- Summary
- The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. Yet as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping 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--Back cover.
- Uniform Title
- Totale Rausch. English
- Variant Title
- Drugs in the Third Reich
- Format
- Manuscript language material
- Author/Creator
- Ohler, Norman, author.
- Published
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017]
©2015
- Locale
- Germany
Allemagne
Europe
- Edition
- First U.S. edition
- Contents
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Methamphetamine, the Volksdroge (1933/1938)
Sieg high! (1939/1941)
High Hitler : Patient A and his personal physician (1941/1944)
Wonder drug (1944/1945).
- Other Authors/Editors
- Whiteside, Shaun, translator.
- Notes
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Translated from the German.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-271) and index (pages 274-292).
Methamphetamine, the Volksdroge (1933/1938) -- Sieg high! (1939/1941) -- High Hitler : Patient A and his personal physician (1941/1944) -- Wonder drug (1944/1945).
