Blitzed

The Nazis styled themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy. Yet as Norman Ohler''s gripping bestseller reveals the entire Third Reich was permeated with drugs: cocaine heroin morphine and most of all methamphetamines or crystal meth used by everyone from factory workers to housewives and crucial to troops'' resilience - even partly explaining German victory in 1940. The promiscuous use of drugs at the very highest levels also impaired and confused decision-making with Hitler and his entourage taking refuge in potentially lethal cocktails of stimulants administered by the physician Dr Morell as the war turned against Germany. Blitzed forms a crucial missing piece of the story of WW2.