Books 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 KershawThe 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.

Den første omfattende undersøgelse af sandheden bag brugen af narkotika i Det Tredje Rige. En øjenåbnende bog, der skildrer begivenhederne i Nazityskland og på de europæiske slagmarker i et nyt perspektiv – fra begyndelsen i 1933 til undergangen i 1945. Det Tredje Rige var gennemsyret af stoffer: kokain, heroin, morfin og frem for alt metamfetamin, som blev brugt af alle fra fabriksarbejdere til husmødre og var afgørende for troppernes modstandskraft. Brugen af narkotika på de allerhøjeste niveauer svækkede også evnen til at tage beslutninger, når Hitler og hans følge søgte tilflugt i potentielt dødelige cocktails af stimulanser, administreret af lægen dr. Morell, efterhånden som krigens gang vendte sig mod Tyskland. Selvom narkotika ikke alene kan forklare 2. Verdenskrig eller krigens udfald, ændrer det vores forståelse af krigen. DEN TOTALE RUS tilføjer en manglende brik til historien.

The incredible true story of two idealistic young lovers who led the anti-Nazi resistance in the darkening heart of Berlin, by the author of the internationally bestselling Blitzed.