Norman Ohler's 2016 history of drug use in Nazi Germany — documenting how Pervitin (methamphetamine) fueled the Blitzkrieg and how Hitler received daily drug injections — the most thoroughly documented account of institutional drug use in modern warfare.
Creates the Nazi drug use history — Blitzed documents that 35 million Pervitin tablets were distributed to German forces in 1940, that the Blitzkrieg's unprecedented speed was partly enabled by soldiers who could not sleep for days, and that Hitler's deterioration in the war's final years correlates with his escalating drug regimen.
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