GRGR (14): Pervitin

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

 "Enzian grabs his kit, swallows two Pervitins for the road (...)" (p. 328)

  One of my grandmothers (- we used to play football in her flat and broke some 
  lamps & vases) took Pervitins in the late 40s. There was so much work. With   
  sewing all night for other people she brought the family through. Shortly   
  before the war was over, she went to the hospital where she once had worked as 
  a nurse and asked a doctor she knew for prescriptions of that pills she had 
  heard to be used in the war. The following years she took them constantly to  
  keep things going. Hardly sleeping at all. Then one day, I assume it was in 
  '49, Pervitin was seriously scheduled. There my astonished grandma stood in   
  the pharmacy & that was that. She had to forget about Speed from one day to 
  the other. And did so without complaining. Somewhere in his book Eisner calls 
  amphetamines (- used in the war on both sides) the drug of the 40s. - KFL