Agree, many wish to deny the idea the evil exists, and that people can be evil, and/or do evil things. If evil does not exist, then governments ruled by "the wise" can do many things without consideration of morality or human or consitutional rights. That is the agenda behind denying the existence of evil. We have the ability, as humans, to do terrible things to each other, and to be able to live with it. Evil people can still have loving relationships, enjoy the opera, and have a nice meal for dinner. With humans, evil is an everyday thing, it is part of the human condition.
People have this caricature version of Nazis in their mind, ranting madmen foaming at mouth, spewing hatred and nonsense. Nobody is actually taught how mistaken principles can lead people into a form of reasoning that logically leads them to evil. More than tens years ago, I was in college, and took a course on the Holocaust. It was for higher level history students who, presumably, knew a bit more about history than the average student. But when it came to primary source readings, they'd see something like Alfred Rosenberg or Gottfried Feder, and they could not believe those men were Nazis. Their arguments were entirely too rational. These people were too intelligent and educated to be Nazis. They believed Nazis were only the unwashed, stupid, and hateful masses. That's the problem with dehumanizing evil people in history. They become other-ed so much that people can't ever recognize similarities they might themselves bear to those people.
He was not evil,he had an ideology that included doing horrible things but in his mind was for the good of the german people,so, anyone can do the worst of things with good intentions in their head. The lesson to learn is that there are no cartoonish villains,only humans.
@@sujeto16a People who are willing to do horrible things at great cost, "for the greater good," are not exempted from being evil. It's even worse when they actually aren't serving the greater good because their base assumptions are wrong.
It seems like it's hard for a lot of people to realize that understanding something or someone does not mean supporting it. Dehumanizing evil people seems like a psychological defense mechanism, to avoid having to grasp the reality that every genocide in history was carried out by human beings. It seems like that is such a scary thought to some people that they can't even imagine it.
@@LUR1FAX I think you got it there. Like a cognitive dissonance. Easier to say he's crazy than to say he could be you or I or the Baker down the street.
I hate when people just boils the eastern front to: Lol, hitler attacked in the winter. Just show's how ignorant humans can be and are happy to be fed with lies.
Buuuut - being a devil's advocate here, or offering an additional argument - you need to simplify things for the general public, because one simply doesn't have the time and mental capacity to take in all of this. That is the historians' job: To take all available facts, analyse them as best as they can and then tell a truthful narrative - "truth" being a simplified interpretation of reality which helps with understanding the reality. And sometimes...you need to oversimplify. To tell a world war in one sentence. Not always, but sometimes.
What do you think about creating narrratives which don't primarily stem from the facts, but those that aim for a better goal? In this case I'm thinking about the Rommel myth (and MHV's video on it), that Rommel's legacy was embellished to be used for creating a good foundation for Bundeswehr. Can you build a better future on lies or half-truths? Can you get rid of them afterwards?
It's important to remember that being on drugs doesn't automatically make you impaired. Half of Silicon Valley and Wall Street are on all kinds of stuff while at the same time make a killing.
Depend on what drugs u are on and what u need to do. If u need to do PT or being conscious long times as a pilot then meth is great, but if u need to discuss things with other ppl and listen to arguments and take well thought decisions.. not so much!
People forget or don't know that most, if not almost all, of the "great" people we look up to in history were on some drug or another; after looking into it, especially with Paul Erdős, I'm tending to believe that drugs either caused them to see things differently and therefore became great or that it improved their already great abilities because they weren't just getting high off it. But that's just my current view.
The Great Reset is for our own good supposedly.......I like how TIK weaved current events into the narrative and made a not so subtle point about recurring historical parallels.
@@peetena1481 The Great Reset...also known by its real name...Bankruptcy. Everything is tied to loans...even Pensions. The idiots would condemn this generation to dying poor and without a pension.
@@darktimes9489 They declared every man for himself in 2008. It's taking this particular ship quite a while before she begins the final plunge into the depths. Longer than I thought it would. I still think we have a couple years left before an epic shit storm of unimaginable size and scope strikes in it's wake.
Exactly it's a brilliant quote. Very few people consider themselves the villain. Most of the worst things in human history the perpetrators thought they were doing the right thing for their nation people and the world.
@@TheImperatorKnight I have a question regarding your video TIK. I remember that a while ago the World War 2 day by day channel from indy neidell made a video claiming Hitler was injected a literal hardcore drug-cocktail regularly from 1936 on by Morrel. They really went into detail and even mentionend an account that Hummler allegedly stole one of the injections and had it analyzed in a lab, revealing its content, but he didnt tell Hitler. Where do these claims come from?
@@annairinastoll2960 narrative. its a well put acros channel(s) that those guys have, but all they push is pure narrative, and now they make alot of money doing so
@@annairinastoll2960 tik is of on this one he is trying to make sure that we all blame the germans generals since for im germans genrals who survives made excuses to explain why they got thier ass kicked but if he wasnt a little mad how the fuck do you send million of people to their deaths
Whether Hitler took drugs or not, he didn't start a world war. A war between Germany and Poland was not a world war. It became a world war when England and France, nations with world empires, declared war on Germany. And for what? To defend Poland? Is that why they not only didn't declare war on the Soviets who also invaded Poland, but also gave it all over to the Soviets after the war? The Soviets, by the way, who had more people killed before the war began than Germans are said to have killed in 12 years of National Socialism. Tens of millions of people died in the war, and for what? To defend Poland or to destroy a Germany who stopped paying international finance, a Germany who took internationalists out of power who rule over most of us in the west today?
@@josephrichter2104 I am Polish. I'm glad UK and France DOW'ed Germany. Fuck off from my country. Yeah, fuck off I said it. Maybe Baltic was rightfully German, debatable. Maybe that war could have been over that, if we lost, we lose corridor ok, I could take it. But nooo, Germans had to go through everything and everyone. The idea that Allies escalated already aggressive politics of Hitler is just wrong. The narrative "Poor Hitler hand was forced, he couldn't do anything else, all of options were exhausted" is ridiculous, toxic and revisionist.
@@josephrichter2104 I doubt understand your logic. If I tell you I will punch you in the face if you punch my friend you do it anyway. You cannot then say that I would the one who initiated the fight. Also the weimar government were social democrats. All the nazi did was replace who socialist ideology for another.
@@josephrichter2104 You rubbed me very wrong way. I am from Klodzko, Glatz in your damn language. I remember old nazis coming over and pointing houses they lost after Soviets kicked their asses west. When I was a little brat I would be told these assholes come over and plot how they could come back. I used to throw rocks at these old closet nazis. I used to feel bad later in my life that I did it, but after seeing comment like yours I am actually glad. German language on Polish soil is not welcome. You overstayed your welcome. Oswiecim, Majdanek, Belzec, Chelmno nad Renem, Sobibor, Rogoznica, Sztutowo, Gesiowka, Treblinka. Thank you Germany for these awesome memories, that are engraved into entire nation forever. Kind regards, Pole.
I cannot praise your patience enough when dealing with all these people online, who fundamentally misunderstand the topics in your videos. To go so far as to accuse you of being a nazi or a Hitler idolater! Thank you TIK for bringing so many greatly detailed videos on WW2 and beyond
It's sadly astonishing that by trying to understand (emphasis on understand) Hitler & his pernicious ideology one could believe that such at attempt at understanding meant agreement or support for Hitler! Ouch! The Third Reich was so destructive, not because its leaders were "insane," but because they posessed a wealth of qualities that are admirable in themselves - but not when directed to the destructive cause they served. You can be evil AND intelligent at the same time. Sadly ...
Can be lol? Dude one being intelligent and kind or even just of a normal temperament is the rarity. Intelligence in a modern society often lead's to despising society... Maybe we could figure out why that is? Or not you know fuck it ain't broke don't fix it. 😅
Towards the end of the war the Germans dumped a load of pervitin into Finland, where the downsides of the drugs weren't as well known. The result was that after the war and during the 50s Finland had the highest consumption of amphetamines in the world.
I guess it was some way to punish Finland for seeking peace with the allies&USSR. I heard there were instances of German soldiers becoming literally braindead and having permanent damage after being overdosed with pervitin and other "wonderdrug" attemps.
@@arturocevallossoto5203 Only years of use will cause permanent damage. The immediate damage to one's psyche is mostly caused by sleep deprivation. Amphetamine is prescribed to children and adults for ADD quite frequently for long periods of time.
@Ron Lewenberg Yeah I think that was a product of the PTSD as well. But who knows? Mental health was in its infancy back then and Germany was broke, etc... Bad situation for sure.
When he was captured he had 20,000 dihydrocodeine(a fairly mild opioid that unlike codeine has no ceiling dose so you can take as much as your tolerance allows) tablets on him(thought to be most of the worlds supply of that drug at the time). He told the allies he needed to take 32 a day and they were heart pills lol.
What’s so bad about klaus schwab? Would anyone mind explaining? Honestly curious since the sources I see criticizing him (including tiks link) don’t seem to have concrete evidence damning him as a anti semite etc.
@@maybemaeb So more of a person who subscribes to the old league of nations view of a sovereign world league? I really need to do more reading on this as I usually enjoy TIKS battle series, but struggle to comprehend his economics series. as Im crunching through the video TIK linked theres this part about stakeholder capitalism a close cooperation between government and corporations. It doesnt sound perfect but several countries have made this work right? like korea and japan with corporations loyal to the state (to a point) and the state able to dictate where corporations invest their funds(to a point) EDIT Yeah I dont think ill be able to finish the link TIK posted. I respectfully disagreed with alot of what this other dude was saying. But once I heard the stuff about complaining about mandatory wearing a mask or getting vaccinated as a terrible tradeoff for freedom it turned me off on the whole thing.
@@Made_In_Heavenn true, but without Hitler we’d have the USSR possibly collapsing earlier in early 1940’s, Keynes couldn’t use ‘oh see a war, so you can’t judge me for my policies and rhetoric.’ That and China also wouldn’t likely have had Russia as very reliable as it had been since the USSR would’ve been worse off without the Lend Lease air drops America supplied to them in WW2. This would’ve probably cut the propaganda bullshit earlier
@@jakublulek3261 I never said that, I said without Adolf we’d probably wouldn’t have the USSR as well as it was in the 1940’s... which is to say people stealing animals off the street to eat is where it was at at the time.
Your point is brilliant because there is even more to learn. Not only can humans do terrible things but other people can Overlook the evil and follow terrible people to do terrible things in large numbers. Thank you for your precise analysis of why we study history.
And thank you for your comment! What I explained ties into what I said a while ago in my history theory video. If you haven't seen it, I'd recommend it ua-cam.com/video/PvpJEc-NxVc/v-deo.html
Glad you liked it 👍 went a little bit beyond what I normally do, but the video topic sort of warranted it... If it hadn't been about drugs, I probably wouldn't have thrown as many 'red pills' out there
@@TheImperatorKnight yeah from minute 7 to 15 I was like DAMNNN :D I hope you open this door a little more as we go. A bit of stingy cold fresh air that slaps you in the face is great from time to time :) Of course, whenever it is suitable and fitting, like in this case.
Lol really? There’s barely any info in this video and tik talks about vegans and their stomachs (like he knows anything about that). You got to be dumb if you think drugs played any part of his(hitlers) decisions, so I don’t know what the point of this video other than clickbait.
