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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich -- Norman Ohler - Paperback

Description: A New York Times bestseller, Norman Ohler's Blitzed is a fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich" (Washington Post). The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. Yet as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping 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 w Book and Mortar Record Store Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich -- Norman Ohler A New York Times bestseller, Norman Ohler's Blitzed is a fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich" (Washington Post). The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. Yet as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping 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. "Delightfully nuts."--The New Yorker Author: Norman Ohler Publisher: Mariner Books Published: 03/06/2018 Pages: 304 Binding Type: Paperback Weight: 0.61lbs Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.90d ISBN: 9781328915344 About the Author NORMAN OHLER is an award-winning German novelist, screenwriter, and journalist. He spent five years researching Blitzed in numerous archives in Germany and the United States, and spoke to eyewitnesses, military historians, and doctors.

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Label: Mariner Books

Artist: Ohler, Norman

Album: Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

Book Title: Blitzed : Drugs in the Third Reich

Number of Pages: 304 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: HarperCollins

Item Height: 0.8 in

Topic: Europe / Germany, Europe / Eastern, Military / World War II, Presidents & Heads of State, Psychopathology / Addiction

Publication Year: 2018

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Psychology, History

Item Weight: 7.9 Oz

Author: Norman Ohler

Item Length: 8 in

Item Width: 5.3 in

Format: Trade Paperback

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