TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ohler,Norman
AU  - Whiteside,Shaun
TI  - Blitzed: drugs in the third reich 
SN  - 1328915344
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Mariner Books
KW  - Hitler, Adolf,
KW  - Nazis
KW  - Drug use
KW  - Drugs
KW  - Germany
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Pharmaceutical industry
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
N1  - Translated from the German; Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-271) and index; Methamphetamine, the Volksdroge (1933-1938) -- Sieg High! (1939-1941) -- High Hitler : Patient A and his personal physician (1941-1944) -- The wonder drug (1944-1945)
N2  - 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
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