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Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
Berlin, 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use - long kept under control by the Nazis' strict anti-drug laws - is rampant throughout the city. In the American sector, Arthur J. Giuliani of the nascent Federal Bureau of Narcotics is tasked with learning about the Nazis' drug policies and bringing home anything that might prove 'useful'. Five years later, Harvard professor Dr Henry Beecher begins work with the US government to uncover the research behind the Nazis' psychedelics programme. Originally created for medical purposes by Dr Albert Hofmann, the Nazis coopted LSD to experiment with mind control and find a 'truth serum' - research that the US, particularly the CIA, is desperate to acquire. Based on extensive archival research, Tripped is a wild, unconventional post-war history, a spiritual sequel to Norman Ohler's bestselling Blitzed. Revealing the hidden connections between the Nazis and the CIA's notorious brainwashing experimentation programme, MKUltra, Ohler shares how this secret history held back the therapeutic research of psychedelic drugs for decades as the West sought to turn LSD into a weapon.
Norman Ohler (Author), Kris Dyer (Narrator)
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[German] - Der stärkste Stoff - Psychedelische Drogen: Waffe, Rauschmittel, Medikament (Ungekürzte L
LSD: Wie alles begann und was in der Gegenwart daraus wurde Wie Norman Ohler in seinem internationalen Bestseller Der totale Rausch am Beispiel der NS-Zeit gezeigt hat, spielen Drogen und Drogenpolitik eine dramatische, immer noch unterschätzte Rolle in der Geschichte der Menschheit. In seinem neuen Buch nimmt der Autor diesen Faden wieder auf und untersucht, wie Entwicklung, Produktion und Verbreitung psychedelischer Substanzen Politik und Gesellschaft von der Nachkriegszeit bis in die Gegenwart geprägt haben. Bei seinen ebenso abenteuerlichen wie gründlichen Recherchen in Archiven in Europa und den USA differenziert Norman Ohler zwischen drei Dimensionen beim Blick auf Drogen: ihre Funktion als Rauschmittel, als Werkzeug der Bewusstseinskontrolle sowie als Heilmittel. Am Beispiel der Entdeckung des LSDs und dem aus mexikanischen Pilzen gewonnenen Psilocybin bringt Norman Ohler Licht in das Zusammenspiel aus wissenschaftlicher Forschung, staatlichen Behörden und hedonistischer Drogenkultur. Und er zeigt überzeugend, wie eine undifferenzierte Prohibitionspolitik Fortschritte im Kampf gegen Zivilisationskrankheiten wie Depression oder Alzheimer verhindert. Es treten auf: Albert Hofmann und die Basler Firmen Sandoz und Novartis, Harry J. Anslinger und sein Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Richard Nixon und Elvis Presley, Aldous Huxley und John Lennon, sowie die Eltern des Autoren.
Norman Ohler (Author), Norman Ohler (Narrator)
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Der totale Rausch - Drogen im Dritten Reich (Ungekürzte Autorenlesung)
Drogen im Dritten Reich: Norman Ohler geht den Tätern von damals buchstäblich unter die Haut und schaut direkt in ihre Blutbahnen hinein. Arisch rein ging es darin nicht zu, sondern chemisch deutsch - und ziemlich toxisch. Wo die Ideologie für Fanatismus und 'Endsieg' nicht mehr ausreichte, wurde hemmungslos nachgeholfen. Als Deutschland 1940 Frankreich überfiel, standen die Soldaten der Wehrmacht unter 35 Millionen Dosierungen Pervitin. Das Präparat - heute als Crystal Meth bekannt - machte den Blitzkrieg erst möglich. Auch der vermeintliche Abstinenzler Hitler griff gerne zur pharmakologischen Stimulanz: Als er im Winter 1944 seine letzte Offensive befehligte, war er längst süchtig nach Eukodal, einem Opiat stärker als Heroin. Täglich erhielt er von seinem Leibarzt Theo Morell verschiedenste Dopingmittel, dubiose Hormonpräparate und auch harte Drogen gespritzt. Nur so konnte der Diktator seinen Wahn bis zum Schluss aufrechterhalten.
Norman Ohler (Author), Norman Ohler (Narrator)
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The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis
Drawing on unpublished diaries, letters and Gestapo files, Norman Ohler spins an unforgettable tale of love, heroism and sacrifice. Summertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out sailing when he glimpses a woman reclining in the prow of a passing boat. Their eyes meet - and one of history's greatest conspiracies is born. Harro Schulze-Boysen had already shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of antifascists that stretched across Berlin's bohemian underworld. Harro himself infiltrated German intelligence and began funnelling Nazi battle plans to the Allies, including the details of Hitler's surprise attack on the Soviet Union. But nothing could prepare Harro and Libertas for the betrayals they would suffer in this war of secrets - a struggle in which friend could be indistinguishable from foe. "The Infiltrators is an astonishing story of the anti-Nazi resistance - a story of love, incredible bravery and self-sacrifice, which could end only in death - and it is brilliantly told." ANTONY BEEVOR
Norman Ohler (Author), Kris Dyer (Narrator)
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Die Gleichung des Lebens (Autorisierte Lesefassung)
Friedrich der Große will die Sumpfgebiete östlich von Berlin trockenlegen. Wo noch Fische, Schildkröten und Wasservögel in überwältigender Artenvielfalt leben, sollen Kühe grasen und die Kartoffel wachsen. Unter den Fischern herrscht Unruhe, sie fürchten den Untergang ihrer Welt. Als der Ingenieur Mahistre tot am Oderstrand angetrieben wird, übernimmt Leonhard Euler die Ermittlungen und gerät plötzlich selbst ins Visier. Nur die Begegnung mit Oda, der Tochter des Anführers der Wenden, kann sein Leben noch retten.
Norman Ohler (Author), Reinhard Kuhnert (Narrator)
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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World War II, Germany was a pharmaceutical powerhouse, and companies such as Merck and Bayer cooked up cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, to be consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to millions of German soldiers. In fact, troops regularly took rations of a form of crystal meth-the elevated energy and feelings of invincibility associated with the high even help to explain certain German military victories. Drugs seeped all the way up to the Nazi high command and, especially, to Hitler himself. Over the course of the war, Hitler became increasingly dependent on injections of a cocktail of drugs-including a form of heroin-administered by his personal doctor. While drugs alone cannot explain the Nazis' toxic racial theories or the events of World War II, Ohler's investigation makes an overwhelming case that, if drugs are not taken into account, our understanding of the Third Reich is fundamentally incomplete. Carefully researched and rivetingly readable, Blitzed throws surprising light on a history that, until now, has remained in the shadows.
Norman Ohler (Author), Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)
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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Blitzed by Norman Ohler, read by Jonathan Keeble. The sensational German bestseller on the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich, from Hitler to housewives. 'Bursting with interesting facts' Vice 'Extremely interesting ... a serious piece of scholarship, very well researched' Ian Kershaw The Nazis presented themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy. Yet, as Norman Ohler's gripping bestseller reveals, the entire Third Reich was permeated with drugs: cocaine, heroin, morphine and, most of all, methamphetamines, or crystal meth, used by everyone from factory workers to housewives, and crucial to troops' resilience - even partly explaining German victory in 1940. The promiscuous use of drugs at the very highest levels also impaired and confused decision-making, with Hitler and his entourage taking refuge in potentially lethal cocktails of stimulants administered by the physician Dr Morell as the war turned against Germany. While drugs cannot on their own explain the events of the Second World War or its outcome, Ohler shows, they change our understanding of it. Blitzed forms a crucial missing piece of the story.
Norman Ohler (Author), Jonathan Keeble (Narrator)
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