The wartime SAS and Hitler’s drug addiction

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🗓️ 10 November 2016

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Author and broadcaster Ben Macintyre details the extraordinary activities of the Special Air Service in the fight against the Axis, based on research for his new authorised history. Meanwhile, we speak to the German writer Norman Ohler whose sensational book Blitzed highlights the astonishing extent of drug use in the Third Reich Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.1	Courage comes in many, many different forms.
0:40.8	They are not all of them obvious.
0:43.4	They're not always the ability to go onto a battlefield and kill people.
0:46.7	There are people in this story who exhibit bravery of a very different sort,
0:51.6	some of whom do it unarm.
0:53.1	That was Ben McIntyre discussing the SAS in the Second World War.
0:57.9	Hitler used drugs to keep his tunnel vision and to stay on track.
1:04.0	And this staying on track at one point became a problem for the Nazi war effort
1:08.4	because staying on track meant the downfall and meant
1:12.1	total defeat.
1:14.2	And that was Norman Orla, talking about the use of drugs in the Third Reich.
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