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Blitzed : drugs in the Third Reich

Ohler, Norman (author.). Whiteside, Shaun, (translator.).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781328664099
  • ISBN: 1328664090
  • Physical Description: remote
    1 online resource (307 p.)
  • Edition: Frist U.S. edition.
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017].

Content descriptions

General Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
BibliographyPhoto Credits; Index; Back Flap; Back Cover; Spine
Formatted Contents Note:
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 Drug
Subject:
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
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Electronic books.

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