Blitzed : : Drugs in the Third Reich

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Call Number: 362.299 Oh, Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / World War II / Ohler, Norman
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Traverwood Branch

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Translated from the German.
Methamphetamine, the Volksdroge (1933/1938) -- Sieg high! (1939/1941) -- High Hitler: Patient A and his personal physician (1941/1944) -- The wonder drug (1944/1945) -- Acknowledgments.
"The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World War II, Germany was a pharmaceutical powerhouse, and companies such as Merck and Bayer cooked up cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, to be consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to millions of German soldiers. In fact, troops regularly took rations of a form of crystal meth--the elevated energy and feelings of invincibility associated with the high even help to explain certain German military victories. Drugs seeped all the way up to the Nazi high command and, especially, to Hitler himself. Over the course of the war, Hitler became increasingly dependent on injections of a cocktail of drugs--including a form of heroin--administered by his personal doctor. While drugs alone cannot explain the Nazis' toxic racial theories or the events of World War II, Ohler's investigation makes an overwhelming case that, if drugs are not taken into account, our understanding of the Third Reich is fundamentally incomplete" -- provided by publisher.

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Intense submitted by kat.pflasterer on August 25, 2017, 8:58am This book was equal parts fascinating and disturbing. On one level it is interesting to learn about times when drugs that are now illegal, were sold and used in an unregulated manner. On another it is disturbing to realize most soldiers were high as kites and unaware of the consequences of continual drug use. This book was hard to put down, is nearly impossible to forget, and is definitely not a light, fun, summer read. But it provides an insight into World War II history that is often overlooked.

Blitzed submitted by emwinter on August 19, 2022, 2:58pm Fascinating and informative read!