Blitzed

“Then we had Norman Ohler, he wrote um Blitzed? How do I say his last name? Ohler.”

“Did you ever read Blitzed? No. It's a Norman Oler wrote about Hitler marching through Poland and about all the drugs that they were giving.”

“There's a great book. Is it out there? It's in the other room. Yeah, it's in the other room. It's called Blitzed um by um how do you pronounce his name? Norman Oler, right? Oler. Norman Oler, uh, great guest, too. He was amazing.”

“Have you read Norman Oler's book Blitzed? No. It's about Nazis and the use of methamphetamine during the war.”

“Have you ever read Blitzed? No. It's uh Do we have it here still, Jamie? out there. Um Norman Oler Norman Oler wrote this insane book on the ubiquitous use of drugs during the Third Reich and how uh it caused them to go through Poland in three days because they stayed up for three [ __ ] days on”

“it was ‘Blitzed.’ Yes, it's a crazy book. And I had the author in here and he's explaining... this book is nuts.”

“It was uh Blitzed, yes, it's a crazy book”

“that book over there blitzed is all about the use of methamphetamines and the different drugs that they gave their soldiers the guys the front of the line they gave the most meth”

“it's a book that we just read it's called blitzed this dude Norman or her it's all about the Nazis”

“Another great TV show, I've talked about a thousand times, but there's a book that we just read, it's called Blitzed; this dude, Norman, or hurt, it's all about the Nazis. They gave them meth!”

“so uh tripped and blitzed is the other one”

“So, yeah, there's a great book called blitzed. About this...”

“which if you read the book blitzed actually traces the history it was Aderall was developed by Nazi Germany as a tool for Nazi soldiers to be more aggressive”

“I got back here to LA and uh I finished that book Blitzed about the Nazis and uh and Germany and their use of like meth and all of that and basically did all these experiments on people and being like like if you take this drug you don't have to sleep.”

“Anyway, I've been reading this book that I picked up when I was in Chicago and went into this fucking bookstore. Believe it or not, they still have those and reading this book blitzed drugs in the third Reich. Uh, I don't know. I see this guy's name by Norman Oler.”

“I mean, Norman Oler's book, Blitz, I loved those episodes that you did with Yeah. incredible. It's just an incredible story that they they literally went through Poland in three days.”

“So, as Norman Oler writes in Blitz, quote, "So that patient A didn't end up in the sick bay again and fall behind, Morell administered a harder course of prophylactic injections and went on to prescribe more and more remedies in everchanging concentrations.”

“SO, one of the shortcomings of Blitz, and I don't even know if this would have been possible, but it is it is a missing thing, is that Oler doesn't give us a lot of scientific information about how all these weird animal derivative substances would have impacted Hitler's body and mind.”

“Norman Oler quotes one German military doctor at the time who wrote, "I didn't take prevent myself, or at least not often, just once to try it, to know what I was prescribing. I can tell you it worked. It kept you awake mercilessly.”

“It was only when the tide turned against Germany that Prevent became useful again from Blitz. Often the only thing that helped was prevent. One of many examples in the fishing village of Vizvad on the southern shore of Lake uh Lemon between Moscow and Linenrad”

“And so he suddenly loses access to this thing that he's really psychologically addicted to from Blitz. Hitler now missed those ecstasies that his appearances had previously prompted and which had always amounted to a new injection of the pep up feeling that was so important to his self-esteem.”

“And in 2016, a German novelist and a screenwriter, a guy named Norman Oler, published a book, a work of historic non-fiction. In the United States, it was released under the title uh, Blitzed, Drugs in Nazi Germany.”

“And this is I'm starting not kind of the way we normally do by just sort of giving the history, but by talking about this book because it is so prominent. And in the years that I've been doing Behind the Bastards, I've probably had a couple hundred different people email me”

“And this makes his book fairly unique in the field of Nazi studies. The Third Reich is the single most widely studied and written about regime in political history. There are governments on the planet right now who produce less who have produced to date less documentation”

“For example, pervatant, which is the methamphetamine that the Nazis primarily took. Um, a lot of scholars wrote about the use of pervatin by Nazis during the Blitz Creek. Where older broke new ground was in making a detailed study about the personal notes and professional journals”

“you do detailed painstaking analyses of these guys and then um some dude kind of throws out a book that maybe maybe uh exaggerates some things and uses some like flagrant language and and is much more popular than any work by a scholar will ever be that frustrated people.”

