Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

Author:   Norman Ohler ,  Shaun Whiteside
Publisher:   Penguin Books Ltd
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9780141983165


Pages:   368
Publication Date:   04 May 2017
Format:   Paperback
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The sensational account of the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich - from Hitler and his entourage to ordinary troops 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. Blitzed forms a crucial missing piece of the story of WW2.

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Author:   Norman Ohler ,  Shaun Whiteside
Publisher:   Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:   Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.269kg
ISBN:  

9780141983165


ISBN 10:   0141983167
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   04 May 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

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German writer Norman Ohler's astonishing account of methamphetamine addiction in the Third Reich changes what we know about the second world war .. Blitzed looks set to reframe the way certain aspects of the Third Reich will be viewed in the future -- Rachel Cooke Guardian A huge contribution... remarkable -- Antony Beevor BBC RADIO 4 Blitzed is making me rethink everything I've ever seen and read about WWII. It emotionally and technically makes sense of previously unexplainable aspects of that war. It makes me want to revisit other books on it with the hindsight of knowing these newly exposed truths. It was terrific! -- Douglas Coupland The picture he paints is both a powerful and an extreme one... gripping reading -- Anna Katharina Schaffner Times Literary Supplement Remarkable... energetic... retells the history of the war through the prism of the pill... it has an uncanny ability to disturb -- Roger Boyes The Times Very good and extremely interesting - a serious piece of scholarship very well-researched -- Ian Kershaw author of Hitler and To Hell and Back The most brilliant and fascinating book I have read in my entire life -- Dan Snow Norman Ohler has succeeded in a remarkable scoop, by studying in detail the notebooks of Hitler's personal doctor and demonstrating that Hitler was a far worse junkie than we had ever imagined. He has also unearthed the way that the German army did not march on its stomach, but on methamphetamine. The supposedly clean-living Nazis, who accused the Jews of corrupting German youth, were the real pushers. The book, written with delightful irony, is an eye-opener. -- Antony Beevor Guardian This book transforms the overall picture Hans Mommsen Sensational Daily Mail Bursting with interesting facts Vice Norman Ohler has written an illuminating account of the gobsmacking extent to which military strategy in the Third Reich relied on drugs. ... What you'll learn: Never trust a coked-up Nazi ShortList A fascinating, most extraordinary revelation BBC World News The Nazis were all on drugs! So far, so sensationalist but German writer Norman Ohler's absorbing new non-fiction book, Blitzed, makes the convincing argument that the Nazis' use of chemical stimulants... played a crucial role in the successes, and failures, of the Third Reich Esquire An audacious, compelling read Stern Enthralling Mitteldeutsche Zeitung A revelatory work that considers Hitler's career in a new light. 'Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich' is that rare sort of book whose remarkable insight focuses on a subject that's been overlooked, even disregarded by historians The San Francisco Chronicle Blitzed is a fascinating read that provides a new facet to our understanding of the Third Reich Buzzfeed It's as breezy and darkly humorous as its title. But don't be fooled by the gallows humor of chapter names like 'Sieg High' and 'High Hitler': This is a serious and original work of scholarship that dropped jaws around Europe when it was published there last year Mashable A juicier story would be hard to find -- The Week Delightfully nuts, in a 'Gravity's Rainbow' kind of way. -- The New Yorker Transforming meticulous research into compelling prose, Ohler delves into the little-known history of drug use in Nazi Germany Entertainment Weekly [A] fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich The Washington Post This heavily researched nonfiction book by a German journalist reports that the drug was widely taken by soldiers, all the way up the ranks to Hitler himself, who received injections of a drug cocktail that also included an opioid Newsday


German writer Norman Ohler's astonishing account of methamphetamine addiction in the Third Reich changes what we know about the second world war .. Blitzed looks set to reframe the way certain aspects of the Third Reich will be viewed in the future. But Ohler's thesis doesn't, of course, make National Socialism any more fathomable, and for him, perhaps, there is an element of disappointment in this, for he has been seeking to understand it ever since he was a boy -- Rachel Cooke Observer A huge contribution ... remarkable -- Antony Beevor Very good and extremely interesting - a serious piece of scholarship very well-researched -- Ian Kershaw author of Hitler and To Hell and Back An audacious, compelling read Stern This book transforms the overall picture Hans Mommsen Enthralling Mitteldeutsche Zeitung Sensational Daily Mail Bursting with interesting facts Vice


A huge contribution ... remarkable -- Antony Beevor Very good and extremely interesting - a serious piece of scholarship very well-researched -- Ian Kershaw author of Hitler and To Hell and Back An audacious, compelling read Stern This book transforms the overall picture Hans Mommsen Enthralling Mitteldeutsche Zeitung Sensational Daily Mail Bursting with interesting facts Vice


Author Information

Norman Ohler was born in Zweibr cken in 1970. He is the author of three novels, Die Quotenmaschine (the world's first hypertext novel), Mitte and Stadt des Goldes as well as two novellas. He was co-writer of the script for Wim Wenders' film Palermo Shooting. He researched Blitzed in numerous archives across Germany and the United States. Shaun Whiteside has translated widely in both French and German, including Sybille Steinbacher's Auschwitz- A History.

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