{"id":916,"date":"2010-12-10T15:26:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T14:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timeprints-film.de\/?p=916"},"modified":"2025-09-24T19:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:27:00","slug":"schlaflos-im-krieg-die-pharmazeutische-waffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timeprints-film.de\/en\/schlaflos-im-krieg-die-pharmazeutische-waffe\/","title":{"rendered":"Pervitin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Germany | 2010 (2014) | 52 Minuten | German<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Blitzkrieg on speed – how German scientists created a drug that was used by the Wehrmacht millions of times during the war.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

The documentary film “Schlaflos im Krieg” uncovers one of the biggest taboos in German military history: The role of performance-enhancing drugs from the Nazi era to the present day.<\/p>\n

“The Germans are using a miracle pill” commented the British press on the unpredictably rapid pace of the Wehrmacht after the Western campaign against France. With the German invention Pervitin<\/i>, the soldiers seemed to be able to achieve almost superhuman feats. An expert: “The Blitzkrieg was controlled by amphetamines”.<\/p>\n

The correct dosage was tested in cruel human experiments on concentration camp prisoners. Tired child soldiers, who had to pass school during the day and anti-aircraft gunfire at night, were given Pervitin on command: “We were given it every evening. You couldn’t refuse it.”<\/p>\n

The wake-up call was a permanent fixture in the German Navy’s one-man torpedoes and two-man submarines. Former Seehund<\/i> sailors report on the day and night missions in the stormy North Sea in the winter months of 1944\/45.<\/p>\n

Despite serious side effects and a considerable risk of addiction, Pervitin was still part of the equipment of the German Armed Forces and NVA after the war. It is the story of an unbroken success.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Credits<\/h4>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Author & Director:<\/strong> S\u00f6nke el Bitar
\nCo-Author: <\/strong>Gorch Pieken
\nProducer<\/strong>: Michael Truckenbrodt
\nDoP:<\/strong> Erik Krambeck
\nEditor:<\/strong> Tom Lehnert<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Music:<\/strong> Andreas Pique, Torsten Seliger, Oliver Kronhardt
\nCommissioning Editor:<\/strong> Mechtild Lehning
\nProduction Companies:<\/strong> TIME PRINTS, Radio Bremen with Arte\/ARD<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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