Norman Ohler
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Podcast Appearances
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Also, like he would write, he would type letters writing to the company of Temmler, how fast they could produce stuff, in which time.
So you have all these original documents.
You have like 500 documents and it goes like, he writes like reports what happened in this battle on methamphetamine.
Like there's a lot of stuff you can find in the archives if you find them.
But
The tricky thing is that you can only look... You kind of look at a so-called find book.
In the find book, you cannot type in drugs.
It wouldn't find anything because at the time when they were...
taking all the notes from this doctor, his war diary, everything.
They didn't put the label drugs there.
They put the label, his name, his position, World War II, French campaign, stuff like that.
So because at the time they didn't know that I would at one point come and look for drugs in that, you know, but he was the drug guy, but also they didn't realize he was the drug guy.
You know, no one realized that he was the drug guy.
So it's not easy to find stuff in the archives.
So the archives, it's a Kafkaesque experience.
You go into this building,
And you have to understand the rules and you will never fully understand what's going on.
Also, the archivists, they don't really know what's going on because there's so many documents.
No one's read them all.