PBS: World War Speed
Writer/Director
Steven Hoggard
Producer
Daphna Rubin
Director of Photography
Cory Wascinski
Executive Producers and Creators
Daphna Rubin, Stephen Segal, Steven Hoggard
Lead Historian and Host
James Holland
Network
PBS / Secrets of the Dead
Follow historian James Holland on his quest to understand how the use of amphetamines affected the course of World War II and unleashed the first pharmacological arms race.
It's long been known that German soldiers used a methamphetamine called Pervitin in the Second World War. But have tales of Nazis on speed obscured the massive use of stimulants by all sides during the conflict?
Historian James Holland digs deeper to unearth the truth behind World War Speed — revealing how the widespread use of amphetamines shaped military strategy and changed the course of the war.