Hitler had an acrimonious relationship with his generals because he was on drugs? Neh, Hitler was on drugs because he had an acrimonious relationship with his generals.
FFS they were effing generals, they and Hitler likely all had at least 1 or 2 iron crosses and twice the average testosterone level. They’re not a ladies book club. They’re going to fight a bit.
I'm shocked you didn't reference Hitler's book in this entire video. He obviously wrote his playbook while he was in prison. He then develops and executes his plan and then people jump to the "drug intoxication" narrative. Great content yet again.
Hitler, the nazis, and that period in history have become so cartoonified that we can no longer learn from and avoid history mistake's what TIK is trying to do is rehumanize that time period so people can learn from it and avoid repeating the horrors of that time!
I had this conversation with a Jewish man once, that casting the Nazis as super-mega-crazy-evil in a whole different reality than anything else in history is actually really bad for society and understanding how things played out... And how they could repeat. Very few people even understand what the politics of Nazis actually was and would have no way of recognizing it. And more controversially, I argued that treating them like that over time will ultimately turn Nazis subversive heroes like pirates and Vikings. We name our sports teams after those people because they are symbolic of extreme aggression, it's that there's been enough time that their murdering and pillaging has lost its edge and now they're "heroes." Overall, the Jewish man didn't care for my arguments, but he grudgingly admitted I had a few reasonable points.
@@ressljs exactly. Just look at todays leftists they run around calling anyone who even slightly disagrees with a nazi, whilst they themselves actually act like nazis with their bullyboy political tactics.
The British gave their tank crews Benzidrine (methamphetamine) in the North African campaign. One account I read of a British officer described his hallucinations after three days on the stuff.
@@signoguns8501 Pervitin - the drug that Germany widely distributed to its soldiers and tank crews, and apparently also the drug that even Wikipedia claims that Funny Mustache Man is only "rumored to have begun... using after1937... although disputed by historians...." - is also an amphetamine, not methamphetamine. Apparently the Japanese military distributed and used methamphetamines under the name Philipon during the war, before the effects were widely understood. Allied bomber pilots were also given amphetamines such as Benzedrine to keep them alert through long bombing runs, and it seems that amphetamines more recently were voluntarily used by US pilots for much the same purpose during the the Persian Gulf War. (Allegedly Russian soldiers are using them now in Ukraine, according to Forbes and other sources, and it wouldn't surprise me, though I'll take almost anything the press says about that war with a grain of salt.) The Soviets apparently also dabbled in drugging their soldiers, but that information doesn't seem to be as easy to find: 2,4-Dinotrophenol seems to have been a (non-amphetamine) Soviet wonder-drug for its fighters in cold weather, otherwise used as an herbicide, explosive, and weight-loss drug, which had the mixed benefit of keeping Soviet soldiers warm in frigid Eastern Front weather by quickly burning fat, keeping the soldiers alert and awake and active, at the risk of heart attacks and starvation (the starving Soviet soldiers had precious little body fat to spare without burning it faster to stay warmer), I see some references to various sorts of drugs being distributed to at least Soviet special forces, but over all the Soviets seemed to be pretty secretive on the topic, though, and I get the strong impression that much of the "Mad Druggie Mustache Man" myth was authored by the Soviets, as part of a Narrative that went something like "The decadent capitalist west use all these drugs, while the great Soviet super-soldiers only need all-natural vodka and True Socialism to conquer the world!" I press X to doubt.... WWII, like WWI before it, was a high-tech war where the various fighting forces quickly adopted all sorts of new technologies to gain advantage against their enemies, and "wonder drugs" were just one of the new high-tech weapons they adopted. I would bet that pretty much every major participant in WWII that could afford to do so used amphetamines in one form or another during the war, and no doubt afterward,.
@@ss88sa88 Kind of. But its like comparing codeine and fentanyl. Both opiate based, theyre both narcotics with similar properties, but one is much more potent than the other.
Here in Czech Republic the German Pervitine production took an unexpected spin decades later when it was first experimented on by the communists and then rediscovered by underground figures who used the German research started "cooking" Pervitine in the 70s, which was something totally unheard of behind the Iron Curtain. This resulted in massive Pervitine problem and huge consumption that largely lasts to this day. As such, I cant imagine the drug being used long-term by the troops, it is totally devastating after a couple of months and, as you mention yourself, its initial kick only results in a huge exhaustion and "sleeping loan" later on, not to mention horrid anxieties and paranoia.
21:57 As an Ex Soldier. Main Battle Tank. On extended ops you are 'cat-napping' all the time. this sustains you. The periods of movement, and action are always punctuated by a chance to 'cat-nap'. So the hours of 'action' and 'movement' are subsidized during it with sleep. (cat-naps) Trust me on this, - Its how a soldier functions. It's a messed up hourly schedule, but its how it works, - Obviously there are wide spread situations (like the British SOE/SAS in the Italian resistance) where Benzedrine saved their lives (Speed) as they could carry on functioning as human beings. (Obviously they had a total collapse once in safety) I'll add to this, As an ex-trawlerman after I left the Army, I one time did a 70 hour stint with no sleep, at the end we were literally 'sleeping on our feet' going with the motion of the boat. Your hands are making a gutting of a haddock motion, but there's no fish there, - Then you realize you had been asleep on your feet, then you are relieved that everybody else is to knackered to even notice. This isn't a narrative this is my life experience.
Let me guess, Computing Forever is muh Nazi because you dislike his personal beliefs and so that means he’s clearly a Nazi and crazy, right? I’ve watched the guy a couple times and I never got the impression he was crazy. Disagreed with him, if truth be told, but he’s not muh fascist.
@@lowlandnobleman6746 saw some of his shit a while ago when i was into that sort of crowd, didnt remember much. Then i saw a video by another youtuber in which he shows computing forever pushing the narrative that someone is trying to replace the european population with immigrants. He very nearly goes over the line into antisemitic conspiracy theory territory, bit stops himself short. Anyways it was a video by a youtuber named 3 arrows. A lot of his videos are arguing against conservative ideas. For your information, i dont think people who disagree with me are crazy, and i dont conflate conservative with nazi. Its just when you push weird ass conspiracies like the replacememt narrative, yeah i think thats crazy
The system enables guys like Heydrich and Eichmann to have psychopathic tendencies and they always explain away their killings with euphemisms. Even if they are not on drugs they rationalize their murders.
@Rifle Eyez It's the opportunistic evil being talked about here, just like Hans Landa in the inglorious bastards. Himmler knew it was evil so he tried to make deals with the allies. Drugs or intoxication is one way they would want to explain away their mass killings. Then it would be the system, or just Hitler, whatever it takes to exonerate themselves.
@Rifle Eyez We are all capable of evil. There is no saints, just normal average Joe's when given the opportunity of a life time most will take it and bear the consequences afterwards. All sides of this conflict do it, even the good guys. The poor, the defeated were more easily manipulated because what have they got to lose? Some have more hindsight than the others and emigrated to the Americas before the 30s.
We have become accustomed to seeing Hitler only as a manic, screaming demagogue because of his famous speeches to the assembled masses. The caricature of him biting his carpet and screaming in rage has become accepted. But far more realistic is the sober, calm, rational HItler behind the scenes. He could inspire fear and the utmost obedience in his highest chain of command simply with his cold-blooded presence. The only record we have of what he sounded like in private conversation are the Hitler-Mannerheim tapes of 1942. It's hard to connect this man's casual private conversation with an individual who could coldly order the extermination of millions of Jews in the Holocaust, and other horrendous crimes. But that is an equally scary part of who Hitler was.
I was under the impression that Goering was a morphine addict. I thought he had been hooked after a near-fatal injury in WWI. As an aside, I feel like the maximum benefit of Pervitin would be approximately hours 16-36ish, with hour 0 being the waking time. Ive never been in a combat situation while using, but for focus and rational thinking, its benefit was only about a full 24 hours starting around the time one would normally sleep. After about 48 hours on Pervitin, I think the crash and lack of sleep would seriously hinder someone's mental faculties. Say they get 4 hours of fitful sleep. They may be forced or compelled to re-dose just to achieve some level of function. So I can see the argument that some soldiers were hardcore addicts. It's probably heavily exaggerated, especially the argument that it played a major role in the France/Poland victories. I'd also seen a chart that documented barbiturate injections given by Morrell. So that wouldve been a nighttime medication. It's basically the early 20th century version of benzos (Valium, Ativan, Klonopin, Halcion ). A lot less selectively binding, a lot more dangerous in overdose as a result of the peripheral effects. This wouldve led to dependence quite rapidly. The question would be whether he was really impaired to the point of living in a totally separate reality. If he truly was, I doubt he'd have remained in power even with all the psychophants in his court. No way.
@@francescomiele6601 Indy & the team even give the Germans a little credit during the 1939-1940 campaigns so yeah they are not biased Just offering a neutral POV of both sides
@@francescomiele6601 You know where comes the sentence "Hitler was a socialist?" From the socialist saying, Hitler was not a real socialist he just wanted the name to trick the workers. Socialism is "good" therefore nothing bad can be attached to it. This is a problem, as most of the Academia leans towards the left, that is the vision we have been spoon-fed. One thing is to be against Hitler and NS and another thing is because I am against it I can use whatever I want that fits my ideology: from madman to drug issues, or not being a real socialist. That is a perversion of History and a true effort no to find the truth but to silence the debate and censor the critics. No surprise, the Left has always kept the prerogative of being the ones that can name other people's ideology, but watch out if you touch their precious "ring".
And besides that, he is not doing anything radical or new. He is just doing on YT what they do in the schools in Germany and had many of my German friends being fed up with History in general.
Excellent video. As someone who is an amateur ww2 professor and has loooooooots of experience with hard drugs, I agree with the theories you put forward in this video. Valid points. Wish i had teachers like you in school...
You know WAY more than I do and I agree with 99.9999999% of the things you say except this. ONLY because as someone who has done a metric ton of pretty much any drug you can think of, when I see that video of Hitler at the Olympics rocking back and forth uncontrollably: that is DEFINITELY someone who is on something at that moment in time at least
I would argue by late 42 he was suffering the mental damage from long term vegan diet. We know know that long term veganism produces a lot of subtle but damaging mental impairments.
"Race, which doesn't exist" XD I can't imagine so off-handedly asserting such a convtroversial statement as fact without any kind of basis whilst doing it personally. Love ur videos anyway tho and ur great. Please keep up the good work, even though I don't agree with every single word you ever say, appreciate your efforts and time very much.
Standard Oil leased the method to create synthetic petrol from coal to IG Farben. This was disclosed in 2013 by the Freedom of Information Act. Standard Oil did not share this knowledge with the US government during the war.
Pervitin is pronounced Per-ve-teen, with the emphasis on the last syllable. But completely agree with your assertion that if we 'monsterify' Hitler, we deprive ourselves of the opportunity to learn.
