There's one way to draw the ire of a German sports enthusiast....talk down on the 1954 World Cup victory by Germany.This is the Holy Grail for most Germans. This 3-2 victory was a mass turning point that really spun Germany into an positive attitude for the next ten years.
Any negative talk over the team or their accomplishment....usually turns you into an immediate target.
Today...we finally had a researcher who came along and suggested that the players in the 1954 World Cup...were injected with a stimulant (invented from WW II). It's original purpose was for pilots, but made it's way down to tank crews by the end of the war. The drug name? Pervitin. But you'd know it by methamphetamine.
It's a drug that typically you'd use for increasing your attention and give you a higher rate of aggression. In rationed doses, and under a controlled atmosphere, it might be ok.
Doping in 1954? I'm guessing this story will not make the German public happy. It is a theory right now...mostly because there are no urine samples around that you could test. Proving this to be a fact will be next to impossible.
A historical need to stage this investigation and publish? This is the hard part to survey. I'm guessing that ninety-nine percent of the German population would prefer this kind of thing never gets investigated. Folks will sit around the pubs this weekend....discussing this....and feel kinda upset. Their legend has been messed with, and they can't readily fight the story.
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