Blitzed e-bog
104,11 DKK
(inkl. moms 130,14 DKK)
A New York Times bestseller, Norman Ohler's Blitzed is a "e;fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich"e; (Washington Post). 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 ...
E-bog
104,11 DKK
Forlag
Mariner Books
Udgivet
7 marts 2017
Længde
304 sider
Genrer
1DFG
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781328664099
A New York Times bestseller, Norman Ohler's Blitzed is a "e;fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich"e; (Washington Post). 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 meththe 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 drugsultimately including Eukodal, a cousin of heroinadministered by his personal doctor. Thoroughly researched and rivetingly readable, Blitzed throws light on a history that, until now, has remained in the shadows. "e;Delightfully nuts."e;The New Yorker