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Hitler’s henchmen pushed amphetamines on an unsuspecting population to boost productivity and efficiency. Americans in the Meth Belt are doing likewise, with ruinous results.
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’s film Palermo Shooting.