Preferred Shelf Number:
362.2995 OHL
First Title value, for Searching:
Blitzed : drugs in the Third Reich
First Author value, for Searching:
Ohler, Norman, author.
ISBN:
9781328663795
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Uniform Title:
Totale Rausch. English
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Physical Description:
292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
General Note:
Translation of: Der totale Rausch : Drogen im Dritten Reich.
Contents:
Methamphetamine, the Volksdroge (1933-1938) -- Sieg high! (1939-1941) -- High Hitler: Patient A and his personal physician (1941-1944) -- The wonder drug (1944-1945)
Abstract:
"The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler [posits] in this ... new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World War II, Germany was a pharmaceutical powerhouse, and companies such as Merck and Bayer cooked up cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, to be consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to millions of German soldiers. In fact, troops regularly took rations of a form of crystal meth--the elevated energy and feelings of invincibility associated with the high [may] even help to explain certain German military victories"--Amazon.com.
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