Book Presentation + Discussion with Author Norman Ohler
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.
Blitzed is a fast-paced, highly original history that uncovers the full extent of drug use in Nazi Germany—from Hitler’s all-consuming reliance on a slew of substances, to the drugs that permeated the regime and played an integral role in Germany’s military performance and ultimate downfall in World War II.
Discussion with Norman Ohler, moderated by Professor of History, and Director of USC's Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies, and reception following the presentation.
Skylight Books will be on site and have copies of BLITZED: Drugs in the Third Reich available for sale.
Norman Ohler is an award-winning German novelist, screenwriter, and journalist. He spent five years researching Blitzed in numerous archives in Germany and the United States, and spoke to eye-witnesses, military historians, and doctors. He is also the author of the novels
Die Quotenmaschine (the world’s first hypertext novel),
Mitte and
Stadt des Goldes (translated into English as
Ponte City). He was co-writer of the script for Wim Wenders’ film Palermo Shooting.
Presented in cooperation with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and USC's Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies.
$1 validated parking (for events only) on weekdays after 6:00 pm and all day on weekends in the Wilshire Courtyard West underground garage-P1.
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