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Drawing on previously unpublished sources, Norman Ohler reconstructs the Third Reich’s relationship with drugs: from the up to 74 different stimulants that Hitler’s personal physician administered to him, to the millions of doses of methamphetamine handed out to the troops who kept up the brutal pace of the blitzkrieg.

Features

• Author: Norman Ohler (trans. Héctor Piquer Minguijón)
• Subject: history, Second World War, drugs
• Pages: 336
• Publisher: Crítica (Memoria Crítica series)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 9788491993544

What it’s about

The book documents the spread of methamphetamine (Pervitin) use among the German population and the army, and delves into Hitler’s own drug addiction, revealing a hidden side of Nazism that conventional historiography had barely explored.

Who it’s for

For readers of 20th-century history interested in the lesser-known causes of the Second World War and in the role of psychoactive substances in major conflicts.

An unsettling story of drugs, power and war.