As a neuropharmacologist I have some serious reservations about some of the conclusions you have come to concerning Hitlers, and the German army as a whole’s drug use. I have a deep respect for this Chanel, the history and the insights you come to are fantastic, but it’s all too clear you don’t have a fundamental understanding of how a lot of these drugs work, or even what a lot of these drugs were/are. There are fair too many examples, and I would need to watch the video again and make notes, so from what I remember I will pick a couple of examples to illustrate what I’m trying to say. Firstly pervitin is methamphetamine, and was incredibly common amongst the German population in the lead up to the war, and in the early stages of the war, it does actually improve concentration, physical and mental endurance etc for a time. Numerous studies, even a quite famous one in Germany in the 1930s involving students having to stay up writing and answering questions fir as long as possible, one group given methamphetamine and the other a placebo, I don’t know if it was a double blind study, I doubt it, but anyway it showed those on methamphetamine could concentrate far longer and keep on task than those on the placebo. Studies on amphetamine based drugs and stimulants in general have shown similar results, and in fact drugs like adderall, which contains a mixture of the two enantiomers of amphetamine are indicated and approved for use in various disorders, as are drugs like Ritalin. Amphetamine in fact was used by pretty much all sides in WW2 and is still used by some militaries to this day, fighter pilots for example may be given it, but only for short term use, and this is based on decades of research. These drugs used for performance enhancement, either mentally (you will see today the rise of drugs like modafinil in universities) or physically really only work over a couple of days, because after 3 days of no sleep you will start to either experience a “come down”, which is not ideal for soldiers, or if you continue to take the stimulant (which will require ever increasing quantities) cause some quite strange side effects, auditory and visual hallucinations, depression, hyper aggression (a common side effect of any drug that increases dopamine release) hypertension (or even hypotension in some cases), abdominal pain etc, none of which are conducive to a fighting force, and the Wehrmacht was aware of this, and various orders and stops and checks were put in place to reduce the consumption of the drug, and not only for the Heer. It is true they had access to pervitin especially in the French campaign, but the number of doses available were not limitless, and the adverse effects were noted, which is why in subsequent campaigns the use of pervitin was much smaller (also the clamping down I mentioned above). Your comments on Stalingrad don’t hold water with me, because it is well documented that by 1942 the use of pervitin was much lower that it had been in 1940. So for that example I both agree with some of your statements and conclusions and disagree, but I think that comes more from your lack of understanding just how these drugs work. Another example is Eukadol (oxycodone I believe) which you call opium, which it is not, it is opiod, that is to say a synthetic drug that binds to opiod receptors, opium is essentially a mixture of naturally occurring opiates like morphine and codeine, which comes from the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum). Staying on opiates I’d like to mention that Hermann Göring was in fact a morphine addict, an IV one at that, as a result of being shot in the leg during the beer hall putsch, I’m not aware of his cocaine use, but maybe. I’d also like to say that withdrawal from eukadol would not last months, it would be around one to two weeks for the acute withdrawal symptoms, possibly less, and there may be some protracted symptoms like depression or apathy that last up to 6 months, but these are quite different from the acute withdrawal symptoms that most people would associate with opiate addiction (one exception to this would be longer acting opiates like methadone, the withdrawal period can last up to 2 or 3 months but is much less severe, basically the shorter acting the opiate the more intense but shorter the acute withdrawal period and vice versa). Hitler was also given cocaine, I do not know when it was first given to him but it was at some point a part of the mixture that made up his daily (well more than daily) injections, he also used cocaine eye drops I believe. I also wonder why you did not mention that Hitlers health problems (the motor neurone ones anyway) could have been a sign of Parkinson’s disease, which a lot of people do use as evidence of his drug use as the condition is the result of the destruction of dopamine producing cells in the substantia nigra, though I would say his drug use probably didn’t cause this directly, but could have been a contributing factor, however as we do not have his brain to look at we simply don’t know, and are going off the notes of his doctors and late war footage of him. Another point I want to mention is about IG Farben, which was a conglomerate chemical and pharmaceutical company made up from various other companies such as Bayer (famous for the synthesis of Heroin and Aspirin). There are more incidents in your video of a basic lack of understanding of how these drugs work, or even what they are which I think should be amended. I really also have to disagree with your statement about veganism, it simply is not true that you cannot live without meat past a certain point, everything that meat contains you can get from lentils, nuts, beans etc and in fact the human digestive system struggles to break down red meat. So we can’t say that is the reason Hitler had stomach pains, again we have to work from the contemporary doctors records, and it’s quite a leap to conclude that his vegetarian diet caused his health to decline, this man was under tremendous stress and lived 75 years ago. Anyways I apologise fir the rant but there were far too many flaws with your understanding of drugs and the human body and brain, which effect your conclusions, which is a real shame, I know pharmacology isn’t the easiest to understand, but Google is always there to help. You have probably had some of these come up already but if not, I hope this helps you and others understand some these points a little better, I have tried to keep the medical jargon down to a minimum as I know it isn’t necessary. Despite all of the above and more, I do think this is an important topic and the video helps to find that middle ground between people either denying drug use or saying everyone was in drugs all the time (which they were not). Cheers
I've never heard about the vegan/vegetarian theory you mentioned. As a veggie (for about 6 years) you hear a lot of peoples theories on why its good or bad but haven't come across that one, not even once. I can say I've had no issues. PS: you said Hitler was a vegetarian and then said that vegan diets are unsustainable (or just uncomfortable?) after 5 years or so. Was Hitler veggie or vegan? Cheers
i dont know it exactly but being vegetarian or vegan is from what i heard very difficult since you need some things that are hard to get from just vegetables. considering that in the 1900s you didnt know so much about and hitler as a public speaker and statesman was very active its highly possible that such a Lifestyle without todays knowledge about nutrition can backfire hard
Iron anemia affects bone health, mood, and thinking. Cropper et al dramatically reduced military trainees injuries and attrition by diagnosing and treating iron anemia.
Aside from the content of this particular video, which as usual is fantastic both in the quality of its conclusions and supporting evidence, I would like to say to you TIK, and I do hope that you see this, that I am so sorry that you have been the recipient of so much harassment over the last year or so regarding the videos about whether Hitler was a socialist or not. That fact that someone such as yourself who is so capable of presenting well articulated and supported arguments has become the subject of such backlash is quite saddening. Your content, at least in my own view, is a shining example of how to present a historical argument, and I have no trouble admitting that you have become somewhat of a role model for me in my own academic career. Keep up the great work!
Utopias will have different, clashing definitions if you ask different people. And therefore utopias are inherently the opposite, cus it requires other utopias to be dismissed.
I've read a few allied WW2 memoirs where they used Benzedrine (Amphetamine) a lot to keep going. I can't help but think that some of the most insane bravery, while wounded, medal winners, may have been assisted by the drug.
The US military (and likely others) use go/no go pills now. Nothing changes. Hard to fly all night, go to bed in the morning, sleep all day, then wake up at 5 AM and fly all day. Having your sleep rhythms messed up is rough. War screws with your sleep schedule. Go/no go pills make it possible. Our squadron was prescribed so much during Libya that we had to call a safety day.
so the details about the Pervetin side effects reminded me about a funny, silly story based on Indian Mythology... one of our epics, the Ramayana. So the titular character Rama goes into exile for fourteen years, and his brother is one of the two people who go with him. This brother makes a deal with sleep itself, telling 'her' that he needs to stay awake to protect his brother and sister in law. He tells her not to bother him for these fourteen years and she agrees, on the condition that when she visits, he must not deny her. And she chooses her moment at the hour when Rama has returned home and is being crowned King in a grand ceremony XD. So, yeah, I agree; never mess with your sleep cycle!
*have happened* Present perfect tense. 'Of' is a preposition. However, people do say "wouldn't 've happened" and that can sound like 'of happened', but when written like that, it doesn't make any sense.
@@Dale_The_Space_Wizard Perhaps I'm the one who should apologize. No offence meant and none taken. I see that use of 'of' everywhere on the internet and being an ESL / TEFL teacher I usually say so, when perhaps it would be better to keep my mouth shut. Apologies.
Important video, Tik. I would echo your caution in in attributing widespread drug use to Hitler or the Wehrmacht. In the first instance, it is is contrary to his very philosophy of being. For the wider armed forces, we must also look at the ability of the body to maintain itself for extended periods in extreme situations. You have covered the eventual use of drugs by Hitler comprehensively and definitively. However, I would urge caution in agreeing to so readily accepting widespread use of drugs to enhance performance within the Wehrmacht even in 1941. I have personally experienced both myself and through family members who fought in the Second World War of being able to operate for extended periods on minimal sleep. For example, my father who fought in the rear guard at Tobruk often recalled how they suffered onslaught and bombardments for weeks on end just catching a few minutes or an hour or two sleep whenever they could. This was out of necessity but also so by Arrangement with others in a unit who would cover for a designated person taking a brief rest while the others remained on duty. There are certain requirements for this to occur. To maintain high performance over an extended period with minimal sleep is possible but requires the following: - those attempting it need to be young - they need to be physically fit - they need to be engaged in a challenging and exciting environment - they have to see a benefit or goal which the lack of sleep can achieve - and strangely they need to derive a sense of excitement from the events around them. When this is transposed into the invasion of Poland or France, or the invasion of Russia, the youth and uniqueness of the situation - rapid victories coming after the trench warfare of WWI - fits all of these criteria. By contrast, drug use tends to be the result of desperation. Not necessarily borne out of depression but from the very necessary need to maintain performance in the face of adversity. This criteria is met perfectly by a retreat, withdrawal or a siege. To achieve results under conditions which are then likely to be personally hazardous or requiring superhuman strength, drug use then becomes essential even if for short periods of time. I offer this as complementary comments to your perspective on widespread drug use and would remind you that even at times of of publicly claimed society-wide drug abuse, the majority of people are not taking those drugs and they are performing ably as normal individuals even in exceptional timed. As we often see even today, alcohol and drugs is freely taken (and given to) reporters who have different motivatikns and fear thresholds to the troops around them, often causing a misapprehension which becomes the 'truth' e.g. in Vietnam every soldier was a baby killer and high all the time. Thanks again for batting a solid innings focommon n sense
Great video Tik, you're getting us used to that ! I also want to emphasize the fact that you rarely cut your speech, some videos on UA-cam make you feel like a fucking epileptic but with yours we actually have the time to simply breathe and calmly listen to what you say ! So good job about that !
I have been a vegetarian since my childhood, and I never faced any stomach issues due to my diet lol, idk how much not eating dairy makes a difference in the case of vegans but a vegetarian diet is perfectly healthy for humans and no it wouldn't cause stomach problems (if you eat such a diet from early in your life that is). Someone like Hitler who ate a meat based diet for most of his life until that point may face such issues due to the gut bacteria in their appendix and large intestine not being suited for a sudden change in diet, since your gut bacteria's composition changes depending on your diet, so if you do a sudden change you're bound to experience stomach issues as the gut bacteria which helps in the digestion is not present in the required quantities. tldr it's more of a sudden change in diet that causes stomach pains when a life long meat eater switches to either a vegetarian or vegan diet rather than the diet being inherently not suited for humans.
can also be the fact that hitler was highly active and that nutrition wasnt aware the risk of just cutting out meat without having other scources. remember unlike you people decades diddnt just had access to every single food of the entire world at their disposal and me personally dont know anyone who is a hard worker physically or public speaker like that was vegetarian. and a lifetime vegetarian is simply Impossible when being a soldier unless you like to starve.
Huh. I didn’t know Mussolini was also mostly vegetarian. Also never heard of the stomach issues that come along with it after years. Fascinating. I always assumed Hitler’s stomach issues were due to stress etc.
If we demonise or make mythical we can be in denial that any human being has the ability to love, to hate, to help or to be brutes. Well at least my late stepfather told me that. He survived a Nazi concentration camp.
