Norman Ohler

They discussed this in the old-fashioned terms.

And Hitler was seeing like they do not protect their flanks.

What if the British come from the north?

This is terrible.

Like militarily, they were already fighting World War II while Hitler was still fighting World War I. And especially the Allies, they were still fighting World War I.

But the tank generals on meth or the tank generals without meth, the tank generals per se, they were fighting a new type of war.

And Hitler then got a visit from Göring, the head of the Air Force, the Luftwaffe.

And Göring was a morphinist.

That is very well documented.

He was on morphine.

He was high as a kite most of the time.

And that comes with losing touch with reality, I would say, or at least it, it changes your grip on reality.

You know, maybe you're still a good decision maker, but it could lead to, you know, if you're intoxicated, let's say you're writing and you're intoxicated, you think it's great, but the next day you read it as shit, you know?

So,

Göring was using morphine in the morning, then met Hitler at the Felsennest, which was Hitler's headquarters to command the Western campaign, the Felsennest.

And Göring said to him,

if the army generals are now going to take Dunkirk, then basically the army has won this campaign.

And that will give army high command, which is already against you, because they were, you know.

For them, Hitler was always like the kleine Gefreiter, like the small kind of regular army guy, because that's what Hitler had been in the First World War.

And now suddenly he was the big...