An army of tweakers. I don't think that this aspect of the War and the Holocaust are discussed enough. Certainly no excuse, but it is very interesting.

> Chronic Meth users have deficits in memory and executive functioning as well as higher rates of anxiety, depression, and most notably psychosis. [0]

In more recent times of horror:

> After the fall of the al-Assad regime in Syria, large stockpiles of the illicit drug captagon have reportedly been uncovered.

> The stockpiles, found by Syrian rebels, are believed to be linked to al-Assad military headquarters, implicating the fallen regime in the drug’s manufacture and distribution. [1]

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3764482/

[1] https://theconversation.com/what-is-the-drug-captagon-and-ho...

There were also reports about widespread use of captagon during the attacks of October 7th 2023.

Highly recommend the book "Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich" by Norman Ohler, a podcast promo led me to get the book from the library and I really liked it!

Im sure eventually whatever pills the Germans were taking back then were bad for you but I would imagine smoking huge doses of not so pure street meth is quite a bit different than something created in a lab.

That being said if anyone uses drugs to avoid sleeping for many days straight I would imagine it's quite horrible for your mental health