“But then the stimulant decree was released, and that enabled them to stay awake for three days and three nights. Rommel [who then led one of the panzer divisions] and all those tank commanders were high — and without the tanks, they certainly wouldn’t have won.” German writer Norman Ohler on how meth powered the Nazis and the course of WWII. (Someone should do a sweeping history of the use of drugs in war, and how those drugs made their way into civilian life.)