Blitz: 3 (Rook Files)

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Blitzed is a lively, intriguing and dare one say enjoyable book. It is not as the title perhaps suggests a account of drugs in Nazi Germany but more a powerfully suggestive story of narcotics usage within the Germany military and SS including Hitler as a junkie.Pervitin is linked to a senior staff doctor, named Professor Dr Otto F Ranke, director of the Research Institute of Defence Physiology. Ranke was involved in suggesting the drug could boost the performance of the army, which were under incredible pressure to perform, with Hitler making unprecedented demands. Indeed, the author suggests that the real enemy were not the British or Russian troops, but tiredness, and Pervitin offered a cure for exhaustion. Too late, Ranke saw the danger signs of addiction and side effects, but by then the army were marching for days and, while witnesses saw the invaders as virtually super-human, the troops themselves also began, dangerously, to believe in their own image.

With thousands upon thousands of books written about Nazi Germany and its “Fuhrer,” Adolf Hitler, one wonders if there is a relevant area of research that has not been mined thoroughly. The appearance of Norman Ohler’s BLITZED: DRUGS IN THE THIRD REICH provides an affirmative answer. A regime that prided itself on its anti-drug mantra was led by a man usually pumped full of drugs by his personal physician Dr. Theodor Morell. The premise of Ohler’s work, first published in Germany in 2015, is that the Nazis provided the world with a chemical legacy that remains a major problem today – opioid – methamphetamine addiction. The Nazis allowed the use of Volksdroge, “the people’s drug” unencumbered until the passage of the Reich Opium Law in 1941. Today, the substance is known as “crystal meth,” and is consumed by over 100 million people worldwide, though in most places it is illegal or strictly regulated.

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Celý to eskalovalo, když si v roce 1944 generál von Tomcruise zahrál na Pavla Zedníčka a předvedl na poradě svůj explodující kufr. V rámci léčby šoku dostal Hitler poprvý dávku kokainu. Tentokrát ne od svýho dvorního doktora, ale od ORL specialisty. Kokain mu chutnal stejně jako obyvatelům Berlína - vůbec se ho nemohl nabažid.

Hitler allowed himself the luxury of Eukodal [a morphine derivative] in the Spartan, windowless concrete hole of his headquarters. We can only surmise how often he took the drug. Twenty-four applications are recorded by the end of 1944. But was that all?” For decades their words have been held in the Mass-Observation Archive, a time capsule of ordinary voices that might otherwise have been forgotten. These voices tell the human story behind the iconic events of those six years, of the individuals grappling with a world turned upside down. From panic-buying and competitively digging for victory to extraordinary acts of bravery, Blitz Spirit is a remarkable collection of real wartime experiences that represent the best and worst of human nature in the face of adversity.After the general survey of the offensive, Ohler turns his attention specifically to Patient A, Adolf Hitler, and his personal physician, Theodor Morell. Ohler states that Hitler's drug use, and his relationship with his doctor have been relegated to historical footnotes far too long. These two factors should undoubtedly be considered when understanding the larger context of decisions in WWII. He bases this on Morell's personal notes and on archival materials recovered after the fall of the Third Reich.

Lyn a freaking amazing. O'Malley writes some absolutely badass women and Lynette Bins is no exception! She is absolutely everything I've come to know and love about a woman thrown into the Checquy with little to no choice in the matter and not only makes the best of it she *excels*. She is an absolute credit to Myfawny and Odette! I think what I enjoyed about her character the most is that she is a human who absolutely hates authority and is as paranoid if not more than The Checquy which is really what allows her to go rogue. Without her innate distrust of "the man" she wouldn't have gotten very far which makes her the perfect character for this world. Brown's book features an eclectic selection from the wartime years and is full of fascinating and sometimes surprising insights. The most fascinating part of the book is Hitler and his escalating drug use thanks in large part to his enabler/private doctor, Theodor Morell. Hitler went from vegetarian teetotaller at the start of the war to full-blown junkie at the end who was having 8 to 10 injections and 120 to 150 tablets a week! The list of drugs he was on is incredible - cocaine, morphine, strychnine, Pervitin, meth, and Eukodal (a more powerful strain of heroin), to name just a few! He was also being injected with all manner of bizarre concoctions derived from animal parts - hardly vegetarian!Brown's book features an eclectic selection from the wartime years and is full of fascinating and sometimes surprising insights.' Mail on Sunday Methamphetamine was a legal prescription drug marketed as Pervetin produced by the Berlin-based Temmler pharmaceutical company and glowingly endorsed by addicted doctors. It seemed like a miracle at first and was taken by civilians and the armed forces alike. Blitzkrieg was guided by methamphetimine. If not to say that Blitzkrieg was founded on methamphetamine.