Hey, just wondering if anyone's read / heard much about Norman Ohler's book, "Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany". I heard a lot about it a while ago and now that it's probably getting cheaper or in a library I'm wondering if it's worth a read.
The main point it makes is that there was rampant, state-sanctioned amphetamine abuse in the Third Reich, and that towards the end of the war Hitler and the Wehrmacht were pretty much functioning off it. As someone doing Germany for my national study it's quite interesting, and I'm curious whether it could be used as historiography detail in an essay (although I question if it'd ever be useful; maybe if one was justifying a "weak dictator" argument in a role of Hitler essay).
I think it's very pop history, as in people were harping on about it on Triple J for like a week level pop history, and I've heard it's very sensationalised, but I'm wondering if it still might be appreciated by markers because it's current? On the other hand, would it seem stupid considering how pop history / low brow appeal it is?
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