How is race not real? I can't help but think this is some postmodernist bullshit. Just from observing people of different races in real life, I can clearly see there are notable differences between them. Saying "races are not real" sounds like "colors blue and red don't exist" to me. How can anyone say that with a straight face? This is an honest question, I don't want to just criticize this point, I'm honestly curious how can anyone think this?
@landscape I believe @TIK can make it through, and see the real truth, meaning that societies are a racial construct because we aren't all the same, every race has it's own soul and different unique characteristics. I just write this here because I want you @TIK to remember my comment when you will swallow the redpill but you will be trapped in this new lie that race is a social construct, that race isn't real and you won't be able to say it because you will lose all of your credibility. Who really believes this? Personally I like you @TIK besides being apologetic some times, you are a hard working quality man.
Hi Tik, love your videos. I wanted to ask a question regarding the German invasion of the Soviet Union; why did Hitler decide to go for a full-scale invasion of the USSR instead of a partial invasion of the USSR (at the time). As far as my limited knowledge of this subject goes, I would think Germany would have been able to secure vital resources, beef up their military on eastern borders while the Red Army was still dysfunctional, and possibly lessen the impact of the Russian winter while they prepared for a full-scale invasion. This would have allowed Germany to focus more on the western front and more specifically the North African campaign, I would think. Would love your insight on this topic; it's been something that's been on my mind lately. Thanks and always love hearing your insight!
Thanks Tik! Thanks for the courage to put things where they belong, and I'm talking about the correlation between those horrible past episodes of human history and what is happening right now. Every time somebody thinks people need to be FORCED to be "better" and they have the power to enforce a radical social and economic change it invariably ends in desaster, and that is the case with the so called great reset. I didn't see the whole video yet, but let me say these things are only possible because of another crucial feature of human nature: We have way more potential to be cowards, willingly ignorants and lazy before this kind of bullies, than potential to be bad persons, so I would say:everything Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao and some other jolly chaps made until now were actually sponsored by the laziness and cowardice of the people; as what is happening (and about to happen) with the great reset. So please people, stop talking and thinking about us, the people, as "the good ones"... in reality, we surrender, we comply, we obey. Nobody seems to understand why so educated people as the germans could be silent before what Hitler was doing in front of their noses. But the same is happening right now in front of OUR noses. We just obey, nobody even dares to ask a question, just went down our beds and waited to other people solve the current issue, you know what issue Im talking about. Good luck telling our grandsons why we let this to happen
Roosevelt, Churchill and pretty much everyone around at the time accepted the existence of race and racial difference. They did not reach the same conclusions as Hitler. You say that acknowledging racial difference is a slippery slope to Nazism. I disagree. When you outlaw certain forms of thought you make them mystical and appealing. The typical Daily Mail reader knows that there is a difference between a Japanese woman and a Jamaican man. They do not suddenly start goose stepping upon realising.
>Roosevelt, Churchill and pretty much everyone around at the time accepted the existence of race and racial difference Hitler was consistent. Most others were not.
Thinks he's on some mission to save the world, only people who ignore history cannot see the red flags all around Schwab. I wouldn't say he's already "evil" it's too early to tell but that we should watch him like hawks we absolutely should because the potential for evil in someone like Schwab is overwhelming
These guys weren't just on the front the whole time. Other units would relieve them. People would go on leave. And if you've ever been in combat, getting shot at will wake you the fuck up pretty quickly.
As for going without sleep? Welcome to the army! Hell, in civilian life I get an average of 5 hours a sleep a night during the busy summer months at work.
Not going to lie the whole "race is a social construct" argument that you argued is a bit of a cop-out denying that each people (race in this case) aren't different, a non-argument so to say. There are obvious differences, both physically in genetics and body characteristics such as eye, hair and skin color and how their bodies have adapted to live in specific climates and environments as well as more broad things such as regional culture and ingenuity to their respected regions of the world. The common argument is "we're one race, the human race", yeah true, but there's sub races of humans. Dogs, for example exist, but there are different breeds. So to are their different types of humans, just like dogs who have different type's of physical characteristics and intelligence levels. Yes I am aware there are "exceptions" that people will use to undermine that idea such as above average IQ's in relatively low IQ countries or how there are fair eye and skin people in Pakistan but the point stands that people, no matter where they are in the world live by in groups and out groups on a primal level and they will always see stuff through a race-based lens, it's almost like its ingrained in us as a natural phenomena, as opposed to a social based construct. Race is real, and I could get into semantics but I don't want to make a fuss. Go to a foreign village or town somewhere off in Nigeria or Pakistan or Central Asia or Europe as an outsider and see how you are treated, most will say you're an outsider because you are an outsider. "Race" is yes a politically loaded, term but saying it doesn't exist or is a social construct is just kicking the can down the road and in my opinion denying a very real thing. Look at Japan for instance, they specifically have an identity for who "is" and "is not" Japanese, the Nihonjin (Japanese) and Gaikokujin (foreign people).
Miss me with that bullshit, I quote word for word “ Go to a foreign village or town somewhere off in Nigeria or Pakistan or Central Asia or Europe as an outsider and see how you are treated, most will say you're an outsider because you are an outsider.” Don’t shoehorn your bullshit into here and put words I didn’t say in my mouth. I have no hate for black men here in America, they have just as much of a right to this country as the European-Americans. Many may argue what they want but Blacks are part of the founding stock to the nation
I was pleasantly surprised by the mention of my favourite despot, Klaus Schwab, and was even more delighted by your reference to Dave Cullen. The truth needs to get out there, thanks for doing your part!
What is this ‘truth’? What is the evidence? Nothing in the clip on the video seemed remotely despotic, and the video TIK linked too was completely tinfoil hat and unevidenced.
I think the big thing is that people are scared by the fact that a human could be so evil yet be so "logical".
That's a very good point!
Agree, many wish to deny the idea the evil exists, and that people can be evil, and/or do evil things. If evil does not exist, then governments ruled by "the wise" can do many things without consideration of morality or human or consitutional rights. That is the agenda behind denying the existence of evil. We have the ability, as humans, to do terrible things to each other, and to be able to live with it. Evil people can still have loving relationships, enjoy the opera, and have a nice meal for dinner. With humans, evil is an everyday thing, it is part of the human condition.
People have this caricature version of Nazis in their mind, ranting madmen foaming at mouth, spewing hatred and nonsense. Nobody is actually taught how mistaken principles can lead people into a form of reasoning that logically leads them to evil.
More than tens years ago, I was in college, and took a course on the Holocaust. It was for higher level history students who, presumably, knew a bit more about history than the average student. But when it came to primary source readings, they'd see something like Alfred Rosenberg or Gottfried Feder, and they could not believe those men were Nazis. Their arguments were entirely too rational. These people were too intelligent and educated to be Nazis. They believed Nazis were only the unwashed, stupid, and hateful masses.
That's the problem with dehumanizing evil people in history. They become other-ed so much that people can't ever recognize similarities they might themselves bear to those people.
He was not evil,he had an ideology that included doing horrible things but in his mind was for the good of the german people,so, anyone can do the worst of things with good intentions in their head. The lesson to learn is that there are no cartoonish villains,only humans.
@@sujeto16a People who are willing to do horrible things at great cost, "for the greater good," are not exempted from being evil. It's even worse when they actually aren't serving the greater good because their base assumptions are wrong.
It's worrisome how invested people are in dehumanizing Hitler to the point where they would never recognise a new Hitler in the making.
Nailed it
It seems like it's hard for a lot of people to realize that understanding something or someone does not mean supporting it. Dehumanizing evil people seems like a psychological defense mechanism, to avoid having to grasp the reality that every genocide in history was carried out by human beings. It seems like that is such a scary thought to some people that they can't even imagine it.
@@LUR1FAX I think you got it there. Like a cognitive dissonance. Easier to say he's crazy than to say he could be you or I or the Baker down the street.
Or maybe they've already recognized a Hitler that they like and are just hoping no-one else recognizes it.
Got to see the german movie "Er ist wieder da"
A lot of history gets oversimplified until it becomes a stereotype or caricature. This is the worst way to do history. TIK is doing history right.
You are absolutely right
I hate when people just boils the eastern front to: Lol, hitler attacked in the winter.
Just show's how ignorant humans can be and are happy to be fed with lies.
Buuuut - being a devil's advocate here, or offering an additional argument - you need to simplify things for the general public, because one simply doesn't have the time and mental capacity to take in all of this. That is the historians' job: To take all available facts, analyse them as best as they can and then tell a truthful narrative - "truth" being a simplified interpretation of reality which helps with understanding the reality.
And sometimes...you need to oversimplify. To tell a world war in one sentence. Not always, but sometimes.
What do you think about creating narrratives which don't primarily stem from the facts, but those that aim for a better goal? In this case I'm thinking about the Rommel myth (and MHV's video on it), that Rommel's legacy was embellished to be used for creating a good foundation for Bundeswehr. Can you build a better future on lies or half-truths? Can you get rid of them afterwards?
Hahha funny history channel..Hitler № 3... 😁
ua-cam.com/video/WsSGmTFBtiA/v-deo.html
It's important to remember that being on drugs doesn't automatically make you impaired. Half of Silicon Valley and Wall Street are on all kinds of stuff while at the same time make a killing.
Depend on what drugs u are on and what u need to do. If u need to do PT or being conscious long times as a pilot then meth is great, but if u need to discuss things with other ppl and listen to arguments and take well thought decisions.. not so much!
A lot of coke for Wall Street. Mainly weed or psychedelics in Silicon Valley.
People forget or don't know that most, if not almost all, of the "great" people we look up to in history were on some drug or another; after looking into it, especially with Paul Erdős, I'm tending to believe that drugs either caused them to see things differently and therefore became great or that it improved their already great abilities because they weren't just getting high off it. But that's just my current view.
Lots of doctors on cocaine as well.
Yes, making a killing is what the NAZI were all about ! You got it !
Madman Hitler myth: Who are you?
Madman Druggy Hitler myth: I'm you, but crazier
When you say "you", do you mean "you gentiles"?
Anyone who studies history should come to the conclusion that, "the road to Hell is paved with good intentions".
The Great Reset is for our own good supposedly.......I like how TIK weaved current events into the narrative and made a not so subtle point about recurring historical parallels.
@@peetena1481 The Great Reset...also known by its real name...Bankruptcy. Everything is tied to loans...even Pensions. The idiots would condemn this generation to dying poor and without a pension.
@@darktimes9489 They declared every man for himself in 2008. It's taking this particular ship quite a while before she begins the final plunge into the depths. Longer than I thought it would. I still think we have a couple years left before an epic shit storm of unimaginable size and scope strikes in it's wake.
Nicely worded
Exactly it's a brilliant quote. Very few people consider themselves the villain. Most of the worst things in human history the perpetrators thought they were doing the right thing for their nation people and the world.
6:30 If I was Hitler, I would have started drinking by 1943 too xD
It's certainly understandable given the fact that the empire he spent almost his whole life trying to create started crumbling around him
@@TheImperatorKnight I have a question regarding your video TIK. I remember that a while ago the World War 2 day by day channel from indy neidell made a video claiming Hitler was injected a literal hardcore drug-cocktail regularly from 1936 on by Morrel. They really went into detail and even mentionend an account that Hummler allegedly stole one of the injections and had it analyzed in a lab, revealing its content, but he didnt tell Hitler. Where do these claims come from?
