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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
by Norman Ohler
So, all Nazis were just on an absurd cocktail of pharmaceuticals (cough meth, hydrocodone, cocaine cough), and apparently none of them ever slept? That’s just the baseline. But this book? It zooms in on Hitler’s personal physician, a man who turned the entire German population (and a lot of animal parts) into his personal pharmaceutical Monopoly. He also turned all his patients into guinea pigs too. All while pretending to adhere Hitler’s supposed “ban on drugs.” Fuck, even his vegetarian diet. The amount of animal parts that went into his “innovative work” made me feel like I truly needed to vomit.
Let’s be real though. Drugs have always been legal for the people who can rebrand them. Slap on a prescription label, toss them into a sterile bottle, and suddenly it’s medicine, not meth. This book doesn’t just peel back the layers of Nazi drug dependency, it also exposes the ongoing nightmare that is Big Pharma, the war on drugs, and how governments create the crisis and then punish the fallout.
Because it’s not just about drug dealers, it’s about who’s funding, producing, and profiting from the whole system. Then and now. We just keep dressing the problem up in new names and pretending it’s not the same old rot. We keep blaming the people with the disease that THEY CREATED.
And don’t even get me started on the Hitler/Orange Man parallels. The praise for brutality (he was methed out), the cultish admiration (meth, again), the nonstop performance of power (a cocktail of meth and opioids)… none of it new, all of it deeply unsettling and repeating itself. This book felt eerily timely. Leaders shouldn’t be idolized. Ever. No matter what political party you fall in. They should be questioned relentlessly, held accountable, and torn down when they abuse that power.
Reading this right now, in the current mess of our own making (especially after this current week in the U.S.) Uncomfortable at best and fucking disgusting at the worst. Definitely a read I would recommend.
Let’s be real though. Drugs have always been legal for the people who can rebrand them. Slap on a prescription label, toss them into a sterile bottle, and suddenly it’s medicine, not meth. This book doesn’t just peel back the layers of Nazi drug dependency, it also exposes the ongoing nightmare that is Big Pharma, the war on drugs, and how governments create the crisis and then punish the fallout.
Because it’s not just about drug dealers, it’s about who’s funding, producing, and profiting from the whole system. Then and now. We just keep dressing the problem up in new names and pretending it’s not the same old rot. We keep blaming the people with the disease that THEY CREATED.
And don’t even get me started on the Hitler/Orange Man parallels. The praise for brutality (he was methed out), the cultish admiration (meth, again), the nonstop performance of power (a cocktail of meth and opioids)… none of it new, all of it deeply unsettling and repeating itself. This book felt eerily timely. Leaders shouldn’t be idolized. Ever. No matter what political party you fall in. They should be questioned relentlessly, held accountable, and torn down when they abuse that power.
Reading this right now, in the current mess of our own making (especially after this current week in the U.S.) Uncomfortable at best and fucking disgusting at the worst. Definitely a read I would recommend.