Blitzed, drugs in the Third Reich, Norman Ohler ; translated by Shaun Whiteside
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Blitzed, drugs in the Third Reich, Norman Ohler ; translated by Shaun Whiteside
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eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-271) and index (pages 274-292)
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
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Blitzed
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bibliography
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965781501
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Norman Ohler ; translated by Shaun Whiteside
Sub title
drugs in the Third Reich
Summary
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--Back cover
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Drugs in the Third Reich
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- Drugs -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Soldiers + Drug use -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Industrie pharmaceutique -- Allemagne -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Médicaments -- Allemagne -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Drittes Reich
- Drogenkonsum
- BMBF-Statusseminar
- Nazis + Drug use
- Pharmaceutical industry -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Informational works
- Geschichte 1933-1945
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Drug use
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Allemagne
- Documents d'information
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- Drugs -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Soldiers + Drug use -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Industrie pharmaceutique -- Allemagne -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Médicaments -- Allemagne -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Drittes Reich
- Drogenkonsum
- BMBF-Statusseminar
- Nazis + Drug use
- Pharmaceutical industry -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Informational works
- Geschichte 1933-1945
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Drug use
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Allemagne
- Documents d'information
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- Author1
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