By late 1944, Nazi Germany was facing Allied armies to the west and six million Soviets to the east. Published in the original German as The Total Rush, it tells the story of how Nazi Germany fought a surprising amount of the Second World War in a drug-fueled haze. Pervitin, a popular over-the-counter drug in Nazi Germany, was a close cousin of modern-day crystal meth. Three million German troops moved into France, Belgium and the Netherland in the spring of 1940. By Ohler’s account, by the end of the Second World War, Nazi Germany was at the beck and call of a junkie.

Source: National Post September 28, 2016 16:30 UTC