Norman Ohler

That is important to them because the only intoxication they allow from now on in Germany is the Nazi intoxication, is the ideological intoxication.

So they quickly install concentration camps, which were at the time run by the SR, not the SS, takes over later and turns the concentration camps into an industry.

The first SR concentration camps were in cellars in Berlin or in the countryside.

And some of the first people that landed in these cellars and were disciplined were drug users.

Also anti-Semitic policies, which were...

very important from day one for the Nazis.

Antisemitism is the defining pillar of National Socialism, the core of it, really.

They quickly connected anti-drug policies with anti-Semitic policies.

They claimed the Jews in Germany, the German Jews, were taking more drugs than the non-Jewish Germans.

And national socialisms...

goal was to purify the German body so they saw the whole folk the country the people as one body and that has to be purified so all Jews are poisoned

But not only Jews, everyone who thinks differently, communists are also poisoned.

Jews are the worst poison, but, you know, a lot of, you know, and then you create this clean body.

And obviously drugs have no position in that.

If you are addicted to drugs, that's weak, you know, you're a morphinist, you use cocaine, that's all degenerate, that's Jewish, that's Jewish doctors are all morphinists, you know.

So that Nazi Germany and Hitler was the shining example of the person who doesn't take drugs.

He didn't have a private life.

He didn't even have a body.

He just...

led the the folks body you know so Hitler was on not putting any poisons into him he stopped smoking cigarettes in the 20s already he never touched alcohol vegetarian vegetarian no caffeine even so he was that's what he was in the beginning story of course changes at a certain point in time but he started as this