Norman Ohler

Hitler can only be imagined or understood in a way as the drugs.

Hitler without drugs is unthinkable for me.

And he was the drug guy.

You cannot separate this.

So Hitler was a self-destructive personality and National Socialism is a self-destructive movement.

That's why I said I think the Germans would have lost in any case, except if there was this perfect Hitler, which is theoretically impossible.

I mean, what you described as this feeling of superiority and conquering countries, that was basically what the Wehrmacht, the high command, that's what they were going for.

Yeah.

And they wanted to eliminate Hitler in the Operation Valkyrie, not because they thought he's an evil guy, he's killing the Jews or, you know, they wanted to eliminate him because he was not this effective decision maker anymore that they needed to win the war or to end it in a different way.

And, um,

I spoke with Anthony Beaver once about the attempt of British intelligence to assassinate Hitler.

And he had seen some evidence that at a point in time they dropped those plans because they knew

that drugged hitler or malfunctioning hitler which he was after you know the summer of 1943 it is better for britain than you know killing hitler and then having to deal with like some kind of you know maybe the army would have taken over the country and that would have been more uncomfortable for great britain than having this having the continuation of the degenerating maniac

It's quite well documented because people at the time were keeping diaries and writing about it, writing about the experiences.

Also, Morel wrote quite a bit what happened in the bunker.

One thing that changed was that Oikodal was not available anymore.

So the drug that Hitler actually had become physically addicted to was suddenly not available anymore.

This had to do with the bombardment of the Merck company, the factory in December 1944.

British bombers destroyed the production facilities and

And Morel, there's a report of Morel, the overweight person,