[Hannibal]

Nazis Attempted to Make Robots of Their Soldiers

The Nazi leadership had a lot of hopes about the use of D-IX wonder drug

New research shows that Nazis were going to turn their soldiers to robots with the help of a special chemical. Until recently, the chemical has been kept secret. So-called Experiment D-IX started in November of the year 1944 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Eighteen prisoners were marching on the semicircular square, which was used for daily call-overs. The prisoners were carrying backpacks that weighed 20 kilos each. They were circling the square non-stop, while Odd Nansen, Arctic explorer-s son, was watching them from the window of his barracks. Years later, after the war was over, he said that those marching people on the square were called ?pill patrol.¦ They could march without a rest up to 90 kilometers a day. Everyone knew that they were like guinea-pigs that were used for testing the new method for preserving the energy of a human body.

Hitler-s chemists wanted to find out, how long those people could last. At first, those poor prisoners sang songs and whistled various melodies as they marched. Twenty-four hours later, the majority of them fell down on the ground dead. Nazi chemists tested their new wonder pills on those people. The pills were called D-IX. This was also the work code of the whole experiment. The pills contained cocaine together with other drugs. As the Third Reich leaders believed, the new pills were supposed to turn German soldiers into tireless and fearless warriors.

Hamburg-based criminologist Wolf Kemper believes that D-IX pills were Hitler-s last secret development. The pills should have helped him to win the war, which was about to be lost for fascist Germany. Kemper deals with the studies of little-known events of the latest months of World War II. The description of those events will be included in his new book about the use of drugs during the Third Reich era. It is an open secret that the big-time Nazi propaganda held up any drug addiction to shame. Such propaganda was launched back in 1993: Nazis basically lambasted the ?devilish¦ cocaine v the major drug of the demoralized European Bohemia of the 1920s. However, the Nazi regime did not hesitate to let its soldiers use those drugs, trying to turn them into thoughtless robots.

The use of an amphetamine called pervitine was a usual thing at the Western front in the very beginning of the war. Nazi leaders believed that the use of that stimulant would inspire their troops to noble and heroic deeds for the sake of the victory. A factory of the Berlin company Temmel, which manufactured pervitine, supplied the Nazi Army and the Luftwaffe with 29 million of pervitine pills during the period of April-December of 1939. The Ground troops high command ordered to keep that a secret. Official documents mentioned the drug under the code name obm. Yet, Nazis underestimated pervitine-s side effects. The ?consumers¦ could not do without the drug really soon. In 1939, German doctors determined during their inspections at the Western front that the soldiers used pervitine without any control at all. The period to recover from the drug effect was getting longer and longer, while attention concentration ability was getting weaker and weaker. This eventually resulted in messages of lethal outcome in several Nazi divisions in France and Poland. Doctors- warnings were left with no attention. All orderly bags were filled with that dangerous drug during the last years of the war. They prescribed pervitine pills to anyone, who had any ailing complaints.

Nazis conducted more and more of their tests with the new wonder chemical, although the war was coming to its end. It occurred to the Third Reich leaders to launch the series production of the new D-IX substance on March 16, 1944. Vice Admiral Helmut Heye stated at a session with pharmacologists and small military units commanders that there should be a new medicine invented to help German soldiers stand the tense situation longer and to make them feel more uplifting than usual in any situation. After the war, the admiral became a Bundestag deputy for defense issues, by the way. Heye-s suggestion was completely supported by such an influential figure as Otto Skortseni (after the successful operation to release Mussolini in September of 1943, the commander of the Fridental special unit was awarded with the German National Hero title). Skortseni was searching for a new drug for his division for long. After he had a very detailed conversation with the leadership of Hitler-s headquarters in Berlin, there was a group of researchers set up in the city of Kiel. The group was presided over by pharmacology professor Gerhard Orchehovsky. The group was given a task to develop and launch the production of the needed drug. Criminologist Kemper believes that the plan was approved by Adolf Hitler himself: none of such projects could be implemented without his approval.

Orchehovsky came to conclusion after several months of hard work at Kiel University labs that he finally created the needed substance. One pill contained five milligrams of cocaine, three milligrams of pervitine, five milligrams of eucodal (morphine-based painkiller), as well as synthetic cocaine that was produced by the company Merk. The latter drug was used by German fighter pilots during World War I as a stimulant for their large-distance sorties. The invented cocktail of drugs was supposed to be tested by mini-submarine crewmen first. The results were supposed to be checked during their navigation in the Kiel Bay. Skortseni ordered to send him a thousand of those pills. He wanted to test their action on the members of the Forelle diversionary unit of submariners, which was a part of Danube destructive unit of the German death squad.

