Norman Ohler

So the Germans were really going.

And at one point, this ends, you know, you can't take meth for the rest of your life.

You're just going to end up being a nervous wreck.

But you can do it for like two months.

You could do it.

But then it stops.

I think that's also why the tank troops were such a good weapon because they can go off road while military vehicles, cars cannot do it.

Like a tank can even go through a forest and just kill small trees and just run over it.

So those are kind of the five horses.

That was the idea that they had at this working breakfast.

That's what they presented to Hitler.

We're going to use the tank force in a very different way.

And that's going to enable us to win the lightning war campaigns.

That was the first time.

Well, not immediately.

You can see when you study his medications that that is a turning point in a way that now he deviates from the vitamins.

He becomes more interested in what's out there.

And from 41 to 43, he tries out a lot of medications that he didn't try out before.

Before that, it was quite conventional, mostly vitamins and glucose.

But now he becomes experimental and he discusses this with Morel.