Norman Ohler

To examine how it actually started is a very complex story, and there's many factors to it.

But Versailles just said it was Germany's fault, and then Germany had to do all these payments to the Allies.

It couldn't create a new economy.

It couldn't have a new army.

So the economy really went down.

Everything in Berlin was cheap, and the people were using also money.

substances that were very cheap in huge quantities.

So while in Bavaria, they were drinking alcohol and alcohol in the brain

stimulates behavior, a group behavior, us against them.

You can actually examine this as a neuroscientist would know exactly how this works.

While in Berlin, the drugs that were used were morphium, there was cocaine, there was mescaline, there was ether.

So people were experimenting.

Everyone developed a different mindset.

It was all, you know, you didn't behave in a way

that some kind of authority would like you to behave in, because the authority had just lost the First World War, and there was no real authority in Berlin.

People were doing whatever they wanted to do, and they were intoxicating themselves in the way they wanted to do it.

So the population, in a way, if you just look at Munich and Berlin, was growing apart.

There were the alcohol people in Munich, the Nazis, and then there were these weird, diverse people

LGBTQ, whatever, scene in Berlin, like actresses sniffing ether in the morning and then making crazy moves.

All of these factors come together.