
Blitzed
Drugs in the Third Reich
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Stefan Rudnicki
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. Carefully researched and rivetingly listenable, Blitzed throws surprising light on a history that, until now, has remained in the shadows.
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Fantastic and not really a surprise.
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I am still stunned by the information. Great read!!
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having consumed undreds of hours of listening & hard copy reading on the vast category of WWII, including The Rise & Fall of the 3rd Reich, I can knowledgeably say this book is key to tying together the many parts of the huge area of study/interest; I was aware of questionable "medical" management of Hitler, & of Goering's regular use of drugs for legitimate reasons gone awry, but had NO idea of the massive routine production, experimentation, & implementation of it as a strategy for dealing with reality/tasks before the German civilian population, the military, & high leadership, all of it based on detailed documentation; it adds a whole new level of understanding to the course of things; the author does an excellent job of tying in what was going on with the drug culture to what was going on with the war & various individuals, giving tidbits, where available, about the post war lives of those who survived
necessary element for serious WWII/Nazi student
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Everything you didn’t know you needed about the Third Reich & addictions
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