Researcher Kemper came to conclusion that the results of the tests were very inspiring. That made Nazi leaders continue the experiments, testing the new drug on the people, who walked in circles 24 hours a day, carrying 20 kilos backpacks. Those people were Sachsenhausen concentration camp prisoners. They became like laboratory guinea-pigs in November of 1944. The goal of the experiment was to determine the new stamina limit for D-IX exposed humans. Medical records of that time show that several participants of the experiment felt fine with only two or three short stops a day: ?The considerable reduction of the need in sleep is very impressive. This drug disables man-s action ability and will.¦ In other words, D-IX made a human being a robot. The results of all those tests inspired their initiators to supply D-IX drug to the entire Nazi Army. However, they failed to launch the mass production of the substance. Allies- victories at both fronts in winter and spring in 1945 resulted in the collapse of the Nazi regime. The absurd dream of the wonder drug was crushed.

Semyon Tsur

[Hannibal]

"The absurd dream of the wonder drug was crushed. "

http://news.bbc.co.u...lth/2191324.stm

Modafinil is licensed in the UK to treat narcolepsy, a brain disorder characterised by sleep attacks and abnormal eye movement.

Studies have also been carried out into its effectiveness in treating other illness related fatigue.

But in the US, where it is easier to get hold of the medication, revising students and clubbers - who call the drug "zombies" - are looking to the drug to help them keep going.

And the US Army is said to be looking to use it to create super soldiers who could go for days without rest.



I'd much rather have well-rested soldiers than chemically-enhanced troops

Neil Stanley, British Sleep Society
Rescue teams have even suggested it could help them cope in the event of a major disaster.

Modafinil works by "turning off" a person's need to sleep, and allowing them to remain mentally awake for days on end.



POPULAR SCIENCE




Pentagon dark lord Donald Rumsfeld is shovelling billions of tax dollars into the research furnaces of federal laboratories and private universities across the US in a wide-ranging bid to spawn ‘super soldiers’. Fired by drugs and electromagnetic ‘brain zaps’, the super soldiers will fight without ceasing for days on end. The work is being directed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) – yes, the same outfit now labouring under convicted terrorist-conspirator John Poindexter to build the ‘Total Information Awareness’ network that will allow Washington to monitor the electronic records and communications of every US citizens.

The DARPA ‘war fighter enhancement’ programme – an acceleration of bi-partisan bio-tinkering that’s been going on for years – will involve injecting young men and women with hormonal, neurological and genetic concoctions; implanting microchips and electrodes in their bodies to control their internal organs and brain functions; and plying them with drugs that deaden some of their normal human tendencies – the need for sleep, the fear of death, the reluctance to kill their fellow human beings.



The research is ‘very aggressive and wide open’, says Admiral Stephen Baker of the Center for Defense Information. Indeed, the US Special Operations Command envisions the creation of ‘iron-bodied and iron-willed personnel’, who can ‘resist the mental and physiological effects of sleep deprivation’ while relying on ‘ergogenic substances’ to ‘manage’ the ‘environmental and mentally induced stress’ of the battlefield. Their bodies juiced, their brains swaddled in a Prozacian haze, the enhanced fighters can churn relentlessly, remorselessly towards dominion.

And the term ‘creation’ is not just fanciful rhetoric. Some of the research now underway involves actually altering the genetic code of soldiers, modifying bits of DNA to fashion a new type of human specimen – one that functions like a machine, killing tirelessly for days and nights on end. These mutations will ‘revolutionise the contemporary order of battle’ and guarantee ‘operational dominance across the whole range of potential US military employments’, the DARPA wizards enthuse.

Of course, the Pentagon is not waiting on sci-fi technology to enhance the physical abilities of its soldiers. Old-fashioned off-the-shelf ‘additives’ have long been shoved down soldiers’ throats. For example, the use of amphetamines for pilots has been widespread for decades: during the first Bush-Saddam War, whole squadrons were cranked up on the stuff. Not only is the gobbling of speed officially sanctioned, it’s actively encouraged, even implicitly mandated – careers can be derailed for pilots who refuse to drug themselves.

