![]() ![]() Ohler documents the persistent intertwining of anti-Semitic rhetoric with the Nazis’ war on drugs, the laws passed in 1933 that threatened addicts with imprisonment and sterilization, and the encouragement to neighbors and co-workers to denounce habitual users - especially of cocaine and morphine - to the police. ![]() Ohler starts from the contradiction between the Nazi leadership’s vow to clean up the reputedly indulgent and pleasure-soaked culture of the Weimar Republic - constantly coded as “Jewish” - and the pervasive evidence that, within a few years, medical experts and military officials alike were pushing large quantities of Pervitin on the population. In particular, he writes in “Blitzed,” they were drawn to a little pill called Pervitin - a low-dose methamphetamine akin to present-day “crystal meth.” In the case of Adolf Hitler, the methamphetamine was supplemented with barbiturates, cocaine, steroids, sex hormones and an early form of Ox圜ontin. From factory workers to homemakers, from businessmen to members of the SS, almost everyone was, at some point, high on something. Norman Ohler, a journalist and novelist, believes that the Third Reich was, quite literally, an altered state. BLITZED Drugs in the Third Reich By Norman Ohler Translated by Shaun Whiteside Illustrated. ![]()
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