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We’re not making excuses for them, but a whole lot of people in Nazi Germany were blitzed on drugs during World War II – especially crystal meth.

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Crystal meth was doled out to factory workers and housewives – and handed out to soldiers with such regularity they thought it was ‘like coffee’, according to a new book ‘Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany’.

The Nazis even made chocolates containing the drug Pervitin (methamphetamine).

Hitler: junkie (Picture Getty)

German author Norman Ohler says that the Fuhrer’s drug habit spiralled out of control as the war wore on – with a personal doctor injecting him an opiate painkiller, Eukodal.




Ohler said, ‘In the beginning the army didn’t realize Pervitin was a drug: Soldiers thought it was just like drinking coffee.

‘The Nazis wanted Pervitin to rival Coca Cola, so people took it, it worked and they were euphoric.’

Crystal meth, today (Picture Getty)

Blitzed by Norman Ohler is published in the UK on 6 October by Penguin.