The results of this dope-peddling were clearly seen on the new imperial frontier of Afghanistan last spring, when two US pilots – hopped up on speed – killed four of their Canadian allies in a ‘friendly fire’ bombing raid. The pilots, now facing legal charges, say US Air Force brass pressured them into taking the mind-altering drug before the fatal flight.

But such glitches are inevitable in any grand scientific undertaking, and DARPA remains undeterred in its bold quest to ‘push the limits of human input/ output’, advance the ‘symbiotic relationship between man and machine’, and customise ‘pharmaceutical technology’ to ‘embolden the war-fighter and his superiors’, as military scientists declared at a Pentagon-sponsored conference on ‘future warfare’.

What happens to the burnt-out husks of these ‘iron’ soldiers after their minds and bodies have been eaten away by relentless modification and ceaseless toil is, of course, of no concern to the Bush regime. Even now, the White House is cutting back on health benefits to military veterans – even going so far as to order veterans’ hospitals not to advertise their services, lest broken soldiers actually seek to claim the promise of support their government once gave them. For men like Bush – protected scions of privilege who sit out wars in safety in booze-addled luxury – such promises are just cynical sucker ploys, aimed at coaxing decent soldiers into acting as the hitmen of empire before they’re discarded when they’re no longer needed.

How very strange it is. Those who want to turn US soldiers into mindless, drug-addled mutants and send them off to kill and die in far-flung wars of imperial conquest are seen as patriots, noble leaders, doing the will of God. Those who would rather see these good men and women called home, treated with honour and respect – their talents and dedication applied solely to the defence of their own great country, not pressed into the service of a greedy, rapacious elite – are denounced as ‘traitors’, ‘anti-American agitators’, ‘allies of terrorism’.

But such is the inversion of values – the wisdom gone astray and turned to fell practice – that now permeates Bush’s Washington and the Pentagon’s fiery crucibles of war.

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[Hannibal]

A real American Hero...G.I.Joe...was there...





I'm sorry...did Hannibal make your widdle bwain hurt again?




Hitler didn't get to destroy America...

This post has been edited by Hannibal: 02 December 2004 - 03:42 PM

[Hannibal]

[Chyld]

Too... much... words... brain... over;l,sdlkfpomsad...

*brain snaps*

Great, I've still got 500 words of essay to write, with no brain...

[Hannibal]

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE
By William Cole
Advertiser Military Writer

CAMP SMITH — It looks like something out of Robocop, a mini tank-treaded terror bristling with so many cannon and guns that only a Hollywood screenwriter could have dreamed it up.

It's designed to be RoboMarine — technically the Gladiator Tactical Unmanned Ground Vehicle — and proponents say it would have come in handy in trouble spots ranging from Somalia, Kosovo and Bosnia to Afghanistan and Iraq.

As unmanned aerial vehicles like the Predator continue to chalk up successes, with more than 10 UAVs utilized in Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Marine Corps expects to be the first service to field a robot for crowd control.

The 4-foot-tall, 1,600-pound concept vehicle recently was demonstrated at Camp Smith, launching dozens of smoke rounds downrange that could have been tear gas, or stingball and flashbang grenades.

Cued by an operator walking behind a rifle squad of Marine police, the Gladiator also fired paintball rounds with pinpoint accuracy, and blank rounds rattled from a swiveling M240G medium machine gun.

With a variety of cameras on board, the Gladiator can see in the dark, and through smoke.

The little armored vehicle also is being designed to perform surveillance, obstacle breaching, and nuclear, biological and chemical reconnaissance.

Ray Grundy, who is with the Marine Corps Combat Development Command in Virginia, told those assembled that there is a gap in U.S. military crowd-control capabilities. To demonstrate, he showed a picture of an M60 tank with a 105-mm main gun facing off against a boy with a rock.

"When you take a look at that picture, it's worth a thousand words," he said. "Today, in situations where U.S. forces are presented with restricted rules of engagement, we're at a significant loss to be effective with non-lethal weapons."

Riot control equipment largely consists of a face mask, baton, shields and shotguns with non-lethal munitions.

"We need to get beyond that and provide the war fighter a capability that allows him to go from a defensive posture to an offensive posture and dominate the battle space," Grundy said.

Serving in the Marine Corps from 1968 to 2001, Grundy experienced firsthand the limitations of crowd-control capabilities in Somalia in 1993 during operations Restore Hope and Continue Hope.

