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Norman Ohler on Lex Fridman: How 35M Meth Doses Won France

Pervitin prescribed to the full Ardennes force kept troops awake for three days; Ohler traces Hitler's erratic late-war choices to Dr. Morell's drugs.

Norman OhlerguestLex Fridmanhost
Sep 19, 20254h 25mWatch on YouTube ↗

CHAPTERS

  1. 0:00 – 2:09

    Episode highlight

  2. 2:09 – 3:31

    Introduction

  3. 3:31 – 13:49

    Drugs in post-WWI Germany

  4. 13:49 – 18:16

    Nazi rise to power

  5. 18:16 – 24:08

    Hitler's drug use

  6. 24:08 – 40:47

    Response to historian criticism

  7. 40:47 – 54:46

    Pervitin

  8. 54:46 – 1:13:23

    Blitzkrieg and meth

  9. 1:13:23 – 1:17:34

    Erwin Rommel (Crystal Fox)

  10. 1:17:34 – 1:25:37

    Dunkirk

  11. 1:25:37 – 1:41:34

    Hitler's drug addiction

  12. 1:41:34 – 1:43:29

    Methamphetamine

  13. 1:43:29 – 2:02:26

    Invasion of Soviet Union

  14. 2:02:26 – 2:11:21

    Cocaine

  15. 2:11:21 – 2:31:20

    Hitler's last days

  16. 2:31:20 – 2:53:31

    German resistance against Nazis

  17. 2:53:31 – 2:58:40

    Totalitarianism

  18. 2:58:40 – 3:13:52

    Stoned Sapiens - Drugs in human history

  19. 3:13:52 – 3:24:41

    Religion

  20. 3:24:41 – 3:50:10

    LSD, CIA, and MKUltra

  21. 3:50:10 – 4:03:12

    Writing on drugs

  22. 4:03:12 – 4:13:45

    Berlin night clubs

  23. 4:13:45 – 4:25:44

    Greatest book ever written

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