Blitzed

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"War was seen as a task that needed to be worked through, and the drug seemed to have helped the tank units not to worry too much about what they were doing in this foreign country, and instead let them get on with their job - even if the job meant killing."

Short Review

Blitzed captures an overlooked aspect of Nazi Germany: drug usage. Under the ideology of National Socialism, drug usage was specifically condemned as a violation of bodily purity. Despite this, drug usage ran rampant in the Third Reich, from factory workers to soldiers. Blitzkrieg, Germany's military strategy to bring swift victory, relied on the effects of methamphetamine to keep soldiers marching for weeks on end. Hitler himself relied on a cocktail of drugs to deal with the pressures of war, leading to serious effects on his physical and mental health.

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