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Blitzed

Drugs in the Third Reich

By: Norman Ohler

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Blitzed

Drugs in the Third Reich

By: Norman Ohler

A New York Times bestseller, Norman Ohler's Blitzed is a "fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich” (Washington Post). The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. Yet as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs: cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, which were consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to German soldiers. In fact, troops were encouraged, and in some cases ordered, to take rations of a form of crystal meth—the elevated energy and feelings of invincibility associated with the high even help to account for the breakneck invasion that sealed the fall of France in 1940, as well as other German military victories. Hitler himself became increasingly dependent on injections of a cocktail of drugs—ultimately including Eukodal, a cousin of heroin—administered by his personal doctor. Thoroughly researched and rivetingly readable, Blitzed throws light on a history that, until now, has remained in the shadows. “Delightfully nuts.”—The New Yorker

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1328664090

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Blitzed

Drugs in Nazi Germany

By: Norman Ohler

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Blitzed

Drugs in Nazi Germany

By: Norman Ohler

The sensational international bestseller on the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich 'The most brilliant and fascinating book I have read in my entire life' Dan Snow 'Extremely interesting ... a serious piece of scholarship, very well researched' Ian Kershaw The Nazis presented 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. While drugs cannot on their own explain the events of the Second World War or its outcome, Ohler shows, they change our understanding of it. Blitzed forms a crucial missing piece of the story.

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Penguin UK

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0241256984

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Tripped

Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age

By: Norman Ohler

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Tripped

Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age

By: Norman Ohler

The author of the New York Times bestseller Blitzed returns with a provocative new history of drugs and postwar America, examining the untold story of how Nazi experiments into psychedelics covertly influenced CIA research and secretly shaped the War on Drugs. Berlin 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use—long kept under control by the Nazis’ strict anti-drug laws—is rampant throughout the city. Split into four sectors, Berlin's drug policies are being enforced under the individual jurisdictions of each allied power—the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and the US. In the American zone, Arthur J. Giuliani of the nascent Federal Bureau of Narcotics is tasked with learning about the Nazis’ anti-drug laws and bringing home anything that might prove “useful” to the United States. Five years later, Harvard professor Dr. Henry Beecher began work with the US government to uncover the research behind the Nazis psychedelics program. Begun as an attempt to find a “truth serum” and experiment with mind control, the Nazi study initially involved mescaline, but quickly expanded to include LSD. Originally created for medical purposes by Swiss pharmaceutical Sandoz, the Nazis coopted the drug for their mind control military research—research that, following the war, the US was desperate to acquire. This research birthed MKUltra, the CIA's notorious brainwashing and psychological torture program during the 1950s and 1960s, and ultimately shaped US drug policy regarding psychedelics for over half a century. Based on extensive archival research on both sides of the Atlantic, Tripped is a wild, unconventional postwar history, a spiritual sequel to Norman Ohler’s New York Times bestseller Blitzed. Revealing the close relationship and hidden connections between the Nazis and the early days of drugs in America, Ohler shares how this secret history held back therapeutic research of psychedelic drugs for decades and eventually became part of the foundation of America’s War on Drugs.

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0358646480

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The Bohemians

The Lovers who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

By: Norman Ohler

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The Bohemians

The Lovers who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

By: Norman Ohler

From the New York Times best-selling author of Blitzed, the incredible true story of two idealistic young lovers who led the anti-Nazi resistance in the darkening heart of Berlin.

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1328566307

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Blitzed

Drugs in Nazi Germany

By: Norman Ohler

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The Bohemians

The Lovers who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

By: Norman Ohler

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The Lovers who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

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From the New York Times best-selling author of Blitzed, the incredible true story of two idealistic young lovers who led the anti-Nazi resistance in the darkening heart of Berlin.

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The Maltby Brothers' Civil War

By: Norman C. Delaney

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The Maltby Brothers' Civil War

By: Norman C. Delaney

On December 11, 1863, a US brigadier general and a Confederate artillery captain met on board the packet steamer Diligent on the Mississippi River below Vicksburg. The Confederate officer had not come on board on official business; he was a paroled prisoner of war. The brigadier general was his older brother, who had learned of the younger man’s capture three weeks earlier at Confederate Fort Semmes, on the Texas coast, and had arranged to have him brought from New Orleans to Vicksburg to be given medical care at the Federal garrison. The American Civil War has rightly been called a war of brothers; Henry, Jasper, and William Maltby were three such brothers. The scene recounted above was between Jasper and William, who had not seen each other in several years since Jasper had left their birth home in Ohio, but who met frequently over the months following their reunion, their familial bond overriding their political allegiances. The three brothers’ lives cover the critical years of Civil War and Reconstruction, a time when Jasper devotedly served the Union cause, while Henry and William became outspoken secessionists, operating Confederate newspapers in Corpus Christi, Matamoros, and Brownsville, eventually as a thorn in the side of Reconstruction officials. Despite their own Southern sympathies, the two Confederates cherished their Yankee brother, whose bravery at Fort Donelson and Vicksburg took a heavy toll on his health and eventually cost him his life. Both Rebels named a son in honor of their hero brother. Combining detailed research in William Maltby’s personal papers with contemporary accounts, military and court records, and the editorials of the two who became newspapermen, veteran scholar and educator Norman Delaney has created a vibrant story of how war can affect a family and a community.

