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Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Fry.

And I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

Hey, for obvious reasons, I have been thinking about people in military gear being very, very aggressive a lot.

I hate it. Yeah.

Hate it so much. That made me think about a topic that I've sort of had on a back burner for a while and been like, how do I tiptoe around this one and like really get into it?

Because there are a lot of opinions within the history space about it.

That is the use of very powerful stimulants during World War II, particularly among the Wermacht.

That's the Nazi German military forces.

Listen, I'm not accusing anybody of using anything. I'm not saying anything is happening.

I'm just saying it reminded me of that. Seeing aggressive behavior of people in uniforms reminds me of

films I have seen of weirdly aggressive behavior of people in uniforms.

So in 2015, this whole topic really exploded in the consciousness of a lot of historians

that particularly are interested in World War II because a non-historian writer named

Norman Oler, who is German, published a book that was titled, Dertotal Hausch.

I probably said that very poorly.

But that means the total rush.

And it was about drug use in Nazi Germany, specifically in the military, as well as in the civilian population.

And that book was translated into English.

It was published in 2017 as blitzed drugs in Nazi Germany.

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