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To: Les H who wrote (205630)	11/19/2002 10:43:58 AM
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To: Les H who wrote (205630)	11/19/2002 10:55:55 AM
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Springtime for Hitler and Germany Nazis developed drug for super-soldiers November 18 2002 The Nazis developed a cocaine-based drug to boost the performance of their soldiers in combat during World War II and tested it on prisoners in 1944, according to a report in the latest edition of Focus magazine. "It was Hitler's last secret weapon to win a war he had already lost long ago," said criminologist Wolf Kemper, who is about to publish a book on the Third Reich's use of drugs called Nazis on Speed. The drug, codenamed D-IX, was tested at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp north of Berlin, where prisoners loaded with 20kg packs were reported to have marched 90km without rest. "After 24 hours, most were completely exhausted," one former prisoner wrote in his diary, according to Kemper's book. Focus said the Nazis had planned to issue the drug to all their soldiers, but Allied forces closed in before the project could get off the ground. Kemper said that from 1933 the Nazis had campaigned against the use of drugs, particularly cocaine, which was widely used in the 1920s. But as early as 1939, German soldiers were supplied with the amphetamine Pervitine, with about 29 million pills being delivered to the troops from April to December that year.