Where is your proof that Steroids were not used during WW2?
where is your proof that they were?
To the best of my knowledge, the rumor that steroids were in use during ww2 stems from typically exaggerated tales about nazis trying to create super soldiers. That it was a german chemist who first isolated testosterone doesn't help the runaway imaginations of some people, and of course the very real use of amphetamines.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09523367.2014.884563?src=recsys&journalCode=fhsp20in short; at least as far as nazis were concerned, no there is no evidence they ever used testosterone or any other anabolic steroid. People repeating something over and over again for decades =/= fact. Hitler's physician gave him a testes extract from pulverized bull testes. If testosterone esters (the only reliable form) were so readily available as to be the backbone of a drug program for soldiers, then why on earth would his physician waste time with what is effectively homeopathy in comparison? It stands to reason this was never anything more than ridiculous fantasy, the kind that was commonly engaged in post-war where a little truth is stretched into a ridiculous lie to make the nazis seem even more extreme (as if what they actually did wasnt enough)
Alleged steroid use in the treatment of malnourished and poor condition POWs in hospitals is possible and seems much more likely than the eye rolling, masturbatory teenage fantasy about super soldiers
but again seems to lack any solid reference.