"We have no standoff range," he said, "and as a result, we have to stand toe to toe with a rioting crowd."

The Office of Naval Research in April picked Lockheed Martin and Carnegie Mellon University for the next phase of development for the Gladiator.

Grundy said $1.8 million to $2.5 million is being sought in fiscal 2004 to build prototypes.

The vehicle, with a more than one-mile operating distance, may be redesigned with wheels instead of tank treads.

The Marines hope to field the Gladiators by 2007. Each infantry battalion would have three, and one would be dedicated to a combat engineer platoon.

Already, unmanned vehicles are becoming commonplace in the U.S. arsenal.

In Iraq, Predator drones fired Hellfire missiles. The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International said the Air Force also deployed its high-altitude Global Hawk, the Army employed its Shadow UAV, and the Marines Corps deployed its Pioneer and Dragon Eye, the latter of which fits in a backpack.

The Camp Smith demonstration of the Gladiator was based on a scenario in which an angry mob of 600 activists in a desert city refuses to disperse.

Some individuals are armed with AK-47 machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, and the mob as a whole is between the Marines and friendlies needing aid.

A rifle squad of about 10 Marines with shotguns and riot shields lined up about 30 feet behind the Gladiator. After an unheeded final warning to disperse, dozens of smoke rounds looped out of the Gladiator, obscuring Camp Smith's helicopter pad. Paintballs splattered silhouette targets, non-lethal weapons fired, and more smoke rounds finished off the job as the Gladiator drove to the drop-off point and unhooked a trailer with supplies.

Sgt. Arnold Den Beste, a military policeman at Kane'ohe Bay, said it took him about five minutes to learn how to drive the vehicle.

"It's a very easy machine to operate," he said. "It's like a video game. You have a joystick and you drive it forward, backward, right or left."

The target cost for the Gladiator is $150,000, which Larry Hennebeck of the Unmanned Ground Vehicles Joint Project Office said is a big departure from million-dollar Army prototype attack systems.

[Hannibal]

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This post has been edited by Hannibal: 02 December 2004 - 04:39 PM

[Hannibal]

For more pics of U.S. "Flying Saucer" unmanned vehicles and surveillance drones...
www.spawar.navy.mil/ robots/images/UAVIdx.html



And...though hardly "Alien" technology, the Nazis first experimented with circular craft, and unmanned saucer-craft in WWII for the same purposes. Surveillance drones, and unmanned bombs.

This post has been edited by Hannibal: 02 December 2004 - 04:50 PM

[Hannibal]

Halliburton's signiture works just as well, I suppose... But where will the Battle Droids go when the oil runs out?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The answers to all questions have already been discovered by the Nazis, DARPA will see to it that all NAZI technology is ressurected...


Listen to the Nazis...Save the World:
Texas A&M University researchers want to resume the study of
Nazi documents about producing gasoline from coal - a process that
they say may alleviate the United States' dependency on foreign oil.

More than 300 rolls of microfilmed documents dealing with the
process are stored in the university's library, but few have been
translated or read.

The documents detail Germany's research and development of 25
synthetic fuel plants from 1936 through 1945. The plants provided 90
percent of the Nazis' aviation fuel and 68 percent of the rest of
its energy needs, the records show.

Vangard Note...

After the war, the records were placed under a 30 year
moratorium from the public to prevent the sudden release of radical
technology which might disrupt American businesses.
*******

Texas A&M researchers began gathering and scrutinizing the
documents for practical application in 1975, but the project was
abandoned five years later.

Arnold Krammer, an A&M history professor, told the `Houston
Chronicle' that the documents also record the U.S. government's
short-lived synthetic fuel program.

Two U.S. plants, built in Louisiana, Mo., using Nazi designs
and technology, turned out 200 to 400 barrels of gasoline daily for
as little as 1.6 cents per gallon from 1949 to 1953, according to
U.S. Bureau of Mines records.

That project was shut down by President Eisenhower's
administration, Mr. Krammer, 49, said. "Without question, it was due
to lobbying by oil companies who didn't want the competition," he
said.

Mr. Krammer and other A&M researchers tracked down Nazi Germany

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war documents in diverse locations that included basements in West
Virginia, the Imperial Museum in London, the National Archives and
the Library of Congress in Washington and German depositories.

Most of the documents were captured and stored after the Allied
victory over the Nazis in 1945. Many of the crates had been stored,
unopened, since the war.

