Nazis on Drugs: Hitler and the Blitzkrieg

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You can watch Nazis on Drugs: Hitler and the Blitzkrieg (2019) on Hoopla with a participating library card.

For all its talk of racial, spiritual, and physical purity, the self-anointed “Master Race” harbored a secret…theirs was an axis of drug addicts. This two-hour special explores the origin, impact, and lasting effects of the state-sponsored drug use that helped build—and eventually burned—the Third Reich. Incredible new sources of information, including a detailed journal maintained by Hitler’s personal physician, reveal the extent of not just his, but the entire Nazi Party’s reliance on drugs to power their war effort.

Forget the myth of the disciplined, pure-blooded soldier to discover a regime fueled by state-sponsored chemical dependency. This documentary exposes how systemic drug use fueled the Nazi war machine and ultimately accelerated its collapse.