Title: Blitzed Pdf
Author: Norman Ohler
Published Date: 2018-03-06
Page: 304
“[A] fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich.” — Washington Post
The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. Yet as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new 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.
Thoroughly researched and rivetingly readable, Blitzed throws light on a history that, until now, has remained in the shadows.
“Delightfully nuts.” — The New Yorker
NORMAN OHLER is an award-winning German novelist, screenwriter, and journalist. He is the author of the novels Die Quotenmaschine (the world’s first hypertext novel), Mitte, and Stadt des Goldes (translated into English as Ponte City). He was cowriter of the script for Wim Wenders’s film Palermo Shooting. He lives in Berlin.
A fascinating look at Hitler and the Third Reich This is one of the most fascinating books on the Third Reich and Germany that I have ever read. In light of the crises that exist in contemporary America over drugs and methamphetamines it is amazing to see that Germany was going through the same crises and even more interesting to learn that many of the drugs of abuse that are common in contemporary society were developed by the Nazis.At the center of the story is Dr. Theodor Morell - a relatively obscure and not that well credentialed doctor - who became Hitler's drug dealer/supplier. Through extensive archival research, Norman Ohler was able to discover records that show Hitler's extensive drug use/abuse and track Morell's records of the kinds of drugs that he was giving Hitler. With the drugs that Morell was giving Hitler, its amazing that he even survived as long as he did.Parallel to the story of Hitler's drug use, Ohler also shows how the Nazis used drugs to enhance the performance of soldiers. Sleep was the enemy of the soldier in battle. With drugs, the Nazis sought to win that battle and passed out "uppers" to troops on a massive scale."The fact was that between the autumn of 1941, when (Hitler) started being given hormone and steroid injections, and the second half of 1944, when first the cocaine and the above all the Eudodal kicked, Hitler hardly enjoyed a sober day." Pharmacology ruled and influenced Hitler and the outcome of the war.This book is a real page turner that gives a fascinating look into the life of Adolph Hitler and the Third Reich. Throughout the book, one wonders if history would have been different if this unknown doctor had not used his drugs on Hitler. How many lives could have been saved? What Ohler does not go into is the effect that the use of these drugs had on the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and members of the German population that used these drugs, which were available without a prescription and were widely available during much of the war. Where there long term physiological and physiological effects on those persons? That's a topic for another book and further research but it raises interesting questions.Drug Abuse Has Serious Consequences This book covers not only the drug use by Hitler, but by the entire Germanic people from the perid after the Kaiser throw in the towel and ran to Holland. This marked the end amd loss of first war by Prussia. The amounts of amphetamins, morphine, and heroin idustrially produced were in the millions. Soldiers abused it, Generals abused it, even mothers, fathers, and kids use it. Contrary to criticism, the writer does not condone the atrocities comitted under the Third Reich. He simply chronicles the drug abuse that developed, the maladies habitual users suffered: rages, paranoia, nervous breakdown (one official shot himself) , and muscle skeletal pains.Yes, any war is hell, but if add millions of tablets of Prvatin(amphetamine) you have chaos. Great read.Your view of WWII will be changed. I first learned of this book when the author was interviewed on NPR/Fresh Air. I could not believe what I was hearing. But, the actual book is as advertised...it will challenge and in my case, change forever your ideas about WWII. Who knew? Meth? been around forever. Hitler zonked and pumped out of his mind for years by his personal physician? The entire German war machine on drugs? Dunkirk evacuation works because Hitler issued stop order to the army from attacking the trapped allied forces.Just read it. Too many things to include in a review.
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