Doug Irvine answers “How can we take this book seriously...”

Niklas Pivic asked this question about Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany:

How can we take this book seriously following this scathing critique? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/16/blitzed-drugs-in-nazi-germany-by-norman-ohler-review

Doug Irvine Hitler did not kill people because he did drugs. Hitler did drugs because he thought they would enable him to kill even more people. This strategy did…moreHitler did not kill people because he did drugs. Hitler did drugs because he thought they would enable him to kill even more people. This strategy did not pay off as it left him a raving junkie, who became so unstable that he blew up his own nut bar empire. If drugs did not save the world they at least saved millions of lives by shorting the war. So in closing yeah drugs, drugs good and boo hiss to blood thirsty monsters who think they make the world a better place if they can just kill enough people.(less)

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