@@annairinastoll2960 To my recollection, he drank a schnapps of liqueur or cognac (dark fluid) in June 1942. He wasn't drunk though.
@@annairinastoll2960 narrative. its a well put acros channel(s) that those guys have, but all they push is pure narrative, and now they make alot of money doing so
@@annairinastoll2960 tik is of on this one he is trying to make sure that we all blame the germans generals since for im germans genrals who survives made excuses to explain why they got thier ass kicked but if he wasnt a little mad how the fuck do you send million of people to their deaths
People are truely out here thinking WW2 was started by a meth binge
Whether Hitler took drugs or not, he didn't start a world war. A war between Germany and Poland was not a world war. It became a world war when England and France, nations with world empires, declared war on Germany. And for what? To defend Poland? Is that why they not only didn't declare war on the Soviets who also invaded Poland, but also gave it all over to the Soviets after the war? The Soviets, by the way, who had more people killed before the war began than Germans are said to have killed in 12 years of National Socialism.
Tens of millions of people died in the war, and for what? To defend Poland or to destroy a Germany who stopped paying international finance, a Germany who took internationalists out of power who rule over most of us in the west today?
The shrinking markets he talked about so much was the shrinking meth markets!
lol!
@@josephrichter2104 I am Polish. I'm glad UK and France DOW'ed Germany. Fuck off from my country. Yeah, fuck off I said it. Maybe Baltic was rightfully German, debatable. Maybe that war could have been over that, if we lost, we lose corridor ok, I could take it. But nooo, Germans had to go through everything and everyone. The idea that Allies escalated already aggressive politics of Hitler is just wrong. The narrative "Poor Hitler hand was forced, he couldn't do anything else, all of options were exhausted" is ridiculous, toxic and revisionist.
@@josephrichter2104 I doubt understand your logic. If I tell you I will punch you in the face if you punch my friend you do it anyway. You cannot then say that I would the one who initiated the fight. Also the weimar government were social democrats. All the nazi did was replace who socialist ideology for another.
@@josephrichter2104 You rubbed me very wrong way. I am from Klodzko, Glatz in your damn language. I remember old nazis coming over and pointing houses they lost after Soviets kicked their asses west. When I was a little brat I would be told these assholes come over and plot how they could come back. I used to throw rocks at these old closet nazis. I used to feel bad later in my life that I did it, but after seeing comment like yours I am actually glad. German language on Polish soil is not welcome. You overstayed your welcome. Oswiecim, Majdanek, Belzec, Chelmno nad Renem, Sobibor, Rogoznica, Sztutowo, Gesiowka, Treblinka. Thank you Germany for these awesome memories, that are engraved into entire nation forever. Kind regards, Pole.
I cannot praise your patience enough when dealing with all these people online, who fundamentally misunderstand the topics in your videos. To go so far as to accuse you of being a nazi or a Hitler idolater!
Thank you TIK for bringing so many greatly detailed videos on WW2 and beyond
Nobody actually believes he's a nazi, they just throw the term at him because they don't agree with him. They do it quite often to other people.
You must be joking? His favourite hobby is blaming Nazis for everything, and everyone else is blameless....
It's sadly astonishing that by trying to understand (emphasis on understand) Hitler & his pernicious ideology one could believe that such at attempt at understanding meant agreement or support for Hitler! Ouch! The Third Reich was so destructive, not because its leaders were "insane," but because they posessed a wealth of qualities that are admirable in themselves - but not when directed to the destructive cause they served. You can be evil AND intelligent at the same time. Sadly ...
Can be lol? Dude one being intelligent and kind or even just of a normal temperament is the rarity. Intelligence in a modern society often lead's to despising society... Maybe we could figure out why that is? Or not you know fuck it ain't broke don't fix it. 😅
To be fair tik, '' mad man druggie hilter'' has a ring to it
I will concede that point ;)
if you dont form a band with that name i will be disappointed in you
"hilter skilter"
Adolf's personal physician Dr Morrell had some weird cures which probably contributes to the narrative.
@@TheImperatorKnight You really need someone like Dr Edward Dutton to educate you on this silly "race does not exist" line you keep peddling.
Deserves a thumbs up for the thumbnail alone!
Terri did a good job with this one
I was thinking exactly the same. XD
@wakenbaker-uk Lol :D
It looks like the latest flavor sensation from Hitler Ice Cream.
TIK History has used LSD with Joe Rogan confirmed.
Towards the end of the war the Germans dumped a load of pervitin into Finland, where the downsides of the drugs weren't as well known. The result was that after the war and during the 50s Finland had the highest consumption of amphetamines in the world.
Several gold medals at the Winter Olympics
I guess it was some way to punish Finland for seeking peace with the allies&USSR. I heard there were instances of German soldiers becoming literally braindead and having permanent damage after being overdosed with pervitin and other "wonderdrug" attemps.
@@MrKakibuy I had a roommate start doing meth and I believe it does deal to permanent damage quite quickly.
@@arturocevallossoto5203 Only years of use will cause permanent damage. The immediate damage to one's psyche is mostly caused by sleep deprivation. Amphetamine is prescribed to children and adults for ADD quite frequently for long periods of time.
And then Nokia happened
Germany after World War I: a generation of survivors with PTSD.
@Ron Lewenberg Yeah I think that was a product of the PTSD as well. But who knows? Mental health was in its infancy back then and Germany was broke, etc... Bad situation for sure.
yes after being traumatised by war the first thing one wants to do is go back to the front
Goring was on morphine, got detoxed during Nurnberg.
He was wounded during WWI iirc in air battle and got on painkillers.
Keep up the good work, TIK!
Can't really blame him for that, WW1 was absolute hell.
When he was captured he had 20,000 dihydrocodeine(a fairly mild opioid that unlike codeine has no ceiling dose so you can take as much as your tolerance allows) tablets on him(thought to be most of the worlds supply of that drug at the time). He told the allies he needed to take 32 a day and they were heart pills lol.
He was also shot in the Munich Putsch, escaped to Switzerland & found that Morphine was a pain-killer.
@@bigvinnie3 Seriously? Wow.
Yeah freaking nuts huh@@andyfriederichsen
It's sad that you have to spend ten minutes explaining you're not a 'Nazi,' before you can get to the point.
That's the world we live in today. You have to wrap everything in disclaimers or people jump to moronic conclusions.
It's funny because he people gets called a commie by nazis, and a nazi by commies
Even scarier Joe Biden is friends with him and even took his build back better slogan.
@@gutzzgutzz6795 Wait, joe biden is friends with TIK?
Amen to that dude.
Besides the usual historical insights, respect for calling out the dystopian delusions of Klaus Schwab. Well done, as always.
fking Klaus!!!!
YOU VILL VEAR ZE MASK!
YOU VILL EAT ZE BUGS!
YOU VILL OWN NOSING AND YOU VILL BE HAPPY!
What’s so bad about klaus schwab?
Would anyone mind explaining?
Honestly curious since the sources I see criticizing him (including tiks link) don’t seem to have concrete evidence damning him as a anti semite etc.
@@markjoelreyes4440
Nothing to do with antismallhatism (thanks, censorship!) and everything to do with general tyranny.
@@maybemaeb So more of a person who subscribes to the old league of nations view of a sovereign world league? I really need to do more reading on this as I usually enjoy TIKS battle series, but struggle to comprehend his economics series.
as Im crunching through the video TIK linked theres this part about stakeholder capitalism a close cooperation between government and corporations. It doesnt sound perfect but several countries have made this work right? like korea and japan with corporations loyal to the state (to a point) and the state able to dictate where corporations invest their funds(to a point)
EDIT
Yeah I dont think ill be able to finish the link TIK posted. I respectfully disagreed with alot of what this other dude was saying. But once I heard the stuff about complaining about mandatory wearing a mask or getting vaccinated as a terrible tradeoff for freedom it turned me off on the whole thing.
Adolf trippler
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Ah yes the big three:
Adolf Drippler
Benito Swaggalinnie
Hideki JoJo
TRIGGEERD
Somehow I imagine the world a better place if painter Hitler WAS on LSD. It might've gotten him into art school.
Wouldn't bet on it
World isnt better even hitler didnt showed up. The world is already fvcked up in the first place
@@Made_In_Heavenn true, but without Hitler we’d have the USSR possibly collapsing earlier in early 1940’s, Keynes couldn’t use ‘oh see a war, so you can’t judge me for my policies and rhetoric.’
That and China also wouldn’t likely have had Russia as very reliable as it had been since the USSR would’ve been worse off without the Lend Lease air drops America supplied to them in WW2.
This would’ve probably cut the propaganda bullshit earlier
@@silent_stalker3687 Without Hitler, Stalin could had started WWII himself.
@@jakublulek3261 I never said that, I said without Adolf we’d probably wouldn’t have the USSR as well as it was in the 1940’s... which is to say people stealing animals off the street to eat is where it was at at the time.
John F Kennedy was just as dependent on drugs as Hitler, but no-one claims that messed with his judgement
Nobody? Really?
@@cwolf8841I haven't heard anyone mention JFK's drug problems aside from like one UA-camr I think
Your point is brilliant because there is even more to learn. Not only can humans do terrible things but other people can Overlook the evil and follow terrible people to do terrible things in large numbers. Thank you for your precise analysis of why we study history.
And thank you for your comment! What I explained ties into what I said a while ago in my history theory video. If you haven't seen it, I'd recommend it ua-cam.com/video/PvpJEc-NxVc/v-deo.html
Imagine if a mad junkie almost conquered the entirety of the world
Our hollow world.
@RoMMeL1337ak47 Ironically, by the teaching of the man that tried to destroy them and failed
@RoMMeL1337ak47 Im talking about the kids part hahaha, "he alone, who owns the youth, gains the future"
@RoMMeL1337ak47 the "nordic aryan" keyboard warrior in its purest form
@RoMMeL1337ak47 it is, hahahaha
Literally nothing I can comment can impress you, but thank u for this valuable content
Well, I appreciate the comment nonetheless :) thanks!
Historian Indy Neidell on the WW2 Channel tried Pervitin in Prague. Now that's what I call research!
Right at the source!
Indy's great, but I didn't know that; I'll have to check that out.
Historical research in action.
Ahh yes, Indy "National Socialism wasn't real socialism" Neidell.
@@ivanthemadvandal8435 Was he on speed at the time?
Well, to be fair, "High Hitler" is a pretty catchy (and hilarious) phrase!
This is one of the most wholesome and most important videos you've ever made.
You've levelled up in reality-pilling business.
Glad you liked it 👍 went a little bit beyond what I normally do, but the video topic sort of warranted it... If it hadn't been about drugs, I probably wouldn't have thrown as many 'red pills' out there
@@TheImperatorKnight yeah from minute 7 to 15 I was like DAMNNN :D I hope you open this door a little more as we go. A bit of stingy cold fresh air that slaps you in the face is great from time to time :) Of course, whenever it is suitable and fitting, like in this case.
Lol really? There’s barely any info in this video and tik talks about vegans and their stomachs (like he knows anything about that). You got to be dumb if you think drugs played any part of his(hitlers) decisions, so I don’t know what the point of this video other than clickbait.
And it was reputed that Mussolini only ate, 'the Spicy Meatball.'
Mussolini liked to eat all of those "juicy meatballs" uwu
Mamma mia!
Your damn right!
Hitler had an acrimonious relationship with his generals because he was on drugs? Neh, Hitler was on drugs because he had an acrimonious relationship with his generals.
