He did not escape this obsession until April 30, 1945, when he realized that he would not be able to stop the Soviet Union's advance on Berlin, so he committed suicide.

Fortunately, Germany capitulated shortly after, on May 7, but the war continued in the Far East, where Japan had an incredible resistance, an unique material for another somewhat more "exotic" article XD.

So, I hope that I have demystified a little the issues that were behind the atrocities of the Germans, but also that I have gladly taken you through a part of one of the world’s massacres.

Until next time, stay away from pervitin or any unconventional ways to become euphoric :)

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editorial: Bianca Constantin

graphic design: Bianca Constantin,

Anastasia Chivu

translation: Irina Aldescu

DP (desktop publishing): Bianca Constantin