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Norman Ohler

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 โ€“ Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA

had a really good time and they were like more active.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 โ€“ Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA

They were talkative because that's what happens on methamphetamine.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 โ€“ Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA

So the company really thought this is a great product and they turned it into a product.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 โ€“ Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA

They went to the patent bureaucracy and got the patent for methamphetamine.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 โ€“ Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA

And then it quite quickly came onto the market.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 โ€“ Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA

It was labeled as Pervitin.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 โ€“ Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA

which is kind of a great name because it has like the perverse already in it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 โ€“ Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA

And this paritin pervertin was available in any pharmacy.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 โ€“ Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA

So you just, you didn't need a prescription.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 โ€“ Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA

A child could go and buy 10 packs of pure methamphetamine.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 โ€“ Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA

So methamphetamine was also very cheap.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 โ€“ Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA

So it became quite popular because people talked about it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 โ€“ Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA

They didn't really know what it was.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 โ€“ Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA

I mean, I also read, I went to the archive of that company also, of course.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 โ€“ Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA

So they were like, what is it good for?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 โ€“ Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA

Like, I just feel great when I take it and I have more energy.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 โ€“ Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA

And they didn't know if that could be a product.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 โ€“ Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA

Like it was 1937, 38 when they were discovering it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 โ€“ Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA

Well, they called it a performance enhancer.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 โ€“ Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA

Is drinking a coffee in the morning a drug?