“Now, the other half of the controversy around Blitz revolves around some of the more serious issues with the way Oer presents his research. Namely, he suffers from the same problem most people do when they zero in on a very specific aspect of the Nazi regime. He's gotten so into the weeds on this topic”

“No, it's it's a long way of of trying to like give caveats about like what are not saying it's a bad book, but saying it's a good book that I think because he's so focused on the drugs tends to ignore other reasons for some of the behavior that he's outlining that that are not drugs.”

“interesting question just because people can um people can simplify it to the extent that it it gets [ __ ] up, you know, cuz I I I do think this is a fascinating question. Um we're going to be talking a lot about Ol's findings here because I do agree with Ian Kershaw who described it as a serious”

“Um and and this put you know one of the things that I think is is critiqueable at Ol is he when he's talking about drug use in Germany. He focuses heavily on Berlin and the Berlin hella drug use but also Berlin's drug use is in direct contrast to what's going on in the rest of Germany.”

“In Blitzed, Oler cites the lyrics of a contemporary song to set the mood of the time. And I don't know what the tune of this song was, but it's a good song. Once not so very long ago, sweet alcohol, that beast, brought warmth and sweetness to our lives.”

“Now, I will say somewhat ironically, Ol's fless focus on Berlin drug culture, the fact that he zero was in on that so much, kind of focusing less on the rest of Germany, seems to have been heavily influenced by Nazi propaganda, in a way that I think does make his overall work a little less accurate.”

“Um and cocaine consumption is estimated to have peaked in 1927 and fallen afterwards. So this is definitely an area where engages in some counterfactual pros for the sake of making his book more interesting. Um, but that said, his writing does give a decent idea of how the Nazis expressed their rhetoric around drugs.”

“So after 27, drug use of kind of all kinds declines rapidly. And so by the point the Nazis are in power, um there's really not much of a drug problem. And as a result, there's really not much of a drug crackdown. And this is er's main sin in his book as I see it.”

“So, this is again if we're if in terms of critiquing older and this is a big chunk of the early part of his book and it is, you know, there's two parts of this book. There's the part of it where he's doing original research into Hitler's drug use and Hitler's doctor”

“So far I've mostly criticized blitzed uh and it does deserve some criticism. But now we're about to get into what I think the book does very well, which is provide the first really thorough history of a fascinating figure, one of the few high-up Nazis to be mostly ignored by historians, Dr. Theodore Morurell.”

“But right now, I think it's time to get into the meat of Ol's work, which is his portrait of Dr. Morell and the relationship Hitler had with his primary physician. Here's how introduces Morell.”

“The Nazis were so grateful that they gave him and his wife a fancy trip to Venice as a thank you for his discretion. Afterwards, he was invited to dine with the Hoffmans in Munich. Hitler showed up and the group ate all the Nazi leaders and the group all ate the Nazi leader favorite meal.”

“Um, but it is it is likely right that he had something going wrong with his bacterial flora, you know. Um, perhaps because of uh uh you know, his injuries during the war or something. Um, but we now know that like maybe all the shitty food he eats.”

“Now, we don't know when precisely Morell first gave Hitler methamphetamine. The the bad doctor had often uh gave given like he gave again he had like different brand names for his various injections. And while some of his notes were detailed, this wasn't always the case.”

“And I'm going to quote from Blitz here next. Hitler urgently summoned Morell, who hurried along with his case and his syringes and injected the unconscious foreign guest with such a stimulating medication that Hasha rose again within seconds as if from the dead.”

“so his this blitz book is insane because it's a story about how the Nazis were jacked up on meth”

“That book over there, Blitzed, is all about the use of methamphetamines and the different drugs that they gave their soldiers. The guys on the front line, they gave the most meth! They had different dosages!”

“but there's also lots of excitement going on on the non-fiction side of things where Norman olers blitzed hits the list at number 15”

“there's a book called blitzed drugs in the third reich by norman ohler it makes the case that drugs played a very large meth essentially played a very large role in world war ii”

“I just recently finished a book titled 'Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich' by Norman Ohler.”

“which I read a book love called blitzed drugs in the Third Reich that was basically just about how much meth they were all on”

“There's a really good book um I don't remember the name of it. Ohler. Blitzed, yes.”

“I just read "Blitzed", which is this... - Oh, I wanna read that. - Yeah. - How is it. - It was really good. It gives a theory of Nazi Germany and Hitler that so much can be described about Hitler and a lot of the upper echelon of Nazi Germany through the excessive use of drugs.”

“I can't believe I'm bringing it up again but that book over there blitzed is a Norman oler book about the Nazis during um The Blitz GRE campaign they were all on meth all of them”

“uh which if you read the book blitzed um actually uh traces the history it was Aderall was developed by Nazi Germany as a tool for Nazi soldiers to be more aggressive”