Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler review a crass and dangerously inaccurate account
Book of the dayHistory booksReviewOhler’s book claims not only that German soldiers and civilians commonly used methamphetamine, but that Hitler was a drug addict
Nazi Germany proclaimed from the outset that it was going to break with the moral and physical degeneracy of the Weimar republic. The Hitler Youth would provide the younger generation with physical exercise, military drill and long hikes over the mountains, in place of sex, drugs, alcohol, dance-halls and the “negroid” music of jazz and swing.
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