Summary of Norman Ohler's Blitzed

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#1 Nazi Germany was also responsible for the popularization of methamphetamine, which is now either illegal or strictly regulated. It is a highly addictive substance that banishes both sleep and hunger while promising euphoria.

#2 I traveled to the Berlin suburb of Adlershof, where the Temmler factory was located. The grounds were overgrown with weeds, and the building was abandoned. I entered the building and found a dark hallway with flaking green paint and broken lead-framed industrial windows.

#3 The former laboratory of Dr. Fritz Hauschild, head of pharmacology at Temmler from 1937 until 1941, was the site of methamphetamine production.

#4 The development of modern societies is bound as tightly with the distribution of drugs as it is with advances in technology. In 1805 Goethe wrote Faust in classicist Weimar, and by poetic means perfected one of his theses, that the genesis of man is itself drug-induced.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822515765

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Contents

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Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Nazi Germany was also responsible for the popularization of methamphetamine, which is now either illegal or strictly regulated. It is a highly addictive substance that banishes both sleep and hunger while promising euphoria.

#2

I traveled to the Berlin suburb of Adlershof, where the Temmler factory was located. The grounds were overgrown with weeds, and the building was abandoned. I entered the building and found a dark hallway with flaking green paint and broken lead-framed industrial windows.

#3

The former laboratory of Dr. Fritz Hauschild, head of pharmacology at Temmler from 1937 until 1941, was the site of methamphetamine production.

#4

The development of modern societies is bound as tightly with the distribution of drugs as it is with advances in technology. In 1805 Goethe wrote Faust in classicist Weimar, and by poetic means perfected one of his theses, that the genesis of man is itself drug-induced.

#5

The chemical industry, unlike other industries, didn’t require as much in terms of overheads to get business going. What was most important was intuition and specialized knowledge. Germany was able to draw on an inexhaustible stock of excellent chemists and engineers, who were trained in the best education system in the world.

#6

The German drugs manufacturers were world leaders in the 1920s, producing the most medicines and chemical raw materials. They also produced the most heroin and cocaine.

#7

The Weimar Republic was a democracy that was ruled by the scientific and economic development of the country, as well as the spirit of the age. The city of Berlin became the experimental capital of Europe, and its residents were addicted to pleasure.

#8

The Nazis opposed the Weimar Republic’s drug culture, which they saw as a sign of the society’s degeneracy. They wanted to transform Germany into a drug, and they hated drugs because they wanted