Norman Ohler

"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 already had 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 antifascist fighters that stretched...

"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. Split into four sectors, Berlin's drug policies are being enforced under the individual jurisdictions of each allied power-the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and the US. In the American zone, Arthur J. Giuliani of the nascent Federal Bureau of Narcotics is tasked with learning about the Nazis' anti-drug...

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...