FFS they were effing generals, they and Hitler likely all had at least 1 or 2 iron crosses and twice the average testosterone level. They’re not a ladies book club. They’re going to fight a bit.
I'm shocked you didn't reference Hitler's book in this entire video. He obviously wrote his playbook while he was in prison. He then develops and executes his plan and then people jump to the "drug intoxication" narrative. Great content yet again.
Hitler, the nazis, and that period in history have become so cartoonified that we can no longer learn from and avoid history mistake's
what TIK is trying to do is rehumanize that time period so people can learn from it and avoid repeating the horrors of that time!
I had this conversation with a Jewish man once, that casting the Nazis as super-mega-crazy-evil in a whole different reality than anything else in history is actually really bad for society and understanding how things played out... And how they could repeat. Very few people even understand what the politics of Nazis actually was and would have no way of recognizing it. And more controversially, I argued that treating them like that over time will ultimately turn Nazis subversive heroes like pirates and Vikings. We name our sports teams after those people because they are symbolic of extreme aggression, it's that there's been enough time that their murdering and pillaging has lost its edge and now they're "heroes." Overall, the Jewish man didn't care for my arguments, but he grudgingly admitted I had a few reasonable points.
@@ressljs exactly.
Just look at todays leftists they run around calling anyone who even slightly disagrees with a nazi, whilst they themselves actually act like nazis with their bullyboy political tactics.
The British gave their tank crews Benzidrine (methamphetamine) in the North African campaign. One account I read of a British officer described his hallucinations after three days on the stuff.
Lmao he was tripping balls
Benzedrine is amphetamine, not methamphetamine. It's much less potent than meth.
@@signoguns8501 Pervitin - the drug that Germany widely distributed to its soldiers and tank crews, and apparently also the drug that even Wikipedia claims that Funny Mustache Man is only "rumored to have begun... using after1937... although disputed by historians...." - is also an amphetamine, not methamphetamine.
Apparently the Japanese military distributed and used methamphetamines under the name Philipon during the war, before the effects were widely understood.
Allied bomber pilots were also given amphetamines such as Benzedrine to keep them alert through long bombing runs, and it seems that amphetamines more recently were voluntarily used by US pilots for much the same purpose during the the Persian Gulf War. (Allegedly Russian soldiers are using them now in Ukraine, according to Forbes and other sources, and it wouldn't surprise me, though I'll take almost anything the press says about that war with a grain of salt.)
The Soviets apparently also dabbled in drugging their soldiers, but that information doesn't seem to be as easy to find: 2,4-Dinotrophenol seems to have been a (non-amphetamine) Soviet wonder-drug for its fighters in cold weather, otherwise used as an herbicide, explosive, and weight-loss drug, which had the mixed benefit of keeping Soviet soldiers warm in frigid Eastern Front weather by quickly burning fat, keeping the soldiers alert and awake and active, at the risk of heart attacks and starvation (the starving Soviet soldiers had precious little body fat to spare without burning it faster to stay warmer), I see some references to various sorts of drugs being distributed to at least Soviet special forces, but over all the Soviets seemed to be pretty secretive on the topic, though, and I get the strong impression that much of the "Mad Druggie Mustache Man" myth was authored by the Soviets, as part of a Narrative that went something like "The decadent capitalist west use all these drugs, while the great Soviet super-soldiers only need all-natural vodka and True Socialism to conquer the world!" I press X to doubt....
WWII, like WWI before it, was a high-tech war where the various fighting forces quickly adopted all sorts of new technologies to gain advantage against their enemies, and "wonder drugs" were just one of the new high-tech weapons they adopted.
I would bet that pretty much every major participant in WWII that could afford to do so used amphetamines in one form or another during the war, and no doubt afterward,.
@@signoguns8501 It depends about how much u take it..
@@ss88sa88 Kind of. But its like comparing codeine and fentanyl. Both opiate based, theyre both narcotics with similar properties, but one is much more potent than the other.
Here in Czech Republic the German Pervitine production took an unexpected spin decades later when it was first experimented on by the communists and then rediscovered by underground figures who used the German research started "cooking" Pervitine in the 70s, which was something totally unheard of behind the Iron Curtain. This resulted in massive Pervitine problem and huge consumption that largely lasts to this day. As such, I cant imagine the drug being used long-term by the troops, it is totally devastating after a couple of months and, as you mention yourself, its initial kick only results in a huge exhaustion and "sleeping loan" later on, not to mention horrid anxieties and paranoia.
I was in the Airborne Infantry for 18 years and the higher ups always tell you the enemy is inferior.
Wait a minute....who's higher up than the Airborne?
@@sionnach1311 The commanders that kick you out of the plane.
@@sionnach1311Space force.
I pressed a like before starts the main topic of video.
I love your attitude towards history.
21:57 As an Ex Soldier. Main Battle Tank. On extended ops you are 'cat-napping' all the time. this sustains you. The periods of movement, and action are always punctuated by a chance to 'cat-nap'. So the hours of 'action' and 'movement' are subsidized during it with sleep. (cat-naps) Trust me on this, - Its how a soldier functions. It's a messed up hourly schedule, but its how it works, - Obviously there are wide spread situations (like the British SOE/SAS in the Italian resistance) where Benzedrine saved their lives (Speed) as they could carry on functioning as human beings. (Obviously they had a total collapse once in safety)
I'll add to this, As an ex-trawlerman after I left the Army, I one time did a 70 hour stint with no sleep, at the end we were literally 'sleeping on our feet' going with the motion of the boat. Your hands are making a gutting of a haddock motion, but there's no fish there, - Then you realize you had been asleep on your feet, then you are relieved that everybody else is to knackered to even notice.
This isn't a narrative this is my life experience.
Thank you so much for talking about Klaus Schwab, people should be paying more attention to his sick ideas, he has a lot of influence.
Care to summarise for someone who's never heard of him?
@@lucaswatson1913 Watch the video TIK recommended, by Computing Forever.
@@JamesPawson better yet, dont do that. Computing forever is crazy
Let me guess, Computing Forever is muh Nazi because you dislike his personal beliefs and so that means he’s clearly a Nazi and crazy, right? I’ve watched the guy a couple times and I never got the impression he was crazy. Disagreed with him, if truth be told, but he’s not muh fascist.
@@lowlandnobleman6746 saw some of his shit a while ago when i was into that sort of crowd, didnt remember much. Then i saw a video by another youtuber in which he shows computing forever pushing the narrative that someone is trying to replace the european population with immigrants. He very nearly goes over the line into antisemitic conspiracy theory territory, bit stops himself short.
Anyways it was a video by a youtuber named 3 arrows. A lot of his videos are arguing against conservative ideas.
For your information, i dont think people who disagree with me are crazy, and i dont conflate conservative with nazi. Its just when you push weird ass conspiracies like the replacememt narrative, yeah i think thats crazy
Great video TIK, in general your presentation style has improved so much. You seem more relaxed, confident and easy going.
If the problem was Hitler and his drugs, what do we do with people like Heydrich, Dirlenwager, Eichmann and Peiper? All they were on drugs?
It's hard to sneak a shot of H or do a line of Peruvian marching powder or blow a fat blunt in a Panzer on the down low, I imagine..😵😂
The system enables guys like Heydrich and Eichmann to have psychopathic tendencies and they always explain away their killings with euphemisms. Even if they are not on drugs they rationalize their murders.
@Rifle Eyez It's the opportunistic evil being talked about here, just like Hans Landa in the inglorious bastards. Himmler knew it was evil so he tried to make deals with the allies. Drugs or intoxication is one way they would want to explain away their mass killings. Then it would be the system, or just Hitler, whatever it takes to exonerate themselves.
@Rifle Eyez We are all capable of evil. There is no saints, just normal average Joe's when given the opportunity of a life time most will take it and bear the consequences afterwards. All sides of this conflict do it, even the good guys. The poor, the defeated were more easily manipulated because what have they got to lose? Some have more hindsight than the others and emigrated to the Americas before the 30s.
Churchill in his own admission would have been labelled an alcoholic whisky port champagne rum daily diet
There is a picture of the Beatles in Hamburg, sometime around early 61 or 62,
all with huge gins, _"and holding up Previtin bottles"._
We have become accustomed to seeing Hitler only as a manic, screaming demagogue because of his famous speeches to the assembled masses. The caricature of him biting his carpet and screaming in rage has become accepted. But far more realistic is the sober, calm, rational HItler behind the scenes. He could inspire fear and the utmost obedience in his highest chain of command simply with his cold-blooded presence. The only record we have of what he sounded like in private conversation are the Hitler-Mannerheim tapes of 1942. It's hard to connect this man's casual private conversation with an individual who could coldly order the extermination of millions of Jews in the Holocaust, and other horrendous crimes. But that is an equally scary part of who Hitler was.
I was under the impression that Goering was a morphine addict. I thought he had been hooked after a near-fatal injury in WWI.
As an aside, I feel like the maximum benefit of Pervitin would be approximately hours 16-36ish, with hour 0 being the waking time. Ive never been in a combat situation while using, but for focus and rational thinking, its benefit was only about a full 24 hours starting around the time one would normally sleep. After about 48 hours on Pervitin, I think the crash and lack of sleep would seriously hinder someone's mental faculties. Say they get 4 hours of fitful sleep. They may be forced or compelled to re-dose just to achieve some level of function. So I can see the argument that some soldiers were hardcore addicts. It's probably heavily exaggerated, especially the argument that it played a major role in the France/Poland victories.
I'd also seen a chart that documented barbiturate injections given by Morrell. So that wouldve been a nighttime medication. It's basically the early 20th century version of benzos (Valium, Ativan, Klonopin, Halcion ). A lot less selectively binding, a lot more dangerous in overdose as a result of the peripheral effects. This wouldve led to dependence quite rapidly. The question would be whether he was really impaired to the point of living in a totally separate reality. If he truly was, I doubt he'd have remained in power even with all the psychophants in his court. No way.
this thumbnail is amazing
Hitler also apparently was given Probiotics by his doctor - that helped his gut pains quite a bit.
Hands down one of my favorite outros, love the genuine giggle at the end, made me smile.
"Madman Druggy Hitler" was my nickname in college.
It was my nickname in highschool.
That laugh at the end.. Seems like TIK is high on life right now. Good for you. Also amazing thumbnail.
Indy, stick to Pearl Harbor -
Oh wait, wrong channel.
:))))
The "Spartacist" is the problem, he is the one that runs the show and has a huge political agenda
@@francescomiele6601 Indy & the team even give the Germans a little credit during the 1939-1940 campaigns so yeah they are not biased
Just offering a neutral POV of both sides
@@francescomiele6601 You know where comes the sentence "Hitler was a socialist?" From the socialist saying, Hitler was not a real socialist he just wanted the name to trick the workers. Socialism is "good" therefore nothing bad can be attached to it. This is a problem, as most of the Academia leans towards the left, that is the vision we have been spoon-fed. One thing is to be against Hitler and NS and another thing is because I am against it I can use whatever I want that fits my ideology: from madman to drug issues, or not being a real socialist. That is a perversion of History and a true effort no to find the truth but to silence the debate and censor the critics. No surprise, the Left has always kept the prerogative of being the ones that can name other people's ideology, but watch out if you touch their precious "ring".
And besides that, he is not doing anything radical or new. He is just doing on YT what they do in the schools in Germany and had many of my German friends being fed up with History in general.
