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Originally posted by Thepreye
Originally posted by SprocketUK
Amphetamines were issued to the British army, too.
Most notably the LRDG units in north Africa, but also in the other theatres.
Do you happen to know whether the Chindits were on anything, they had a hell of a tough war.
After that, I found clear evidence of the Dutch Cocaine Factory selling coc aine to all parties during the war in a pharmaceutical weekly. Everybody from the British, the Germans, the French to the Canadians. There were many countries involved in that war and millions of soldiers from all over were fighting in the trenches. Neutral Netherlands supplied coke to all of those countries. This a bizarre fact and a dirty piece of Dutch history that was more or less covered up. It’s not as if they teach this in school.
The Netherlands made unbelievable amounts of money of trading during the war. They emerged from World War I as the richest country, together with the United States. But it’s been kept out of the history books.