Norman Ohler
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Podcast Appearances
But still, it's written in a way that it kind of overpowers... It kind of colonializes the story in a weird way.
I never thought about it like that.
But while I was writing it, I was just trying to write it as well as I could.
I didn't think about these questions we're talking about now.
I just...
I got carried away, obviously, but I never left the area of facts.
I never thought of going to the archives.
And my girlfriend at the time, she said, you have to go to the archives.
And she's an academic.
So she, and I was like, yeah, okay, I'll go.
I'm fine.
I'll check it out.
And then when I met a historian, he claims that without methamphetamine, there would be no Blitzkrieg victory of Germany.
Like he's monocausal.
Mm-hmm.
But he was also extremely helpful to me.
And he's an academic.
He gave me the signatures, it's called in German, where you find stuff in the archives.
Signatures like, then it's like H2 slash 538, something like this.
And these were the files of Professor Ranke.