Blitzed

A compelling account of the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich - from Hitler and his entourage to ordinary troops. In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler is the first to show how the entire Nazi regime was permeated with drugs - cocaine, heroin, morphine and methamphetamines. This chemical euphoria changes how we should think about the Nazi high command and its ability to understand the situation it found itself in by 1944-5.