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Jihadi_Penguin t1_je7lu98 wrote

Did the reich have a good relationship with anything?

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zachary0816 t1_je7n33u wrote

Believe it or not, cigarettes. They had some anti-smoking campaigns to try to convince people to quit them.

Though they did also have some pro-pervitin campaigns which was basically just meth so I ain’t exactly giving them too much credit on that front either.

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noodlesoupstrainer t1_je7onpl wrote

Lol, "Cigarettes are bad for you, smoke meth!" It's like an ad campaign from [Crazy People](http://www.IMDb.com/ : Crazy People https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099316/).

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messageinabubble t1_je7s0y7 wrote

That is blast from the past. Haven’t thought of that movie in over a decade. Underappreciated

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DCDHermes t1_je7xeba wrote

No, Blast From the Past is a 90’s comedy staring Brendan Fraser and Alicia Silverstone.

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google257 t1_je9z845 wrote

They weren’t smoking it. They would give it to them orally in chocolates or tablets. And all major powers were giving their soldiers stimulants.

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Cetun t1_je89rft wrote

Everyone took amphetamine salts, you could buy it over the counter in the US up until the 70s.

This is a common reddit trope because one guy wrote a book about amphetamine use in the German army and claimed that's how they beat France. Literally that's about the only source for "widespread" use of amphetamines by the German army. The book has been roundly criticized by historians as sensational and dubious, has been criticized by addiction advocates as characterizing drug addiction as "bad because Nazis are addicts", and has been criticized by anti-nazis as unnecessary because Nazis were bad on their own, being addicted to drugs isn't the bad thing about them.

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zezxz t1_je8r5xw wrote

Yeah but that everyone includes Germans too. Amphetamines are generally steroids on the battlefield, and that’s not a concern during war. The premise of the drugs helping Nazis push through against France makes perfect sense but I’ve never heard it called anything more than just that: an aid

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MaxDickpower t1_je8vsnn wrote

It does not make perfect sense. Having your soldiers addicted to meth and crashing hard after the meth wears off is not conducive to effective warfare.

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yawningangel t1_je97nfs wrote

You do realise that USAF pilots were using "pep" pills during the first gulf war?

[Of pilots who were surveyed, 65% used amphetamines during the deployment to the SWA AOR and/or during Operation Desert Storm. Pilots who used amphetamines in air operations described it as "occasional." The most frequent indications for amphetamine use were "aircrew fatigue" and "mission type." Of pilots who used amphetamines, 58-61% considered their use beneficial or essential to operations. ] (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7661838/)

You think the were more restrained in the 30's?

https://thesecuritydistillery.org/all-articles/pervitin-how-drugs-transformed-warfare-in-1939-45

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zezxz t1_jed9y3h wrote

Why doesn’t it make sense?If you’re throwing out troops to slaughter I don’t see what advantage there would be from throwing out sober sacrifices

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badpeaches t1_je7xu58 wrote

Which is weird, when Berlin fell cigarettes were considered a form of money along with chocolate and a few other "unwholesome" concepts.

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TheAleFly t1_jeb5cw4 wrote

Didn't Hitler also encourage people to go vegetarian?

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ovensandhoes t1_je9yjaq wrote

If he nazis didn’t like cigarettes wouldn’t that mean they had a bad relationship with cigarettes too?

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piratamaia t1_je7u6so wrote

Animal rights and ecology

List is over

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T1N7 t1_je8p0wy wrote

Well I wouldn't be so sure about these two things either....

Hitler killed his own dog to test his suicide pill, the logistical backbone of the Wehrmacht was based on horses and the ecology wasn't that important, when you had to produce weapons.

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Chikorita_banana t1_je93fp3 wrote

Yeah and putting aside for a moment my disgust at their existence due to the myriad of other reasons, all those mass graves can't be good for the drinking water supply; PAHs, dioxins, nitrates, pathogens, and many other hazardous substances and intermediates concentrated into large areas percolating into the groundwater over time could lead to serious ecological and public health issues.

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Javaddict t1_je7ycz3 wrote

cancer research, lots of work done relating to cancer causes such as coal tar distillates, carcinogenic food dyes and stuff like that

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DarkImpacT213 t1_je84psc wrote

Anti-smoking campaigns, „improving“ infrastructure throughout Germany (definetly just for the benefit of the German population, right?), building railways in occupied areas (well, we are not talking about the purpose of the railways… but they were helpful after the war!), being a forerunner in banning experiments on animals (…we arent talking about the substitute test subjects though, its better that way)… oh and also Muslims.

So realistically… no, not really.

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FinanceGuyHere t1_je7o2tw wrote

I hear the Autobahn is nice

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DarkImpacT213 t1_je84wto wrote

The first Autobahn was opened in 1926, 7 years before Hitlers rise to power.

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Sith-Protagonist t1_je8i1g4 wrote

And it went nowhere and the project was abandoned from lack of money and support until 1933.

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TavisNamara t1_je9w0ar wrote

It's really not. Car centric society is actively harmful to damn near everyone. If you've got the space and everything needed for a no holds barred high speed nonsense like the Autobahn, you can absolutely build a damn train.

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Nixeris t1_je8tnma wrote

Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, BMW, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Hugo Boss, Bayer, American Jim Crow laws, Associated Press, Chase Bank, Fanta (Coke product), Krupp (ThyssenKrupp)...

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atlantis_airlines t1_jebvkdu wrote

Animal rights as well as wilderness preservation

Of course being Nazis, they even made botany racist, twisting it so that it aligned and reflect with their concept of superiority.

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