Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
It was nice tasting and had some sugar in it.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
And I read through all of the, you know, ingredients of the, there were different types and never, there's never methamphetamine in it.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
Okay.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
There was an SS doctor, Schenk, and he claimed that Morel made special vitamultin in his lab with meth in it.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
But I think he just made that up.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
Okay.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
There was never any proof of that.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
No, meth for him was just for the foot soldiers, you know.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
I mean, he didn't even talk about meth.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
This is nothing that concerned him, you know.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
This is something that makes you function.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
Maybe he signed, I mean, it went over his desk, the stimulant decree, but I don't know if he really read it or understood it.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
I mean, he probably knew Pervitin because everyone knew it.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
And maybe, you know, they discussed it, but they would probably also not...
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
I mean, there's a point when there's a conflict about methamphetamine in the army.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
This is when the secretary of health of the German government, the Nazi government, Conti, he starts writing to the army and he says, you must stop this.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
This is against Nazi ideology.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
But the army basically doesn't listen to him and keeps on using meth all the way to the end.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
So maybe that guy, Conti, maybe he discussed this with Hitler.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#481 β Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
But also Hitler never, you know, if Hitler would have said we stopped the methamphetamine, it probably would have stopped.