Podargus
Reality Bites
I haven't read the book. Just saw the write up and thought I'd share.
Pervitin: Nazi Germany’s drug of choice.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...f-hitler-nazi-drug-abuse-interview?CMP=twt_gu
Pervitin: Nazi Germany’s drug of choice.
The book in question is The Total Rush– or, to use its superior English title, Blitzed – which reveals the astonishing and hitherto largely untold story of the Third Reich’s relationship with drugs, including cocaine, heroin, morphine and, above all, methamphetamines (aka crystal meth), and of their effect not only on Hitler’s final days – the Führer, by Ohler’s account, was an absolute junkie with ruined veins by the time he retreated to the last of his bunkers – but on the Wehrmacht’s successful invasion of France in 1940. Published in Germany last year, where it became a bestseller, it has since been translated into 18 languages, a fact that delights Ohler, but also amazes him.
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I guess drugs weren’t a priority for the historians,” he says. “A crazy guy like me had to come along.” Still, crazy or not, he has done a remarkable job. If Blitzed is gripping, it is also convincing. Ian Kershaw, the British historian who is probably the world’s leading authority on Hitler and Nazi Germany, has described it as “a serious piece of scholarship”.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...f-hitler-nazi-drug-abuse-interview?CMP=twt_gu
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