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WW2: Drugs in Nazi Germany

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4929 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Norman Ohler joins to discuss the rampant drug use in Nazi Germany. NORMAN OHLER is an award-winning German novelist, screenwriter, and journalist. He spent five years researching Blitzed in numerous archives in Germany and the United States and spoke to eye-witnesses, military historians, and doctors. He is also the author of the novels Die Quotenmaschine (the world’s first hypertext novel), Mitte and Stadt des Goldes (translated into English as Ponte City). He was co-writer of the script for Wim Wenders’ film Palermo Shooting. Originally Published on 10/17/2018 ATTENTION - Help your brothers out and fill this feedback survey out. You can win a $500 Amazon gift card. Who wouldn't like that? www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave. Support us on Patreon – https://www.patreon.com/brohistory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.0

What's going on guys?

0:31.0

Welcome to another episode of Bro history. It's Henry's

0:34.5

of Moa and before we get started I do have a couple of announcements to make.

0:37.8

If you're listening right now that means, well I guess right now is whenever you're

0:42.4

listening, but if you're listening to it, this about five days within this coming out,

0:48.0

that means I'm currently traveling. I'm going to be in France, Italy, Spain, England, and Scotland in the great Bush Gardens

0:56.2

of Williamsburg, Virginia.

0:57.3

Yes, I'm going to Bush Gardens.

0:59.2

I'm going to Virginia Beach for a week, so I won't have time to record.

1:06.0

However, we have some really good archive episodes that we wanted to slowly release

1:11.0

in situations like this and this one is definitely one of our best

1:14.3

ones we had a chance to speak to Norman Oler and we did a podcast on Drugs in the Third Reich.

1:21.0

Norman Oler is an author he He's a German-born author, New York Times

1:25.6

bestseller. He wrote a book called Blitz and the book is basically about how Hitler

1:30.6

was all drugged up on Adderall and so was arrested a third Reich.

1:34.0

And it was really interesting. We get into some juicy details about Hitler's a doctor who

1:39.3

was basically a doctor feel good. So I think most of you guys haven't heard this. So we're going to be

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