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Prussian Blue

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Labatut, Benjamin. When We Cease to Understand the World. The New York Review of Books, 2020. Paperback.

· In “Prussian Blue,” Hermann Goring is mentioned as a Nazi leader addicted to the analgesic dihydrocodeine.

· Addictions were common among German troops.

· Everyone in the Wehrmacht received Pervitin as part of the rations.

· The drug allowed them to stay awake for weeks fighting in either a manic state or a stupor.

· Letters from the German writer Heinrich Boll to his family were often requests for Pervitin.

· As the Germans began to lose the war and Hitler ordered a scorched earth policy, many Nazis “chose a quick escape,” and killed themselves with cyanide capsules.

· Suicide was common during the last months of the war.

· Citizens in the town of Demmin drowned themselves and their children when bridges were...

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