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Texas A&M University Press

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162349088X

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Historic Haunted America

By: Michael Norman,Beth Scott

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Historic Haunted America

By: Michael Norman,Beth Scott

Continuing the success of the nationally acclaimed Haunted America, Historic Haunted America is a further investigation into North American ghost legends. This chilling collection documents yesterday's and today's most terrifying hauntings in the United States and Canada in more than seventy-five shocking stories! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Macmillan

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1466805153

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High Hitler: Las Drogas en el III Reich

By: Norman Ohler

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High Hitler: Las Drogas en el III Reich

By: Norman Ohler

Este es un libro fundamental para conocer mejor a Hitler, por un lado; pero tambi�n para entender los �xitos militares del nazismo. Como ha dicho el gran historiador Hans Mommsen: �Norman Ohler se ocupa de una dimensi�n hasta ahora insuficientemente conocida del r�gimen nazi: la importancia del uso creciente de drogas en la sociedad nacionalsocialista�. Bas�ndose en fuentes hasta ahora no utilizadas, Ohler no s�lo profundiza en la drogadicci�n de Adolf Hitler, a quien su m�dico personal manten�a activo d�ndole hasta 74 estimulantes distintos, sino en la difusi�n del uso de metanfetamina entre la poblaci�n alemana, y nos descubre que se administraron millones de dosis a las tropas que hab�an de resistir los tremendos esfuerzos que requer�a la realizaci�n de las campa�as de la blitzkrieg. El abuso excesivo de las drogas por parte de Hitler.

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Planeta Publishing

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6077473251

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Limits of Hitler's Power

By: Edward Norman Peterson

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Limits of Hitler's Power

By: Edward Norman Peterson

Professor Peterson examines these questions in relation to Hitler's government with its reputedly unlimited internal power; he traces the flow of power throughout the Nazi state from 1933 to 1945, from Hitler to his ministers to provincial governments. Through a detailed analysis of the province of Bavaria the author shows that Hitler did not have the absolute power often assumed; that power in a totalitarian state is far more complex than many historians have conjectured; that Hitler dealt with a vast bureaucratic structure complicated by constant internecine fighting, and that only rarely did he command complete obedience. Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400878098

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The Making of the Pentateuch

A Methodological Study

By: R. Norman Whybray

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The Making of the Pentateuch

A Methodological Study

By: R. Norman Whybray

Whybray's recent book is a masterful review of all the options set out by critical scholarship since Wellhausen, i.e., over the last century. It is an exhaustive and up to date treatment, concise and highly readable.' E. Dyck, Crux 'Sensitive to standards of ancient historiography and parallels from the Greek sphere, Whybray proposes that the Pentateuch is the work of an ancient historian, possibly designed as a supplement or prologue to the deuteronomistic history. The analysis of the work of others and of the state of [CHECK REVIEW!] extremely valuable; the final suggestion makes it all the more engaging. Essential for all concerned with fundamentals of critical biblical studies.' W. Lee Humphreys, Religious Studies Review

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A&C Black

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0567594211

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Ponte City

By: Norman Ohler

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Ponte City

By: Norman Ohler

In the early 1990s, Lucy moves from Soweto to Ponte City in Johannesburg. Once white society's architectural showpiece for luxurious living, Ponte is now a teeming hive of newly liberated people, who have come to seek wealth in the city of gold.

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New Africa Books

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0864866291

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9780864866295

Conversations with Norman Mailer

By: Norman Mailer

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Conversations with Norman Mailer

By: Norman Mailer

In twenty eight interviews this great American writer rises to the occasion and is at his sharpest in conversations with Lillian Ross, Marshall McLuhan, Malcolm Muggeridge, William F. Buckley, Jr., and George Plimpton.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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0878053522

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9780878053520

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The Maltby Brothers' Civil War

The Maltby Brothers' Civil War

Historic Haunted America

Historic Haunted America

High Hitler: Las Drogas en el III Reich

High Hitler: Las Drogas en el III Reich

Limits of Hitler's Power

Limits of Hitler's Power

The Making of the Pentateuch

The Making of the Pentateuch

Ponte City

Ponte City

Conversations with Norman Mailer

Conversations with Norman Mailer

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