Norman Ohler

No one knows.

There's history kind of lying there, somehow organized, somehow stored.

I mean, it does sound like a very Kafkaesque thing.

But it's great if you find something.

But you can also sit there for a week and not find anything.

Well, I have a friend, he's a DJ, and we talked about Berlin.

We'll probably talk about it more.

And he takes a lot of drugs.

And he knows his... Let's put it that way, he knows his drugs.

And one day he said to me when I was trying to figure out what I would write about next, he said, the Nazis took a lot of drugs, you should write about that.

And I said, the Nazis didn't take drugs.

Because, you know, when you grow up in Germany, you get...

educated about the Nazis quite intensely, especially in West Germany.

Like they teach you everything, but they don't teach you drugs.

I mean, now they do, maybe, you know, but it was not known.

And the Nazis always had this aura of being law and order, no drugs, of course, no chaos, everything.

My grandfather, he was a Nazi, always said, well, at least there was discipline in the country, there was law and order.

So this doesn't match with drugs, you know?

I didn't believe him, but I said, it's a great topic.

Maybe I could invent it.