Tripped

Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age

By: Norman Ohler

Narrated by: Kris Dyer

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. In the American sector, Arthur J. Giuliani of the nascent Federal Bureau of Narcotics is tasked with learning about the Nazis' drug policies and bringing home anything that might prove 'useful'.

Five years later, Harvard professor Dr Henry Beecher begins work with the US government to uncover the research behind the Nazis' psychedelics programme. Originally created for medical purposes by Dr Albert Hofmann, the Nazis coopted LSD to experiment with mind control and find a 'truth serum' - research that the US, particularly the CIA, is desperate to acquire.

Based on extensive archival research, Tripped is a wild, unconventional post-war history, a spiritual sequel to Norman Ohler's bestselling Blitzed. Revealing the hidden connections between the Nazis and the CIA's notorious brainwashing experimentation program, MKUltra, Ohler shares how this secret history held back the therapeutic research of psychedelic drugs for decades as the West sought to turn LSD into a weapon.

©2024 Norman Ohler (P)2024 W.F.Howes Ltd

Fascinating piece of history. Terrible voices.

Possibly the worst narration in the hundred audiobooks I’ve listened to. It’s halfway to a bad dramatisation or radio play. Stereotypical voices based on race and culture. Shocking in places