Inside Hitler's Killing Machine โ Season 1, Episode 5: Hitler's Junkies
Documentary, War & Politics โข 53 min โข 1 season, 4 episodes โข โ 5.6/10
Episode synopsis
September 1, 1939. Hitler launched the German army's offensive in Poland: in less than a month, the country was invaded and totally crushed. A blitzkrieg that the Wehrmacht owes to its tactical and technological superiority, but also to a new substance, a powerful synthetic drug known today as โcrystal methโ: Pervitine. But how did it become a weapon of war? Was it really a key element of Nazi domination? And what relationship did Adolf Hitler and other Nazi dignitaries have with the drug?
About Inside Hitler's Killing Machine
May 1945: With the end of the war and the surrender of the Third Reich, the world discovered the full horror of a genocidal system on a scale never before seen in the history of humanity. The elimination of millions of individuals had been meticulously planned by a regime whose organization and methods were just beginning to be understood.