LEADER 00000pam 2200421 i 4500 003 DLC 005 20170303130239.0 008 161207r20172016maua b 001 0 eng 010 2016056346 020 9781328663795 (hardcover) 040 DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dNjBwBT|dUtOrBLW 041 1 eng|hger 042 pcc 043 e-gx--- 092 362.2995094|bOHL 100 1 Ohler, Norman,|eauthor. 245 10 Blitzed :|bdrugs in the Third Reich /|cNorman Ohler ; translated by Shaun Whiteside. 250 First U.S. edition. 264 1 Boston :|bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt,|c2017. 264 4 |c©2015 300 292 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 500 Translated from the German. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-271) and index. 520 The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping 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 even help to explain certain German military victories. Drugs seeped all the way up to the Nazi high command and, especially, to Hitler himself. Over the course of the war, Hitler became increasingly dependent on injections of a cocktail of drugs—including a form of heroin—administered by his personal doctor. While drugs alone cannot explain the Nazis’ toxic racial theories or the events of World War II , Ohler’s investigation makes an overwhelming case that, if drugs are not taken into account, our understanding of the Third Reich is fundamentally incomplete. 600 10 Hitler, Adolf,|d1889-1945|xDrug use. 650 0 Nazis|xDrug use. 650 0 Drugs|zGermany|xHistory|y20th century. 650 0 Pharmaceutical industry|zGermany|xHistory|y20th century. 650 0 Soldiers|xDrug use|zGermany|xHistory|y20th century. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945|zGermany. 700 1 Whiteside, Shaun,|etranslator. 730 0 Totale Rausch.|lEnglish. 775 08 |iReproduction of (manifestation):|aOhler, Norman. |tBlitzed|dLondon : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2016|z9780241256992.
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