Norman Ohler

And Professor Ranke was...

He was the head of the Institute for Army Physiology.

His job was to improve the performance of the soldier.

And all of his stuff was

filed in a certain place in the military archives, which in Germany is in Freiburg in the south, in a small town, not in Berlin because Germany is a bit of a decentralized country.

We don't want to put everything into Berlin again like the Nazis did.

We try to avoid our mistakes.

So the military archive is in Freiburg and I went there

And because I was, I had this signature, immediately I got, you know, original documents that were all relating to my research.

Like I could read, I had the original... What does it look like?

Is it sheets of paper?

Yeah, it's like... So it's not scanned?

Well, it's different things.

Like the guy who did the math into the army, the Professor Ranke, he was...

uh writing a war diary that's what the name was war diary so every day he would write it by hand so this war diary was given to me so you're reading that yeah it's like dated like you have a date yeah the diary it was a bit funny with him because he took a lot of math himself because he thought it was great he just thought it increases your performance um

by now we know a little bit more that methamphetamine is not so healthy because you get used to it and you burn out and you get depressed and then you have to take more.

Big problem.

And he became depressed and burned out and he didn't realize it's because of the meth that he is like describing to the whole German army.

Like he was, he made a convincing case and I can explain that in detail how that actually happened.

But just to have his war diary was great.