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Title: Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
Author: OHLER NORMAN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/05/2017
Imprint: PENGUIN BOOKS
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
\”The Nazis styled 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. Blitzedforms a crucial missing piece of the story of WW2.\”
ISBN: 9780141983165
Pages: 368