Norman Ohler is a historian and author of &#8220;Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich,&#8221; a book that investigates the role of psychoactive drugs, particularly stimulants such as methamphetamine, in the military history of World War II. It is a book that two legendary historians Ian Kershaw and Antony Beevor give very high praise for its depth of research. Norman also wrote &#8220;Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age&#8221;, and he is working on a new book &#8220;Stoned Sapiens&#8221; looking at the history of human civilization through the lens of drugs.
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Norman&#8217;s Website: <a href="https://www.normanohler.de">https://www.normanohler.de</a>
Norman&#8217;s books: <a href="https://amzn.to/46uNS18">https://amzn.to/46uNS18</a>
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) &#8211; Introduction
(01:09) &#8211; Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections
(09:00) &#8211; Drugs in post-WWI Germany
(19:18) &#8211; Nazi rise to power
(23:45) &#8211; Hitler&#8217;s drug use
(29:37) &#8211; Response to historian criticism
(46:16) &#8211; Pervitin
(1:00:15) &#8211; Blitzkrieg and meth
(1:18:52) &#8211; Erwin Rommel (Crystal Fox)
(1:23:02) &#8211; Dunkirk
(1:31:06) &#8211; Hitler&#8217;s drug addiction
(1:47:03) &#8211; Methamphetamine
(1:48:57) &#8211; Invasion of Soviet Union
(2:07:54) &#8211; Cocaine
(2:16:49) &#8211; Hitler&#8217;s last days
(2:36:48) &#8211; German resistance against Nazis
(2:58:59) &#8211; Totalitarianism
(3:04:09) &#8211; Stoned Sapiens &#8211; Drugs in human history
(3:19:20) &#8211; Religion
(3:30:09) &#8211; LSD, CIA, and MKUltra
(3:55:39) &#8211; Writing on drugs
(4:08:40) &#8211; Berlin night clubs
(4:19:14) &#8211; Greatest book ever written

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