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Blitzed : drugs in Nazi Germany

Title: Blitzed : drugs in Nazi Germany / Norman Ohler ; translated by Shaun Whiteside.
Author: Ohler, Norman
Publication: [United Kingdom] : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2016.
Supplementary Content: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Additional Authors

Whiteside, Shaun

Description

360 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

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."

Uniform Title

Totale Rausch. English

Alternative Title

Totale Rausch.

Subject

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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).

Call Number

JFD 17-76

ISBN

0241256992
9780241256992

OCLC

941875127

Author

Ohler, Norman, author.

Title

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

Publisher

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

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Indexed Term

(lcsh)Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.

(fast)Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945

(fast)1933-1945

(lcsh)Nazis.

(lcsh)Drugs of abuse.

(fast)Drugs of abuse

(fast)Nazis

(fast)Politics and government

(lcsh)Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.

(fast)Germany

Added Author

Whiteside, Shaun, translator.

Research Call Number

JFD 17-76

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