Amphetamine, Benzedrine it was called, it was an American product, and apparently it enabled some American athletes to perform quite well. I have not seen a record, and there’s people who research this but there’s many rumours that at the Olympic Games in ’36 there actually was a doping agent being used. But they still were better than the white superhuman Germans, which is basically impossible, so they must have taken something. After the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936, rumour went around that the Americans were - part of them were not white. The irony is, however, that one drug suddenly became very popular in Nazi Germany.
“The Nazis imposed very strict anti-drug laws, and threw people who took drugs into concentration camps- drug users were among those first victims of National Socialism.” Some of the first people that were prosecuted in that way were drug users - drug users were among those first victims of National Socialism. They were sometimes just cellars where the SS were torturing people and killing people. They imposed very strict anti-drug laws, they threw people who took drugs into concentration camps - the first concentration camps were not what we now imagine concentration camps are, they were kind of wild, they call them wild concentration camps. So when they became the leading force in Germany in 1933, in a way they invented what we today know as the war on drugs. They hated drugs, they hated bohemian life, they hated art, they hated basically everything except themselves.
They called the Weimar Republic the Jewish Republic, the Degenerate Republic. “Once, not so very long ago sweet alcohol, that beast Brought warmth and sweetness to our lives But then the price increased And so cocaine and morphine Berliners now select Let lightning flashes rage outside, we snort and we inject At dinner in the restaurant the waiter brings the tin of coke for us to feast upon Forget whiskey and gin Let drowsy morphine takes its subcutaneous effect upon our nervous system We snort and we inject These medications aren’t allowed Of course, they’re quite forbidden But even such illicit treats are very seldom hidden Euphoria awaits us and though as we suspect Our foes can’t wait to shoot us down We snort and we inject And if we snort ourselves to death Or into the asylum Our days are going downhill fast How better to beguile them? Europe’s a mad house, anyway No need for genuflecting The only way to paradise is snorting and…” I’m going to read a song that was a popular song in the ’20s in Berlin. Let me just read you that little thing about the Chemical Twenties so you get an idea of the mood in Berlin at the time.
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