No one:
TIK: Madman Hitler!!!
That thumbnail deserves an award. That must have taken more time than to make the video.
His sign off: “Stay inside. Save lives.” Aged like fine wine.👍🏻
Excellent video. As someone who is an amateur ww2 professor and has loooooooots of experience with hard drugs, I agree with the theories you put forward in this video. Valid points. Wish i had teachers like you in school...
You know WAY more than I do and I agree with 99.9999999% of the things you say except this. ONLY because as someone who has done a metric ton of pretty much any drug you can think of, when I see that video of Hitler at the Olympics rocking back and forth uncontrollably: that is DEFINITELY someone who is on something at that moment in time at least
Hitler in a nutshell “drugs make you do some crazy things”
Makes you hear noises that aren't there.
cocaine's a hell of a drug .
TIK, I wholeheartedly agree with you. Your comment is so insightful and I believe more people need to hear this. Thank you for making this video.
"Turd Ferguson" was a name created by Norm Macdonald (playing Burt Reynolds) in a 1996 Saturday Night Live skit "Celebrity Jeopardy".
I would argue by late 42 he was suffering the mental damage from long term vegan diet. We know know that long term veganism produces a lot of subtle but damaging mental impairments.
"girlfriends that committed suicide".
Was it the paintings?
"Race, which doesn't exist" XD
I can't imagine so off-handedly asserting such a convtroversial statement as fact without any kind of basis whilst doing it personally. Love ur videos anyway tho and ur great. Please keep up the good work, even though I don't agree with every single word you ever say, appreciate your efforts and time very much.
Just discovered your channel and come to the conclusion that you deserve more subscribers.
Thank you for recommending the Computing Forever video. Excellent!
Yes
Standard Oil leased the method to create synthetic petrol from coal to IG Farben. This was disclosed in 2013 by the Freedom of Information Act. Standard Oil did not share this knowledge with the US government during the war.
I mean, the US wouldn't want to make synthetic oil. I wonder how much technical help they gave.
"Stay inside save lives"LMAO
Pervitin is pronounced Per-ve-teen, with the emphasis on the last syllable.
But completely agree with your assertion that if we 'monsterify' Hitler, we deprive ourselves of the opportunity to learn.
That thumbnail was amazing
I really enjoyed your video. And that jab at Herrn Schwab was fabelhaft!
As a neuropharmacologist I have some serious reservations about some of the conclusions you have come to concerning Hitlers, and the German army as a whole’s drug use. I have a deep respect for this Chanel, the history and the insights you come to are fantastic, but it’s all too clear you don’t have a fundamental understanding of how a lot of these drugs work, or even what a lot of these drugs were/are. There are fair too many examples, and I would need to watch the video again and make notes, so from what I remember I will pick a couple of examples to illustrate what I’m trying to say.
Firstly pervitin is methamphetamine, and was incredibly common amongst the German population in the lead up to the war, and in the early stages of the war, it does actually improve concentration, physical and mental endurance etc for a time. Numerous studies, even a quite famous one in Germany in the 1930s involving students having to stay up writing and answering questions fir as long as possible, one group given methamphetamine and the other a placebo, I don’t know if it was a double blind study, I doubt it, but anyway it showed those on methamphetamine could concentrate far longer and keep on task than those on the placebo. Studies on amphetamine based drugs and stimulants in general have shown similar results, and in fact drugs like adderall, which contains a mixture of the two enantiomers of amphetamine are indicated and approved for use in various disorders, as are drugs like Ritalin. Amphetamine in fact was used by pretty much all sides in WW2 and is still used by some militaries to this day, fighter pilots for example may be given it, but only for short term use, and this is based on decades of research. These drugs used for performance enhancement, either mentally (you will see today the rise of drugs like modafinil in universities) or physically really only work over a couple of days, because after 3 days of no sleep you will start to either experience a “come down”, which is not ideal for soldiers, or if you continue to take the stimulant (which will require ever increasing quantities) cause some quite strange side effects, auditory and visual hallucinations, depression, hyper aggression (a common side effect of any drug that increases dopamine release) hypertension (or even hypotension in some cases), abdominal pain etc, none of which are conducive to a fighting force, and the Wehrmacht was aware of this, and various orders and stops and checks were put in place to reduce the consumption of the drug, and not only for the Heer. It is true they had access to pervitin especially in the French campaign, but the number of doses available were not limitless, and the adverse effects were noted, which is why in subsequent campaigns the use of pervitin was much smaller (also the clamping down I mentioned above). Your comments on Stalingrad don’t hold water with me, because it is well documented that by 1942 the use of pervitin was much lower that it had been in 1940. So for that example I both agree with some of your statements and conclusions and disagree, but I think that comes more from your lack of understanding just how these drugs work.
Another example is Eukadol (oxycodone I believe) which you call opium, which it is not, it is opiod, that is to say a synthetic drug that binds to opiod receptors, opium is essentially a mixture of naturally occurring opiates like morphine and codeine, which comes from the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum). Staying on opiates I’d like to mention that Hermann Göring was in fact a morphine addict, an IV one at that, as a result of being shot in the leg during the beer hall putsch, I’m not aware of his cocaine use, but maybe. I’d also like to say that withdrawal from eukadol would not last months, it would be around one to two weeks for the acute withdrawal symptoms, possibly less, and there may be some protracted symptoms like depression or apathy that last up to 6 months, but these are quite different from the acute withdrawal symptoms that most people would associate with opiate addiction (one exception to this would be longer acting opiates like methadone, the withdrawal period can last up to 2 or 3 months but is much less severe, basically the shorter acting the opiate the more intense but shorter the acute withdrawal period and vice versa). Hitler was also given cocaine, I do not know when it was first given to him but it was at some point a part of the mixture that made up his daily (well more than daily) injections, he also used cocaine eye drops I believe. I also wonder why you did not mention that Hitlers health problems (the motor neurone ones anyway) could have been a sign of Parkinson’s disease, which a lot of people do use as evidence of his drug use as the condition is the result of the destruction of dopamine producing cells in the substantia nigra, though I would say his drug use probably didn’t cause this directly, but could have been a contributing factor, however as we do not have his brain to look at we simply don’t know, and are going off the notes of his doctors and late war footage of him.
Another point I want to mention is about IG Farben, which was a conglomerate chemical and pharmaceutical company made up from various other companies such as Bayer (famous for the synthesis of Heroin and Aspirin).
There are more incidents in your video of a basic lack of understanding of how these drugs work, or even what they are which I think should be amended. I really also have to disagree with your statement about veganism, it simply is not true that you cannot live without meat past a certain point, everything that meat contains you can get from lentils, nuts, beans etc and in fact the human digestive system struggles to break down red meat. So we can’t say that is the reason Hitler had stomach pains, again we have to work from the contemporary doctors records, and it’s quite a leap to conclude that his vegetarian diet caused his health to decline, this man was under tremendous stress and lived 75 years ago.
Anyways I apologise fir the rant but there were far too many flaws with your understanding of drugs and the human body and brain, which effect your conclusions, which is a real shame, I know pharmacology isn’t the easiest to understand, but Google is always there to help. You have probably had some of these come up already but if not, I hope this helps you and others understand some these points a little better, I have tried to keep the medical jargon down to a minimum as I know it isn’t necessary. Despite all of the above and more, I do think this is an important topic and the video helps to find that middle ground between people either denying drug use or saying everyone was in drugs all the time (which they were not). Cheers
Like the 3 second intro. Do not forget to " protect the curve, flatten the NHS".
I've never heard about the vegan/vegetarian theory you mentioned. As a veggie (for about 6 years) you hear a lot of peoples theories on why its good or bad but haven't come across that one, not even once. I can say I've had no issues. PS: you said Hitler was a vegetarian and then said that vegan diets are unsustainable (or just uncomfortable?) after 5 years or so. Was Hitler veggie or vegan? Cheers
i dont know it exactly but being vegetarian or vegan is from what i heard very difficult since you need some things that are hard to get from just vegetables. considering that in the 1900s you didnt know so much about and hitler as a public speaker and statesman was very active its highly possible that such a Lifestyle without todays knowledge about nutrition can backfire hard
He ate pasta so he was a vegetarian
Iron anemia affects bone health, mood, and thinking.
Cropper et al dramatically reduced military trainees injuries and attrition by diagnosing and treating iron anemia.
Aside from the content of this particular video, which as usual is fantastic both in the quality of its conclusions and supporting evidence, I would like to say to you TIK, and I do hope that you see this, that I am so sorry that you have been the recipient of so much harassment over the last year or so regarding the videos about whether Hitler was a socialist or not. That fact that someone such as yourself who is so capable of presenting well articulated and supported arguments has become the subject of such backlash is quite saddening. Your content, at least in my own view, is a shining example of how to present a historical argument, and I have no trouble admitting that you have become somewhat of a role model for me in my own academic career. Keep up the great work!
It is impressive that always those like klaus schwab who promise us Utopia will give us Hell.
Are we sure that The Emperor known by his Sith identity Darth Sidious in Star Wars and klaus schwab are not the same character ?
And those that try to be like God end up becoming a devil
Utopias will have different, clashing definitions if you ask different people. And therefore utopias are inherently the opposite, cus it requires other utopias to be dismissed.
One man's utopia is everyone else's dystopia... which is why not never works
I've read a few allied WW2 memoirs where they used Benzedrine (Amphetamine) a lot to keep going. I can't help but think that some of the most insane bravery, while wounded, medal winners, may have been assisted by the drug.
While we’re on the subject of proving/disproving myths about Hitler, was it possible that He might have had PTSD as a result from serving in WW1?
The US military (and likely others) use go/no go pills now. Nothing changes. Hard to fly all night, go to bed in the morning, sleep all day, then wake up at 5 AM and fly all day. Having your sleep rhythms messed up is rough. War screws with your sleep schedule. Go/no go pills make it possible. Our squadron was prescribed so much during Libya that we had to call a safety day.
so the details about the Pervetin side effects reminded me about a funny, silly story based on Indian Mythology... one of our epics, the Ramayana.
So the titular character Rama goes into exile for fourteen years, and his brother is one of the two people who go with him. This brother makes a deal with sleep itself, telling 'her' that he needs to stay awake to protect his brother and sister in law. He tells her not to bother him for these fourteen years and she agrees, on the condition that when she visits, he must not deny her.
And she chooses her moment at the hour when Rama has returned home and is being crowned King in a grand ceremony XD. So, yeah, I agree; never mess with your sleep cycle!
I would be intrigued to find out how many german soldiers survived from 1939 through to the end of the war.
Perhaps world war II wouldn't of happened if Hitler was on LSD. Imagine a world where a stoned, chilled and happy Hitler had existed.
*have happened* Present perfect tense. 'Of' is a preposition.
However, people do say "wouldn't 've happened" and that can sound like 'of happened', but when written like that, it doesn't make any sense.
It doesn't work like that. Give a hallucenogenic to someone who's violent or unpredictable and it just makes things a whole lot worse.
@@localbod OK. Sorry if my bad grammar on UA-cam comments has offended you.
@@hairychris444 Was Hitler violent and unpredictable? I don't believe that he could be described as having these traits.
@@Dale_The_Space_Wizard Perhaps I'm the one who should apologize. No offence meant and none taken.
