Blitzed : drugs in Nazi Germany / Norman Ohler ; translated by Shaun Whiteside.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ohler, Norman, author.

Contributor:

Whiteside, Shaun, translator.

Standardized Title:

Totale Rausch. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Drug use.

Hitler, Adolf.

Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.

Nazis--Drug use.

Nazis.

Drug abuse--Germany--History--20th century.

Drug abuse.

History.

Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Germany.

Politics and government.

Drugs of abuse.

Physical Description:

360 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

regular print

Place of Publication:

[United Kingdom] : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2016.

Summary:

"The Nazis presented themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy. Yet, as Norman Ohler's gripping bestseller reveals, the entire Third Reich was permeated with drugs: cocaine, heroin, morphine and, most of all, methamphetamines, or crystal meth, used by everyone from factory workers to housewives, and crucial to troops' resilience - even partly explaining German victory in 1940. The promiscuous use of drugs at the very highest levels also impaired and confused decision-making, with Hitler and his entourage taking refuge in potentially lethal cocktails of stimulants administered by the physician Dr Morell as the war turned against Germany. While drugs cannot on their own explain the events of the Second World War or its outcome, Ohler shows, they change our understanding of it. Blitzed forms a crucial missing piece of the story." --book jacket.

Contents:

1. Methamphetamine, the Volksdroge (1933-1938)

2. Sieg high! (1939-1941)

3. High Hitler: Patient A and his personal physician (1941-1944)

4. The wonder drug (1944-1945).

Notes:

First published in German as: Totale Rausch : Drogen im Dritten Reich. Köln : Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0241256992

9780241256992

OCLC:

941875127

Publisher Number:

99969120176

Online:

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