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

Nā:

Ohler, Norman [author.]

Kaituhi:

Whiteside, Shaun [translator.]

Momo rauemi: Text

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780141983165

Uniform titles:

Totale Rausch. English.

Ngā marau:

DDC classification:

943.086 23
362.29094309044 23

Summary: The Nazis styled themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy. Yet the entire Third Reich was permeated with drugs, cocaine, heroin, morphine and, most of all, methamphetamines, 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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Momo tuemi	Tauwāhi onāianei	Kohinga	Tau karanga	Tūnga	Rā oti	Waeherepae	Ngā puringa tuemi
Nonfiction	Waverley LibraryPlus Nonfiction	Nonfiction	943.086 (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below))	Wātea		I2208697

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Originally published in German as "Totale Rausch": Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2015. First published in English: Allen Lane, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Nazis styled themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy. Yet the entire Third Reich was permeated with drugs, cocaine, heroin, morphine and, most of all, methamphetamines, 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.

Translated from the German.

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