The sensational account of the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich - from Hitler and his entourage to ordinary troops.
Norman Ohler was born in Zweibr cken in 1970. He is the author of
three novels, Die Quotenmaschine (the world's first hypertext
novel), Mitte and Stadt des Goldes as well as two novellas. He was
co-writer of the script for Wim Wenders' film Palermo Shooting. He
researched Blitzed in numerous archives across Germany and the
United States.
Shaun Whiteside has translated widely in both French and German,
including Sybille Steinbacher's Auschwitz- A History.
German writer Norman Ohler's astonishing account of methamphetamine
addiction in the Third Reich changes what we know about the second
world war .. Blitzed looks set to reframe the way certain aspects
of the Third Reich will be viewed in the future
*Guardian*
A huge contribution... remarkable
*BBC RADIO 4*
Blitzed is making me rethink everything I've ever seen and read
about WWII. It emotionally and technically makes sense of
previously unexplainable aspects of that war. It makes me want to
revisit other books on it with the hindsight of knowing these newly
exposed truths. It was terrific!
*Douglas Coupland*
The picture he paints is both a powerful and an extreme one...
gripping reading
*Times Literary Supplement*
Remarkable... energetic... retells the history of the war through
the prism of the pill... it has an uncanny ability to disturb
*The Times*
Very good and extremely interesting - a serious piece of
scholarship very well-researched
*Ian Kershaw author of Hitler and To Hell and Back*
The most brilliant and fascinating book I have read in my entire
life
*Dan Snow*
Norman Ohler has succeeded in a remarkable scoop, by studying in
detail the notebooks of Hitler's personal doctor and demonstrating
that Hitler was a far worse junkie than we had ever imagined. He
has also unearthed the way that the German army did not march on
its stomach, but on methamphetamine. The supposedly clean-living
Nazis, who accused the Jews of corrupting German youth, were the
real pushers. The book, written with delightful irony, is an
eye-opener.
*Guardian*
This book transforms the overall picture
*Hans Mommsen*
Sensational
*Daily Mail*
Bursting with interesting facts
*Vice*
Norman Ohler has written an illuminating account of the gobsmacking
extent to which military strategy in the Third Reich relied on
drugs. ... What you'll learn: Never trust a coked-up Nazi
*ShortList*
A fascinating, most extraordinary revelation
*BBC World News*
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... played a crucial role in the successes, and failures,
of the Third Reich
*Esquire*
An audacious, compelling read
*Stern*
Enthralling
*Mitteldeutsche Zeitung*
A revelatory work that considers Hitler's career in a new light.
'Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich' is that rare sort of book whose
remarkable insight focuses on a subject that's been overlooked,
even disregarded by historians
*The San Francisco Chronicle*
Blitzed is a fascinating read that provides a new facet to our
understanding of the Third Reich
*Buzzfeed*
It's as breezy and darkly humorous as its title. But don't be
fooled by the gallows humor of chapter names like 'Sieg High' and
'High Hitler': This is a serious and original work of scholarship
that dropped jaws around Europe when it was published there last
year
*Mashable*
A juicier story would be hard to find
*The Week*
Delightfully nuts, in a 'Gravity's Rainbow' kind of way.
*The New Yorker*
Transforming meticulous research into compelling prose, Ohler
delves into the little-known history of drug use in Nazi
Germany
*Entertainment Weekly*
[A] fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the
Third Reich
*The Washington Post*
This heavily researched nonfiction book by a German journalist
reports that the drug was widely taken by soldiers, all the way up
the ranks to Hitler himself, who received injections of a drug
cocktail that also included an opioid
*Newsday*
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