Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

by Norman Ohler

Here the methamphetamine produced was of a quality that even Walter White, the drug cook in the TV series Breaking Bad, which depicts meth as a symbol of our times, could only have dreamed of.

If the Weimar Republic can be seen in psychohistorical terms as a repressed society, its supposed antagonists, the National Socialists, were at the head of that trend. They hated drugs because they wanted to be like a drug themselves.

The anti-drug policy served as a vehicle for the exclusion and suppression, even the destruction, of marginal groups and minorities.

The extremely political question of whether our bodies belong to us or to a legal-social network of social and health-related interests remains a virulent one even today.

Crystal meth to avoid road accidents? Really?

with the remark: “I need someone I can drink a bottle of red wine with in the evening.”125 Similar considerations

Generalluftzeugmeister talked together, they liked

front, he was indeed further removed from the realities of war than ever before. This determination to hide himself away (nothing unusual really, for dictators)

now Hitler paid scarcely any attention to affairs of state. He preferred to stay up all night, seldom went to bed before six o’clock, and what he liked best of all was talking to Speer about grandiose architectural projects—although these were now purely illusory.

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Giesing obeyed and administered the drug, this time in such a dose that Hitler is believed to have lost consciousness and for a short time there is supposed to have been a danger of respiratory paralysis. If the account given by Giesing is accurate, then the self-described abstainer almost died of an overdose.