02910cam a2200373 4500 582678624 TxAuBib 20220717120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781504799249 1504799240 7752dce3-cd4b-4d2c-894f-c7d783ea5f78 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3177602 OverDrive (Product ID) 9781982468941 9781982468941 TxAuBib Ohler, Norman. Blitzed [Bridges Audiobook] : Drugs in the Third Reich. Blackstone Publishing, 2017. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 202MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 202MB. HTML:<p>The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs.</p> <p>On the eve of World War II, Germany was a pharmaceutical powerhouse, and companies such as Merck and Bayer cooked up cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, to be consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to millions of German soldiers. In fact, troops regularly took rations of a form of crystal meth—the elevated energy and feelings of invincibility associated with the high even help to explain certain German military victories.</p> <p>Drugs seeped all the way up to the Nazi high command and, especially, to Hitler himself. Over the course of the war, Hitler became increasingly dependent on injections of a cocktail of drugs—including a form of heroin—administered by his personal doctor, Dr. Morell.</p> <p>While drugs alone cannot explain the Nazis' toxic racial theories or the events of World War II, Ohler's investigation makes an overwhelming case that, if drugs are not taken into account, our understanding of the Third Reich is fundamentally incomplete. Carefully researched and rivetingly readable, Blitzed throws surprising light on a history that, until now, has remained in the shadows.</p>. Nonfiction. Military. History. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-14 20:00:03. Whiteside, Shaun. Bloom, Claire. Rudnicki, Stefan. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/3177602-Blitzed.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7752dce3-cd4b-4d2c-894f-c7d783ea5f78&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/3177602-Blitzed.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7752dce3-cd4b-4d2c-894f-c7d783ea5f78&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)