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Blitzed : drugs in Nazi Germany by Hitler, Adolf;Ohler, Norman;Whiteside, Shaun is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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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.;A fast-paced narrative that discovers a surprising perspective on World War II: Nazi Germany's all-consuming reliance on drugs 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 doc

Who reads Blitzed : drugs in Nazi Germany?

Author

Hitler, Adolf;Ohler, Norman;Whiteside, Shaun

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd;Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781328664099

Category

history

Subjects

Medical, Western, Social Science

Rating

4.02 / 5 (65 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14