Norman Ohler

We missed this.

So he was very clear that we missed this.

And he said this is actually the missing link that historians did not have, especially to explain Hitler's degeneration as a leader.

He made very good decisions.

good in meaning militarily effective decisions in the beginning of the war and very bad decisions for the German war effort towards the end.

And you can link that to drugs.

You can explain a lot of Hitler through the drugs, but you can also look at this point that historians so far had not been able to

to figure out basically what happened to hitler why did he get crazy and i mean he was crazy or he was but why did he get so bad as a leader because he was very effective for a long time and then there's this moment where it where it turns yeah the degeneration of decision making psychology behavior all of that you cannot understand that fully without understanding his drug use

I think he's absolutely right that you shouldn't argue in a monocausal way.

And this is actually what Momsen also said to me, because of course I was enthusiastic about all my drug findings.

And he said, don't argue in a monocausal way.

So that sentence of his, don't argue in a monocausal way, that always stayed with me.

And I think that I didn't deviate from that path, actually.

But it was still interesting that Evans...

thought that I put too much emphasis on the drugs.

I think it's a totally fine opinion.

I would disagree.

Otherwise, I wouldn't have written the book.

What I can state here is that I invented nothing.

In all of my three nonfiction books, nothing is invented.