June 2019 Acorn TV Calendar

Monday, June 3rd

BLITZED: Nazis on Drugs (Documentary, Exclusive U.S./Canada Premiere)

Narrated by acting legend Steven Berkoff (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), this absorbing new documentary shines an extraordinary light on the Nazis' experimentation with drugs in World War II. Hitler received drug cocktails from his personal physician Theodor Morell and German troops received methamphetamine pills called Pervitin. How might these drugs have affected the outcome of the war and how did Hitler's health change from his daily injections? (1 hour)