Extentsive use of psychopharmaceutical performance enhancement in the Third Reich is the subject of Norman Ohler’s fascinating and eye-opening book. Though by no means the first work on the synergy between drugs and war under National Socialism, Blitzed is by far the most comprehensive account in English of the remarkable ways in which intoxicants fuelled the Nazi war machine.
keywords in English:
methamphetamine, Adolf Hitler, Third Reich, Blitzkrieg, pharmacology, stimulants, warfare, World War II
affiliation:
Wydział Studiów Międzynarodowych i Politycznych : Instytut Amerykanistyki i Studiów Polonijnych