Did the Nazi's had a supersoldier program?

[Zixinus]

I can't really stress more to this then what's already in the topic's name. This is basically something for my novel and I don't really know or care that much for the stupidities and pointless efforts of the Nazi war research machine, so I'd rather stick my neck out and ask.

I recall once reading something about Nazi's trying to old mental superpowers bullshit routine. Most likely to stay inside the labs instead of being sent to the front lines. Anyway, it was about looking into about training soldiers for themselves to be the weapon, taking control over enemy soldiers and knowing what they are thinking and crap like that.

Was there such a thing? I am pretty sure that the USSR did try to do a familiar routine with a guy experimenting on dogs. So did the CIA did try to use ESP or something with a guy that won't shut up about it to this day.

I know there were some pretty insane plans laid out in front of Hitler that he approved and that such an idea might actually appeal to him. Was there such a program, even if only for show?

[Sidewinder]

IIRC, the CIA's ESP program was a decoy to draw the KGB and GRU's attention away from a program to develop an over-the-horizon radar for tracking Soviet missiles.

As for the Nazi supersoldier project, I looked up anabolic steroids on Wikipedia and found this:

During the Second World War, German scientists synthesized other anabolic steroids, and experimented on concentration camp inmates and prisoners of war in an attempt to treat chronic wasting.[6] They also experimented on German soldiers, hoping to increase their aggression. Adolf Hitler himself, according to his physician, was injected with testosterone derivatives to treat various ailments.[11]

Hope that helps.

[K. A. Pital]

Was there such a thing?

The only more or less documented chemical-mental conditioning program is the USA's MKULTRA. However, Germany did have "superhuman" breeding programs (Lebensborn) and what Sidewinder said, steroids.

Mostly hormonal and chemical ways to "increase" a human's battle-worthiness were tried which actually are continued by various militaries to this day, IIRC.

[PeZook]

Dr. Mengele did experiments on concentration camp inmated in order to discover the optimum way to breed Aryan children en masse.

This is the closest thing I can quote off the top of my head.

[Straha]

Was there such a thing? I am pretty sure that the USSR did try to do a familiar routine with a guy experimenting on dogs. So did the CIA did try to use ESP or something with a guy that won't shut up about it to this day.

See if you can find "The Men Who Stare at Goats". It's a very amusing read and it's got some very interesting stories about the Army and the CIA.

[Kanastrous]

The German and Japanese (and probably other armies) rolled on speed. Enough amphetamines make a super-soldier being the principle, I guess. Apparently contributes to the likelihood of atrocities and errors, too.

[Zixinus]

Hope that helps.

Actually it does. It's precisely something what I wanted to have.

A guy that once worked along with the Nazis and had promising results and his own ideas that revolved around brain chemistry. He escaped to the USA and was captured by a secret group there that used his knowledge. He is given some wanktastic stuff to work with, though there are less human experiments (the group in question doesn't just believe "the end justifies the means" but its their fucking motto) and other stuff. In the end, he is able to make serums and things that amplify human body performance yet "stabilise" brain chemistry a bit. The result is a bit grouchy human whom has significantly lowered sensations of terror, pain, love and pleasure.

[Shroom Man 777]

There's tabloid bullshit about Stalin trying to crossbreed apemen.

As for Nazi related nonsense, I'd like to pitch in this bit of weirdness:

THEOZOOLOGY

The author undertook a comparative survey of ancient Near Eastern cultures, in which he detected evidence from iconography and literature which seemed to point to the continued survival, into early historical times, of hominid ape-men similar to the dwarfish Neanderthal men known from fossil remains in Europe, or the Pithecanthropus (now called Homo erectus) from Java. Furthermore, Lanz systematically analysed the Old Testament in the light of his hypothesis, identifying and interpreting coded references to the ape-men which substantiated an illicit practice of interbreeding between humans and "lower" species in antiquity.

In 1905 he expanded these researches into a fundamental statement of doctrine titled Theozoologie oder die Kunde von den Sodoms-Äfflingen und dem Götter-Elektron (Theozoology or the Science of the Sodomite-Apelings and the Divine Electron). He claimed that “Aryan” peoples originated from interstellar deities (termed Theozoa) who bred by electricity

while “lower” races were a result of interbreeding between humans and ape-men (or Anthropozoa). The effects of racial crossing caused the atrophy of paranormal powers inherited from the gods, but these could be restored by the selective breeding of pure Aryan lineages. The book relied on somewhat lurid sexual imagery, decrying the abuse of white women by ethnically inferior but sexually active men. Thus, Lanz advocated mass castration of racially “apelike” or otherwise “inferior” males.

How this is related to the topic at hand, I don't know.

Maybe you could have your Nazi Supersoldier program be a response to fears that the Jews might be crossbreeding Gorilla-Rabbis or something.

[Kanastrous]

And every year at Purim time, they read the Gorilla Megilla?

[Zixinus]

Maybe you could have your Nazi Supersoldier program be a response to fears that the Jews might be crossbreeding Gorilla-Rabbis or something.

They aren't Nazi supersoldiers. Hell, they aren't Nazi. They're Men in Black actually and they couldn't care less about one's race. Things are more behind the shadows on this one.

[PainRack]

There's tabloid bullshit about Stalin trying to crossbreed apemen.

As for Nazi related nonsense, I'd like to pitch in this bit of weirdness:

THEOZOOLOGY

The author undertook a comparative survey of ancient Near Eastern cultures, in which he detected evidence from iconography and literature which seemed to point to the continued survival, into early historical times, of hominid ape-men similar to the dwarfish Neanderthal men known from fossil remains in Europe, or the Pithecanthropus (now called Homo erectus) from Java. Furthermore, Lanz systematically analysed the Old Testament in the light of his hypothesis, identifying and interpreting coded references to the ape-men which substantiated an illicit practice of interbreeding between humans and "lower" species in antiquity.

In 1905 he expanded these researches into a fundamental statement of doctrine titled Theozoologie oder die Kunde von den Sodoms-Äfflingen und dem Götter-Elektron (Theozoology or the Science of the Sodomite-Apelings and the Divine Electron). He claimed that “Aryan” peoples originated from interstellar deities (termed Theozoa) who bred by electricity

while “lower” races were a result of interbreeding between humans and ape-men (or Anthropozoa). The effects of racial crossing caused the atrophy of paranormal powers inherited from the gods, but these could be restored by the selective breeding of pure Aryan lineages. The book relied on somewhat lurid sexual imagery, decrying the abuse of white women by ethnically inferior but sexually active men. Thus, Lanz advocated mass castration of racially “apelike” or otherwise “inferior” males.

How this is related to the topic at hand, I don't know.

Maybe you could have your Nazi Supersoldier program be a response to fears that the Jews might be crossbreeding Gorilla-Rabbis or something.

And to add more fuel to the fire, General Yamashita in his speeches about why Japan will defeat the European soldiers was because the Japanese were descended from gos whereas the Europeans were descended from apes.

[Sidewinder]

And to add more fuel to the fire, General Yamashita in his speeches about why Japan will defeat the European soldiers was because the Japanese were descended from gos whereas the Europeans were descended from apes.

Even Robert E. Howard knew better than to claim Aryans were superior because of supposed divine descent. (Then again, he celebrated barbarism, of being more beast than man.)