02859cam a2200433 i 4500 1262042836 TxAuBib 161207s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016056346 9781328663795 1328663795 (OCoLC)965781501 TxAuBib rda eng ger Ohler, Norman, author. Totale Rausch English. Blitzed : drugs in the Third Reich / Norman Ohler ; translated by Shaun Whiteside. First U.S. edition. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Translated from the German. Includes bibliographical references and index. Methamphetamine, the Volksdroge (1933/1938) -- Sieg high! (1939/1941) -- High Hitler: Patient A and his personal physician (1941/1944) -- The wonder drug (1944/1945) -- Acknowledgments. ""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. 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. 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. 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""--Provided by publisher. USM: In honor of Dr. Alfred Padula, Professor Emeritus, Department of History. Hitler, Adolf 1889-1945 Drug use. Nazis Drug use. Drugs Germany History 20th century. Pharmaceutical industry Germany History 20th century. Soldiers Drug use Germany History 20th century. World War, 1939-1945 Germany. Whiteside, Shaun, translator.