German author — whose Blitzed (2016) documented the systematic use of methamphetamine by the German military and by Hitler personally during World War II — a mainstream historian's account that reads like a thriller.
Creates the Nazi drug use historical account — Blitzed documents through primary sources (medical records, letters) that Wehrmacht soldiers used Pervitin (methamphetamine) extensively in the Blitzkrieg campaigns and that Hitler received daily injections of various drugs from his personal physician Theodor Morell.
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