Norman Ohler

Methamphetamine is still being used.

And Ranke discovered this.

He had everything in front of him.

And Poland was beaten.

And then Hitler wanted to attack the West.

And the West was a different story than Poland because the West was...

The world empire of Great Britain combined with La Grande Armée, the strongest army in the world, the French army.

These two combined, you know, how can you win that?

Poland, they could overpower.

They had, you know, better army than Poland.

But is the German Wehrmacht really better than both of these armies combined?

His officers didn't think so.

High command said, no, we're not going to attack the West.

We're going to lose.

And Hitler was fanatic about it.

He really wanted to attack it.

They were planning a coup against him in November 1939 just to prevent him ordering the attack on the West because it would have been a catastrophe for Germany.

Because they really cared.

If you're a high command, you don't want to start a war that you're going to lose.

Very bad.