"YELLED LIKE MANIACS"

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 141, 17 June 1941, Page 5

"YELLED LIKE MANIACS"

j N AZI SOLDIERS DOPED? jfo.c.) SYDNEY, June 11 | A New Zealand N.C.O. now ii (Svdnev said that German soldier: who recklessly charged Anzac posi tions in Greece were "doped to th' eyes." He said: "They linked arm; frothed at the mouth, and yelled lik' I maniacs. Obviously under somi I powerful drug, they charged witl abandon into the blazing muzzles o our guns. Whole companies wer< [blown to pieces but others came on/ j It has been stated that some o Jthese Germans turned green afte jideath. Commenting on the matter a chemist said the most likely dm; that would account for these synif toms was benzedrine, or its nev derivative, methedrine. Effects o big doses are intense stimulation self-confidence, quick thinking, los of fear and restless activity. Rear tion comes some hours later witl 'dizziness, depression, palpitation am cold shivers. In hot climates corpse .turn first black and then green. ! This chemist said there were othe :drugs which turned a person greei vvhile they circulated through th ! system. "One, named obiturin, wa lon show at a recent German trad I fair. It is used to determine whethe a person who shows no sign of puis lor respiration is really dead. If Iperson who is injected with obituri lis alive, he will show a delicatg gree S tint in the eyes and skin a fc~.v mil lutes after.