Nazis on Drugs: Hitler and the Blitzkrieg(2019)

movie - first aired/released 2019-07-19 - 80 min - audience 6.2

Documentary, History

Directed by Jason Sklaver

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.