Kyle Harrison
to-read
Blitzed
Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
- Author
- Norman Ohler
- Published
- 2015
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Ohler’s archival account of methamphetamine in the Wehrmacht — Pervitin issued for the 1940 push through the Ardennes — and of the injections Theodor Morell was giving Hitler by the end.
Where I heard about it
- The replies to @typesfast — named in the thread asking “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” (June 2025); the full set of replies is on What’s the best history book… (tweet).
About this edition
The year given is the German original, Der totale Rausch (2015); the English translation followed in 2016.
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- World War II — the war the book covers.