Bibliograph

Blitzed, drugs in the third reich, Norman Ohler ; translated by Shaun Whiteside

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Label

Blitzed, drugs in the third reich, Norman Ohler ; translated by Shaun Whiteside

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-271) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Blitzed

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

994319817

Responsibility statement

Norman Ohler ; translated by Shaun Whiteside

Sub title

drugs in the third reich

Summary

The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. Yet as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs: cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, which were consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to German soldiers. In fact, troops were encouraged, and in some cases ordered, to take rations of a form of crystal meth--the elevated energy and feelings of invincibility associated with the high even help to account for the breakneck invasion that sealed the fall of France in 1940, as well as other German military victories. Hitler himself became increasingly dependent on injections of a cocktail of drugs--ultimately including Eukodal, a cousin of heroin--administered by his personal doctor. Thoroughly researched and rivetingly readable, Blitzed throws light on a history that, until now, has remained in the shadows

Table Of Contents

Methamphetamine, the Volksdroge (1933-1938) -- Sieg High! (1939-1941) -- High Hitler : Patient A and his personal physician (1941-1944) -- The wonder drug (1944-1945)

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