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Friday, May 31, 2013

‘Pilot’s Salt’: The Third Reich Kept Its...



‘Pilot’s Salt’: The Third Reich Kept Its Soldiers Alert With Crystal Meth
Megan Garber, theatlantic.com

For a while, the stuff seemed to be “the ideal war drug.”

In 1972, Hein­rich Böll won the Nobel Prize for lit­er­a­ture. But before he became a writer of nov­els, short sto­ries, and essays, Böll was a writer of let­ters. Dur­ing his early 20s,…



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