A gripping nonfiction history of how methamphetamines and other drugs saturated Nazi Germany, from soldiers to Hitler.
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A gripping nonfiction history of how methamphetamines and other drugs saturated Nazi Germany, from soldiers to Hitler.
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The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World War II, Germany was a pharmaceutical powerhouse, and companies such as Merck and Bayer cooked up cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, to be consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to millions of German soldiers. In fact, troops regularly took rations of a form of crystal...
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Sexual content
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Brief mention of Eva Braun's sexual practices; no romance depicted
Violence & gore
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WWII military campaigns and wartime deaths referenced without graphic gore
Profanity
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No evidence found in available sources
Substance use
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Central focus on meth, cocaine, opiates; Hitler's addiction and army drug use
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Central focus on Nazi ideology, Third Reich politics, and WWII events
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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References to genocide, racial theories, and systemic wartime suffering
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