I wish we could kill every breathing fucking member of ISIS.....

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93. WW2 Nazis were on drugs, too. They called it 'krank.'

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The Nazi Death Machine: Hitler's Drugged Soldiers

By Andreas Ulrich

The Nazis preached abstinence in the name of promoting national health. But when it came to fighting their Blitzkrieg, they had no qualms about pumping their soldiers full of drugs and alcohol. Speed was the drug of choice, but many others became addicted to morphine and alcohol...

Many of the Wehrmacht's soldiers were high on Pervitin when they went into battle, especially against Poland and France -- in a Blitzkrieg fueled by speed. The German military was supplied with millions of methamphetamine tablets during the first half of 1940. The drugs were part of a plan to help pilots, sailors and infantry troops become capable of superhuman performance. The military leadership liberally dispensed such stimulants, but also alcohol and opiates, as long as it believed drugging and intoxicating troops could help it achieve victory over the Allies. But the Nazis were less than diligent in monitoring side-effects like drug addiction and a decline in moral standards.

After it was first introduced into the market in 1938, Pervitin, a methamphetamine drug newly developed by the Berlin-based Temmler pharmaceutical company, quickly became a top seller among the German civilian population. According to a report in the Klinische Wochenschrift ("Clinical Weekly&quot , the supposed wonder drug was brought to the attention of Otto Ranke, a military doctor and director of the Institute for General and Defense Physiology at Berlin's Academy of Military Medicine. The effects of amphetamines are similar to those of the adrenaline produced by the body, triggering a heightened state of alert. In most people, the substance increases self-confidence, concentration and the willingness to take risks, while at the same time reducing sensitivity to pain, hunger and thirst, as well as reducing the need for sleep. In September 1939, Ranke tested the drug on 90 university students, and concluded that Pervitin could help the Wehrmacht win the war. At first Pervitin was tested on military drivers who participated in the invasion of Poland. Then, according to criminologist Wolf Kemper, it was "unscrupulously distributed to troops fighting at the front..."

Toward the end of the war, the Nazis were even working on a miracle pill for their troops. In the northern German seaport of Kiel, on March 16, 1944, then Vice-Admiral Hellmuth Heye, who later became a member of parliament with the conservative Christian Democratic party and head of the German parliament's defense committee, requested a drug "that can keep soldiers ready for battle when they are asked to continue fighting beyond a period considered normal, while at the same time boosting their self-esteem..."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/the-nazi-death-machine-hitler-s-drugged-soldiers-a-354606.html

The article mentions that cocaine was added to the mixture. 35 million tablets were sent '...to maintain sleeplessness...'

That is a state in which a person is susceptible to mental influence as if in under hypnosis. It's been reported this is also the state of person who looks at television that moves them emotionally for a very long time, like Faux. Soon people become like zombies, suggestible to demagoguery.

There is little difference between waking and sleeping, one is closer to a dream state. Knowing that when faced with them does not make them any less dangerous. I'm not sure if there is a non-violent solution to escape from them, or prevent being harmed.

I imagine sleeping gas to let them finally work it out while unconscious might be a solution to shooting them. Not very practical, though. IMO, a lot of men (as it's usually men we're talking about) are being egged onto to do things they would never do in civilian life. There are many ways to get people so aroused they will do anything.

If a person can stand aside for a moment to look at what they're being urged to do, there'd be more clarity and manipulation would not work on them. And a lot of grief would be saved.

But then again, we may be dealing with what is a medieval mindset of unrefined lust for power and advantage, with no willingness to respect others who are not of the tribe to which one is in.

The Spiegel article shows a picture of Germans who had surrendered to an Allied soldier:

http://www.spiegel.de/pics/89/0,1020,464489,00.jpg

Towards the end of the war, Germany used younger and younger soldiers. More and more of them relied on drugs or alcohol for courage and endurance.

IDK if the ISIS warriors will surrender, though.