As a result, Mr. Krammer said, Texas A&M is the only
institution with most of the Nazi and U.S. secrets to synthetic
fuels.

Mr. Krammer said he hopes the project will obtain funding to
hire a research team to read, translate and computer index the
documents. He estimated the project would take five years to
complete at a cost of about $200,000 annually.

The chemical process for turning coal into gasoline is known to
about every chemistry graduate student, he said. But it generally
has been considered uneconomical.

He said, however, that Nazi German research might unlock the
keys to making the process cheaper than pumping petroleum.

"It is the details that we have in these documents, details of
where the Germans went wrong, and what worked and what did not
work," he said.

[Hannibal]

The Darpa x-45 Droid Fighter:



www.darpa.mil/j-ucas/ X-45/photos/sixthflight.html

[Hannibal]

By BBC News Online's Mark Ward
The US military is planning to turn soldiers into supermen by fitting them with powered exoskeletons.

The research arm of the US military is spending $50m to develop new technologies that will improve the speed, strength and endurance of soldiers.

The research programme is aiming to give soldiers better protection against enemy fire, the ability to tote bigger guns, run faster, communicate better and help them avoid friendly fire.

The first trials of the technology are expected within the decade.

Power play

This month, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) is expected to sign contracts to kick off the project to develop powered exoskeletons for its ground troops.

The contract signings follow a year of meetings and assessments run by Darpa to find the most promising technologies.

So far, Darpa, the main research and development organisation for the US Department of Defense, has not said which ideas it favours, but it has set out the broad goals of the programme which calls for technologies that can help troops:

carry heavier packs;
march faster over longer distances;
lift heavier objects and use larger weapons;
leap extraordinary heights and/or distances.
Dr Ephrahim Garcia, co-ordinator of the exoskeleton project, said its demands were "formidable" and much of the initial research was speculative to prove concepts rather than develop finished products.

"The controls, the power requirements, the human interface to the machine are all things that we do not know if we can do yet," he said. "There is a huge challenge here."

He added that the exoskeletons must be something that troops can wear and use without thinking rather than something they have to operate.

Suited up

The powered suits will help soldiers carry and use larger weapons and to take heavier loads into battle. Currently, soldiers carry a pack that is no more than a third of their body weight and usually take far less into combat.

Field trials have shown that troops typically dump anything too bulky or heavy to carry for long distances.

The exoskeletons will also have to be almost silent to operate and use fuel very efficiently. And soldiers must be able to use them for at least 24 hours before needing to refuel.

Early work sponsored by Darpa has used pneumatic muscles or deformable magnets to power artificial limbs or suits that soldiers could wear. Trials of a Springwalker system helped its developers travel at speeds in excess of 24 km/h (15 mph).

Stuck in the mud

The exoskeletons are expected to include a sensor web that expands a soldier's field of vision, passes on information about battlefield conditions, using GPS or thermal cameras, helps to co-ordinate groups of other soldiers and lessens the chance of being hit by friendly fire.

Conducting fabrics could be used to swap data between sensors, and wireless networks could pass information between squads or soldiers.

The suits could also act as body armour or have physiological monitoring systems that let officers know the health of the troops under their command.

Field trials of mock-ups of future systems on soldiers running a cross-country course revealed the limitations of some approaches.

Visors on helmets that could double as screens got in the way of rifle sights or made the headgear bulky and unstable. Other sensors or power packs distributed around the body of a soldier got in the way when combatants were crawling and made it harder for them to hide

This post has been edited by Hannibal: 02 December 2004 - 05:08 PM

[Hannibal]

...but hey don't worry, its all just CONSPIRACY THEORY...because Hannibal's crazy.

[Hannibal]

shit...Hannibal's insane...there's no such thing as robots...or nazis...




Perhaps Hannibal should be taken out and shot...

Until then, enjoy your future...

This post has been edited by Hannibal: 02 December 2004 - 06:02 PM

[Jordan]

Hannibal your pictures are stupid. Bush is in no way is a Hitler clone. It was the Iraqi army and insurgents who decided to fight the war in the middle of their towns, so their people can die and be blown up.

It was not the Americans intent to go in there and kill civillians.

[J m HofMarN]

I never thought it was possible for someone to de-rail their own thread...

Hannibal, I think we're universally agreed that this is not a good thing, you might want to tone it down so that we might, you know, comment on this instead of falling into catatonia from reading a thousand and one articles and staring at various pictures.