Inventions of the Third Reich: V-2, V-1 Flying Bomb, Extermination Camp, Plankalkül, Z3, Meillerwagen, Jerrycan, Volksempfänger, Z1, Z4, Z2

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: V-2, V-1 Flying Bomb, Extermination Camp, Plankalkül, Z3, Meillerwagen, Jerrycan, Volksempfänger, Z1, Z4, Z2, D-Ix, Olympic Torch Relay. Excerpt: D-IX was a cocaine -based experimental drug cocktail developed by the Nazis in 1944 for military application. Nazi doctors found that equipment-laden test subjects who had taken the drug could march 55 miles (88,5 kilometer) without resting before they collapsed. Each tablet contained 5 mg Oxycodone (brand name Eukodal ), 5 mg of Cocaine and 3 mg of Methamphetamine (then called Pervitin ). The researcher Wolf Kemper, who uncovered the project, said: "The aim was to use D-IX to redefine the limits of human endurance." Nazi doctors were enthusiastic about the results, and planned to supply all German troops with the pills, but the war ended before D-IX could be put into mass production, though it did see limited use among a handful of Neger and Biber pilots. References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Extermination (death)camps were built by Germany during World War II to systematically kill millions of primarily Jewish victims. Non-Jews were also killed in these camps, including many gentile Poles and Soviet prisoners of war. This genocide of the Jewish people was the Third Reich 's "Final solution to the Jewish question ". The Nazi attempts at Jewish genocide are collectively known as The Holocaust . Background Main article: Nisko Plan In 1942, the Lubin District SS-und Polizei-führer Odilo Globocnik under direct orders from Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler , built the first extermination camps during Aktion Reinhard ; the operation to annihilate all the Jews in the General Government . Victims corpses were initially buried in mass graves but later they were cremated (previously buried bodi...