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HITLER'S MEDS
  Hitler's primary doctor, Dr. Theodor Morell, prescribed a wide variety of medications for the Fuehrer whom he noted in his records as “patient A.”  Some of those medications prescribed for patient A were “Ultraseptyl” for intestinal disorder; “Metaflor,” an anti-bacteria preparation, “Vitamultin,” a vitamin injection with glucose; “Pervitin,” a stimulant; “Eudokal,” an opium derivative relaxant and “Eupaverin.” a cramp relaxant.
Source: “The Hitler Book: The Secret Dossier Prepared for Stalin” by Henrik Eberle and Matthias Uhl.

TOO MANY SUBS, NOT ENOUGH CAPTAINS
  During 1941, the Japanese had a surge in the construction of new submarines which out-paced the training of new crews.  Some submarines were put into the hands of commanders who had had only three-years of service in the Navy.
Source: “The Pacific Papers: Japanese Documents of WW II” by Donald Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon.

THAT WORD IS VERBOTEN
  I the years following the war, certain words in Germany were forbidden.  Some of those words were “Fuehrer,” “untermenschen” (racially unacceptable under-men), “endlosung” (final solution), “anschluss” (the take-over of Austria), “selektion” (a word used in the concentration camps to select inmates for slave laborers, the gas chamber, etc.) and “entartete” ( a word often used by the Nazis to criticize modern art).
Source: World War II Magazine, June/July, 2008

BUT THEY'RE OUR “CHINKS”
  Franklin Roosevelt had a great respect for the people of China and expressed it in public many time.  In his private conversations, however, he sometimes called them “Chinamen” and “Chinks.”
Source: “Visions of Victory: the Hopes of Eight WW II Leaders” by Gerhard L. Weinberg.

WE WILL SPLINTER THEM TO DEATH
  In the last months of the war, the Japanese were so short of metals that they made bullets of wood.
Source:  WW II Museum Omaha, NE

 

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