Thanks to Sam Parr’s recommendation, I am reading Blitzed, a book about Germany’s widespread manufacture and usage of meth and other drugs after WW1, and how, despite Hitler’s reputation as a strict clean teetotaler, there is plenty of evidence he was addicted to cocaine and opiates.
Just had to share this song that the author references from 1920s Berlin:
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Once not so very long ago
Sweet alcohol, that beast,
Brought warmth and sweetness to our lives,
But then the price increased.
And so cocaine and morphine
Berliners now select.
Let lightning flashes rage outside
We snort and we inject!
At dinner in the restaurant
The waiter brings the tin
Of coke for us to feast upon—
Forget whisky and gin!
Let drowsy morphine take its Subcutaneous effect
Upon our nervous system—
We snort and we inject!
These medications aren’t allowed,
Of course, they’re quite forbidden.
But even such illicit treats
Are very seldom hidden.
Euphoria awaits us
And though, as we suspect,
Our foes can’t wait to shoot us down,
We snort and we inject!
And if we snort ourselves to death
Or into the asylum,
Our days are going downhill fast—
How better to beguile ’em?
Europe’s a madhouse anyway,
No need for genuflecting;
The only way to Paradise
Is snorting and injecting!