Download Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany PDF EPUB
Author: Norman Ohler
Pages: 368
Size: 3.076,18 Kb
Publication Date: 2013
Category: World War II
GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE ENTIRE YEAR 2016 ‘The most outstanding and fascinating book I’ve read in my own entire existence’ Dan Snow ‘Blitzed is building me rethink everything I’ve ever seen and find out about WWII. The promiscuous usage of drugs at the highest amounts also impaired and puzzled decision-producing, with Hitler and his entourage acquiring refuge in possibly lethal cocktails of stimulants administered by the doctor Dr Morell as the battle turned against Germany. exceptional’ Antony Beevor, BBC RADIO 4 ‘Extremely interesting . terrific!’ Douglas Coupland ‘A large contribution…. However, as Norman Ohler’s gripping bestseller reveals, the complete Third Reich was permeated with medications: cocaine, heroin, morphine and, primarily, methamphetamines, or crystal meth, utilized by everyone from factory employees to housewives, and essential to troops’ resilience - also partly explaining German success in 1940.. a significant piece of scholarship, perfectly researched’ Ian Kershaw The sensational German bestseller on the overpowering role of drug-acquiring in the 3rd Reich, from Hitler to housewives. The Nazis offered themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy… While medicines cannot by themselves explain the occasions of the next World Battle or its end result, Ohler shows, they modification our knowledge of it. Blitzed forms an essential missing little bit of the story.