Bibliograph

Blitzed, drugs in the Third Reich, Norman Ohler ; translated by Shaun Whiteside

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Blitzed, drugs in the Third Reich, Norman Ohler ; translated by Shaun Whiteside

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and indexBibliographyPhoto Credits; Index; Back Flap; Back Cover; Spine

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Blitzed

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

973185916

Responsibility statement

Norman Ohler ; translated by Shaun Whiteside

Sub title

drugs in the Third Reich

Summary

A fast-paced, highly original history that uncovers the full extent of drug use in Nazi Germany-from Hitler's all-consuming reliance on a slew of substances, to the drugs that permeated the regime and played an integral role in Germany's military performance and ultimate downfall in World War II

Table Of Contents

Front Cover; Front Flap; Front Matter; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Epigraph; Contents; 1. Methamphetamine, the Volksdroge (1933-1938); Breaking Bad: The Drug Lab of the Reich; Prologue in the Nineteenth Century: The Father of All Drugs; Germany, the Global Dealer; The Chemical Twenties; Switching Power Means Switching Substances; Anti-Drug Policy as Anti-Semitic Policy; The Celebrity Doctor of Kurfürstendamm; Injection Cocktail for Patient A; Volkswagen -- Volksdrogen; 2. Sieg High! (1939-1941); Looking for Clues at the Military Archive; The German Army Discovers a German DrugFrom Brown Bread to Brain FoodRobots; Burnout; Modern Times; Time Is War; "Think Big"60; Time Is Meth; The Crystal Fox; Hitler Doesn't Understand the Blitzkrieg; The Miracle of Dunkirk -- A Pharmacological Interpretation; The Dealer for the Wehrmacht; War and Vitamins; Flying High: The Battle of Britain; Just What the World Was Waiting For; 3. High Hitler: Patient A and His Personal Physician (1941-1944); Onsite Visit: National Archives, Washington, DC; The Bunker Mentality; Eastern Rush; A Former Medical Officer Speaks; Planet "Werwolf"; Slaughterhouse Ukraine"X" and the Total Loss of RealityTaking Eukodal; One Reich, One Dealer; Patient B; Operation Valkyrie and Its Pharmacological Consequences; At Last, Cocaine!; Speedball; The Doctors' War; Self-Obliteration; The Superbunker; Track Marks; The Question of Guilt; 4. The Wonder Drug (1944-1945); Onsite Visit: Medical Academy of the Bundeswehr, Munich; The Quest for the Miracle Drug; Business Trip to the Concentration Camp; Pill Patrol; Going Under; Brainwashing; Twilight of the Drugs; Last Exit Bunker; The Dismissal; The Final Poison; Morell's Implosion; Back Matter; Acknowledgments; Notes

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