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Будинок бажає її, а Будинок - упертий.

- Люди, які завдали тобі болю, давно мертві.
- То я маю дозволити їхнім нащадкам залишитися безкарними? Дозволити їм наживатися на гріхах своїх батьків і дідів?
- Звісно, ні, ні, пішли вони в сраку.

“Germany, awake!” the Nazis had ordered. Methamphetamine made sure that the country stayed awake. Spurred on by a disastrous cocktail of propaganda and pharmaceutical substances, people became more and more dependent.

such diverse substances as Tonophosphan, a metabolic stimulant made by the company Hoechst, chiefly used nowadays in veterinary medicine; the hormone-rich and immune-system-boosting body-building supplement Homoseran, a by-product of uterine blood; the sexual hormone Testoviron to combat declining libido and vitality; and Orchikrin, a derivative of bulls’ testicles, which is supposed to be a cure for depression. Another substance used was called Prostakrinum and was made from seminal vesicles and the prostates of young bulls.

sick as it might sound: Morell, formerly a popular doctor from the Kurfürstendamm, now with a pharmaceutical empire that he had built out of nothing, used his patients in the Führer’s headquarters—and in all likelihood Hitler himself—as guinea pigs for dubious hormonal preparations and steroids, produced often enough in disastrously unhygienic conditions, then introduced into the bloodstream by injection. The resulting concoction was released into the Reich and to the Wehrmacht: the autoimmunological downfall.

plundered tons of pigs’ stomachs, pancreatic and pituitary glands, spinal cords, and cows’, pigs’, and sheep’s livers. The strict instruction to everyone at the Führer’s headquarters to “prevent any non-crucial vehicle use” plainly didn’t apply to him. He even transported chickens’ feet, which were boiled down to make gelatin. The loading list of a typical Morell wagon was: seventy barrels of salted liver, 1,026 pigs’ stomachs, 130 pounds of ovaries, 440 pounds of bulls’ testicles. Value: 20,000 reichsmarks.