Blitzed : drugs in Nazi Germany / Norman Ohler ; translated by Shaun Whiteside.
Language: English Original language: German Publication details: London : Penguin Books, 2017.Description: 360 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780141983165 (paperback)
- Drugs in Nazi Germany
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Drug use
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945
- World War (1939-1945)
- 1900-1999
- Soldiers -- Drug use -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Drugs of abuse -- Germany
- Drugs -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Nazis - Drug use
- Drug abuse - Germany - History - 20th century
- World War II, 1939-1945 - Germany
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 - Drug use
- Pharmaceutical industry -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Nazis
- Drugs of abuse
- World War, 1939-1945
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Drug use
- Drug abuse -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany
- Nazis -- Drug use
- Drug abuse
- Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
- Germany
- 362.29094309044 23
- HV5840.G3 O3513
- 362.29094309044
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 362.29 OHL | Available | 068048 |
Translated from the German.
English translation first published in 2016.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1.Methamphetamine, the Volksdroge (1933--1938) -- 2.Sieg High!(1939--1941) -- 3.High Hitler: Patient A and His Personal Physician (1941--1944) -- 4.The Wonder Drug (1944--1945).
The Nazis presented 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.
Translated from the German.