Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
I totally, I, I thought of a new technique by playing like very high balls, like in the, in the, in the direct, like fierce for competition, I would have lost, but,
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
So I played something that in Germany we call Fudeln, which is something you don't really do.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
You just play high balls, which is not pretty to look at, but it's very effective.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
And he just lost, he just lost his nerve and I beat him like 6-0, 6-0, something like that.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
Sensational.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
So Hitler receives this, this Dolantin injection and he gets up, he goes into the meeting room, he dominates the meeting room.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
He feels great.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
He decides, you know, in front of everybody, no one is able to, no one overpowers him in that meeting.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
He was very good in the room.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
And the troops are split up.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
Like Leningrad is now a target.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
This weakens the general thrust towards Moscow.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
This is probably why they didn't take Moscow.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
They probably could have taken it.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
Or maybe not, you know, but the decision was made in August to... I think it's one of the biggest blunders of the Eastern Front.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
They had the one-time thing, the one-time moment where they could have done it.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
And the German war machine could only win in so-called speed wars, like lightning war, only if they would do it very fast and surprise, because they were always weaker, basically.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
They just had this moment, this dynamic moment.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
And this was fueled by the methamphetamine.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
Also in the Soviet Union, hundreds of millions of dosages were given.