THE ARYAN “IDEALS” of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi movement were compromised by the Third Reich itself – by feeding its soldiers crystal meth.

A study on the medicines administered to Nazi soldiers has revealed that Hitler’s army was given highly addictive Pervitin pills. The main ingredient of Pervitin was methamphetamine, or crystal meth. The drug was given to hundreds of thousands of soldiers in order to get them to fight longer and harder. The drug had been tested on concentration camp prisoners before being given to the soldiers.

The Daily Mail quotes criminologist Wolf Kemper, who wrote a book called Nazis on Speed:

It was Hitler’s last secret weapon to win a war he had already lost long ago.

The drug was tested on prisoners at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany. They were sent on long marches carrying heavy backpacks to investigate the influence of the drug on their stamina.

Meanwhile, the extraordinary story of an Irishman who unwittingly saved the life of a young Hitler is to be revealed in a documentary on RTE Radio 1 next Saturday at 6.05pm. It will be repeated at 7pm on the same station on Sunday evening.

For added convenience, the documentary can be heard in full online at RTE.