5/22/2023 0 Comments Blitzed by Norman Ohlerplayed a crucial role in the successes, and failures, of the Third Reich Esquireīlitzed is making me rethink everything I've ever seen and read about WWII. The Nazis were all on drugs! So far, so sensationalist but German writer Norman Ohler's absorbing new non-fiction book, Blitzed, makes the convincing argument that the Nazis' use of chemical stimulants. What you'll learn: Never trust a coked-up Nazi ShortListĪ fascinating, most extraordinary revelation BBC World News Norman Ohler has written an illuminating account of the gobsmacking extent to which military strategy in the Third Reich relied on drugs. The most brilliant and fascinating book I have read in my entire life Dan Snow it has an uncanny ability to disturb Roger Boyes, The Times retells the history of the war through the prism of the pill. This book transforms the overall picture Hans Mommsen gripping reading Anna Katharina Schaffner, Times Literary Supplement The picture he paints is both a powerful and an extreme one. Very good and extremely interesting - a serious piece of scholarship very well-researched Ian Kershaw author of Hitler and To Hell and BackĪ huge contribution. Blitzed looks set to reframe the way certain aspects of the Third Reich will be viewed in the future Rachel Cooke, Guardian German writer Norman Ohler's astonishing account of methamphetamine addiction in the Third Reich changes what we know about the second world war.
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