Norman Ohler

Wonder weapons were basically mini submarines, one or two people going in, staying underwater for up to a week and torpedoing, you know, allied ships.

So the Navy was trying to develop a drug that would keep you awake and combat ready for seven days and seven nights without sleep and without, you know, burning out.

Very difficult to find.

So they hired a penalty unit in the concentration camp.

They hired...

The SS had the so-called shoe walking unit.

It was a penalty unit in the concentration camp, testing shoe soles for the German shoe industry, walking for like days.

And then they would measure like how the soles, you know, kept up in the stress.

And they had different layers in the concentration camp, like all the surfaces that German soldiers would touch when they conquer Europe.

So this is a very elaborate thing, you know, and if you go to the concentration camp today, it's a museum, you can still see that running track of the shoe runners unit.

So the Navy hired the shoe runners unit from the SS, paid them money, and then gave them drugs, different kinds of drug combinations, methamphetamine combined with cocaine and in a chewing gum and like all kinds of things.

So this is a

This is a big thing, you know, and there's documents to it.

And Mommsen, who knew everything about National Socialism, the old, you know, authority.

I'm like the young, like, I didn't study history.

I just, you know, I just try to make sense, you know, but I present him all these documents.

He's reading like from this pill patrol.

And he said, wow.

He said, we historians, we never do drugs.

We don't understand drugs.