閃電戰：第三帝國的毒品

 Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

Norman Ohler, Shaun Whiteside

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A fast-paced narrative that discovers a surprising perspective on World War II: Nazi Germany’s all-consuming reliance on drugs

The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World War II, Germany was a pharmaceutical powerhouse, and companies such as Merck and Bayer cooked up cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, to be consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to millions of German soldiers. In fact, troops regularly took rations of a form of crystal meth—the elevated energy and feelings of invincibility associated with the high even help to explain certain German military victories. Drugs seeped all the way up to the Nazi high command and, especially, to Hitler himself. Over the course of the war, Hitler became increasingly dependent on injections of a cocktail of drugs—including a form of heroin—administered by his personal doctor. While drugs alone cannot explain the Nazis’ toxic racial theories or the events of World War II, Ohler’s investigation makes an overwhelming case that, if drugs are not taken into account, our understanding of the Third Reich is fundamentally incomplete. Carefully researched and rivetingly readable, Blitzed throws surprising light on a history that, until now, has remained in the shadows.

閃電戰：第三帝國的毒品

諾曼·歐勒，肖恩·懷特塞德

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一個快節奏的敘述，發現了一個令人驚訝的二戰視角：納粹德國對毒品的極度依賴

納粹政權宣揚身體、精神和道德純潔的意識形態。但正如諾曼·奧勒在這段扣人心弦的新歷史中所揭示的那樣，第三帝國充滿了毒品。二戰前夕，德國是製藥強國，默克和拜耳等公司製造了可卡因、鴉片製劑，最重要的是甲基苯丙胺，供從工廠工人到家庭主婦再到數百萬德國士兵的所有人食用. 事實上，軍隊經常服用某種形式的冰毒——與高能量相關的高能量和無敵感甚至有助於解釋某些德國軍事勝利。毒品一直滲透到納粹最高統帥部，尤其是希特勒本人。在整個戰爭過程中，希特勒越來越依賴由他的私人醫生注射的藥物混合物——包括一種海洛因。雖然僅靠毒品無法解釋納粹的有毒種族理論或二戰事件，但奧勒的調查提出了一個壓倒性的案例，即如果不考慮毒品，我們對第三帝國的理解從根本上是不完整的。仔細研究和引人入勝的可讀性，閃電戰為一段至今仍處於陰影中的歷史帶來了令人驚訝的曙光。