I see that use of 'of' everywhere on the internet and being an ESL / TEFL teacher I usually say so, when perhaps it would be better to keep my mouth shut. Apologies.
Important video, Tik. I would echo your caution in in attributing widespread drug use to Hitler or the Wehrmacht.
In the first instance, it is is contrary to his very philosophy of being. For the wider armed forces, we must also look at the ability of the body to maintain itself for extended periods in extreme situations.
You have covered the eventual use of drugs by Hitler comprehensively and definitively. However, I would urge caution in agreeing to so readily accepting widespread use of drugs to enhance performance within the Wehrmacht even in 1941.
I have personally experienced both myself and through family members who fought in the Second World War of being able to operate for extended periods on minimal sleep. For example, my father who fought in the rear guard at Tobruk often recalled how they suffered onslaught and bombardments for weeks on end just catching a few minutes or an hour or two sleep whenever they could. This was out of necessity but also so by Arrangement with others in a unit who would cover for a designated person taking a brief rest while the others remained on duty.
There are certain requirements for this to occur. To maintain high performance over an extended period with minimal sleep is possible but requires the following:
- those attempting it need to be young
- they need to be physically fit
- they need to be engaged in a challenging and exciting environment
- they have to see a benefit or goal which the lack of sleep can achieve
- and strangely they need to derive a sense of excitement from the events around them.
When this is transposed into the invasion of Poland or France, or the invasion of Russia, the youth and uniqueness of the situation - rapid victories coming after the trench warfare of WWI - fits all of these criteria.
By contrast, drug use tends to be the result of desperation. Not necessarily borne out of depression but from the very necessary need to maintain performance in the face of adversity. This criteria is met perfectly by a retreat, withdrawal or a siege. To achieve results under conditions which are then likely to be personally hazardous or requiring superhuman strength, drug use then becomes essential even if for short periods of time.
I offer this as complementary comments to your perspective on widespread drug use and would remind you that even at times of of publicly claimed society-wide drug abuse, the majority of people are not taking those drugs and they are performing ably as normal individuals even in exceptional timed. As we often see even today, alcohol and drugs is freely taken (and given to) reporters who have different motivatikns and fear thresholds to the troops around them, often causing a misapprehension which becomes the 'truth' e.g. in Vietnam every soldier was a baby killer and high all the time.
Thanks again for batting a solid innings focommon n sense
Great video Tik, you're getting us used to that ! I also want to emphasize the fact that you rarely cut your speech, some videos on UA-cam make you feel like a fucking epileptic but with yours we actually have the time to simply breathe and calmly listen to what you say ! So good job about that !
Thank you for adding the great reset in here.
I do love how you cut through all the bias and present the truth. I am irritated by people writing books with agendas. Goof job TIK!
I have been a vegetarian since my childhood, and I never faced any stomach issues due to my diet lol, idk how much not eating dairy makes a difference in the case of vegans but a vegetarian diet is perfectly healthy for humans and no it wouldn't cause stomach problems (if you eat such a diet from early in your life that is). Someone like Hitler who ate a meat based diet for most of his life until that point may face such issues due to the gut bacteria in their appendix and large intestine not being suited for a sudden change in diet, since your gut bacteria's composition changes depending on your diet, so if you do a sudden change you're bound to experience stomach issues as the gut bacteria which helps in the digestion is not present in the required quantities.
tldr it's more of a sudden change in diet that causes stomach pains when a life long meat eater switches to either a vegetarian or vegan diet rather than the diet being inherently not suited for humans.
can also be the fact that hitler was highly active and that nutrition wasnt aware the risk of just cutting out meat without having other scources. remember unlike you people decades diddnt just had access to every single food of the entire world at their disposal and me personally dont know anyone who is a hard worker physically or public speaker like that was vegetarian. and a lifetime vegetarian is simply Impossible when being a soldier unless you like to starve.
The amount of drugs the Nazis consumed would explain the wacky prototype designs that we love to make fun of.
How do you explain the USSR's flying tank or Churchills iceberg aircraft carrier?
I do wonder how high was the guy that invented the Bob Semple
Desperate times often call for hardcore out if the box ideas.
Huh. I didn’t know Mussolini was also mostly vegetarian. Also never heard of the stomach issues that come along with it after years. Fascinating. I always assumed Hitler’s stomach issues were due to stress etc.
I’ve been trying to say this for years that Hitler isn’t a monster in the mythical sense but a monster in the human sense.
If we demonise or make mythical we can be in denial that any human being has the ability to love, to hate, to help or to be brutes. Well at least my late stepfather told me that. He survived a Nazi concentration camp.
How is race not real? I can't help but think this is some postmodernist bullshit. Just from observing people of different races in real life, I can clearly see there are notable differences between them. Saying "races are not real" sounds like "colors blue and red don't exist" to me. How can anyone say that with a straight face? This is an honest question, I don't want to just criticize this point, I'm honestly curious how can anyone think this?
>London in tatters 20 years into multiracialism "race doesnt exist guys comn"
Race obviously isn't real guys. Ignore the fact that different races and cultures have been destroying the west for the past few decades.
Based.
@landscape I believe @TIK can make it through, and see the real truth, meaning that societies are a racial construct because we aren't all the same, every race has it's own soul and different unique characteristics.
I just write this here because I want you @TIK to remember my comment when you will swallow the redpill but you will be trapped in this new lie that race is a social construct, that race isn't real and you won't be able to say it because you will lose all of your credibility.
Who really believes this?
Personally I like you @TIK besides being apologetic some times, you are a hard working quality man.
@@moonman2758 Not going to happen. Because everyone want nazi to extinct.
@@yulusleonard985 Who talked about Nazis?, i am a Nativist.
Hi Tik, love your videos. I wanted to ask a question regarding the German invasion of the Soviet Union; why did Hitler decide to go for a full-scale invasion of the USSR instead of a partial invasion of the USSR (at the time). As far as my limited knowledge of this subject goes, I would think Germany would have been able to secure vital resources, beef up their military on eastern borders while the Red Army was still dysfunctional, and possibly lessen the impact of the Russian winter while they prepared for a full-scale invasion. This would have allowed Germany to focus more on the western front and more specifically the North African campaign, I would think. Would love your insight on this topic; it's been something that's been on my mind lately. Thanks and always love hearing your insight!
Great work as always.
Just a minor and inconsequential note: the background map is quite sloppy at the romanian-hungarian border.
Thanks Tik! Thanks for the courage to put things where they belong, and I'm talking about the correlation between those horrible past episodes of human history and what is happening right now. Every time somebody thinks people need to be FORCED to be "better" and they have the power to enforce a radical social and economic change it invariably ends in desaster, and that is the case with the so called great reset.
I didn't see the whole video yet, but let me say these things are only possible because of another crucial feature of human nature: We have way more potential to be cowards, willingly ignorants and lazy before this kind of bullies, than potential to be bad persons, so I would say:everything Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao and some other jolly chaps made until now were actually sponsored by the laziness and cowardice of the people; as what is happening (and about to happen) with the great reset.
So please people, stop talking and thinking about us, the people, as "the good ones"... in reality, we surrender, we comply, we obey. Nobody seems to understand why so educated people as the germans could be silent before what Hitler was doing in front of their noses. But the same is happening right now in front of OUR noses. We just obey, nobody even dares to ask a question, just went down our beds and waited to other people solve the current issue, you know what issue Im talking about. Good luck telling our grandsons why we let this to happen
Roosevelt, Churchill and pretty much everyone around at the time accepted the existence of race and racial difference. They did not reach the same conclusions as Hitler. You say that acknowledging racial difference is a slippery slope to Nazism. I disagree. When you outlaw certain forms of thought you make them mystical and appealing. The typical Daily Mail reader knows that there is a difference between a Japanese woman and a Jamaican man. They do not suddenly start goose stepping upon realising.
Problem is that the "racial differences" argument is used a lot by, well, actual racists to justify everything they stand for.
Of course, a Jamaican woman is different from a Japanese one in cultural and racial aspects.
>Roosevelt, Churchill and pretty much everyone around at the time accepted the existence of race and racial difference
Hitler was consistent. Most others were not.
Klaus Schwab is an evil, scary dude. JP Sears also has a great overview of him.
Thinks he's on some mission to save the world, only people who ignore history cannot see the red flags all around Schwab. I wouldn't say he's already "evil" it's too early to tell but that we should watch him like hawks we absolutely should because the potential for evil in someone like Schwab is overwhelming
I like jp. I'll have to look into that
These guys weren't just on the front the whole time. Other units would relieve them. People would go on leave. And if you've ever been in combat, getting shot at will wake you the fuck up pretty quickly.
As for going without sleep? Welcome to the army! Hell, in civilian life I get an average of 5 hours a sleep a night during the busy summer months at work.
People don't want to accept that evil isn't a trait, but a capacity.
Not going to lie the whole "race is a social construct" argument that you argued is a bit of a cop-out denying that each people (race in this case) aren't different, a non-argument so to say. There are obvious differences, both physically in genetics and body characteristics such as eye, hair and skin color and how their bodies have adapted to live in specific climates and environments as well as more broad things such as regional culture and ingenuity to their respected regions of the world. The common argument is "we're one race, the human race", yeah true, but there's sub races of humans. Dogs, for example exist, but there are different breeds. So to are their different types of humans, just like dogs who have different type's of physical characteristics and intelligence levels. Yes I am aware there are "exceptions" that people will use to undermine that idea such as above average IQ's in relatively low IQ countries or how there are fair eye and skin people in Pakistan but the point stands that people, no matter where they are in the world live by in groups and out groups on a primal level and they will always see stuff through a race-based lens, it's almost like its ingrained in us as a natural phenomena, as opposed to a social based construct. Race is real, and I could get into semantics but I don't want to make a fuss. Go to a foreign village or town somewhere off in Nigeria or Pakistan or Central Asia or Europe as an outsider and see how you are treated, most will say you're an outsider because you are an outsider. "Race" is yes a politically loaded, term but saying it doesn't exist or is a social construct is just kicking the can down the road and in my opinion denying a very real thing. Look at Japan for instance, they specifically have an identity for who "is" and "is not" Japanese, the Nihonjin (Japanese) and Gaikokujin (foreign people).
YES! Thank you sir, well put.
Miss me with that bullshit, I quote word for word “ Go to a foreign village or town somewhere off in Nigeria or Pakistan or Central Asia or Europe as an outsider and see how you are treated, most will say you're an outsider because you are an outsider.” Don’t shoehorn your bullshit into here and put words I didn’t say in my mouth. I have no hate for black men here in America, they have just as much of a right to this country as the European-Americans. Many may argue what they want but Blacks are part of the founding stock to the nation
Be interesting to see what decisions Goering made, while being a morphine addict (DF118) or if any.
Probably you get more morphine and more stolen art.
I was pleasantly surprised by the mention of my favourite despot, Klaus Schwab, and was even more delighted by your reference to Dave Cullen. The truth needs to get out there, thanks for doing your part!
What is this ‘truth’? What is the evidence? Nothing in the clip on the video seemed remotely despotic, and the video TIK linked too was completely tinfoil hat and unevidenced.
According to certain reports, Mussolini could "cooka da spaghetti" and "make da meatboll"
The 'Great Reset' movie is 'disappeared'. Is there another source like B'chute or O'dissee? What was the title exactly? Thanks in advance!
If he had nothing to hide why would he delete his videos??? 🤔
The world economic forum part really hit home