Norman Ohler
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I mean, it is a drug, but we don't think of it as a drug.
You know, it's legal.
And this was kind of how meth was treated in Germany.
It was normal to use it.
Like you had a very important business meeting.
Of course, you would take a pavitin.
There's a movie by Billy Wilder called One, Two, Three.
Very good movie.
And he shows the American executive.
The movie said right after the end of the Second World War.
So we see like, I think it's a Coca-Cola executive, American.
And he says to his secretary,
How should I have the morning coffee?
I think half of a pavitin.
So pavitin was also normal.
It wasn't stigmatized.
It was not the American just say no propaganda where your teeth fall out.
I mean, it was a German quality product.
People liked it.
Of course, they did tests at universities, but most of them were quite positive.