Speedballs for Hitler: According to Blitzed, Nazis Were Meth-Addled Psychos

by Christopher FrizzelleBlitzed is a fast read and it explains a few things.
When the Nazis invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, they were high on methamphetamine. The German-made product Pervitin "helped the tank units not to worry too much about what they were doing" and "let them get on with the job—even if the job meant killing," writes Norman Ohler in his eye-opening new book Blitzed. "Hitler refused to acknowledge" the drug's role in military successes, insisting the Nazis' secret wa