…of drug use in the Third Reich. It covers the the strategic military use of methamphetamine by the Nazis as well as by Hitler himself. And at this point, it is now sort of Somewhat common knowledge, people talk about this as an interesting factoid about…

…historical reality that this occurred that is typically not appreciated. By any chance, have you seen this book by Ron Rosenbaum, Explaining Hitler? Do you know this book? No, I have not. I think you really like it. Yeah, it's an amazing book. And the…

…I should have probably read it from my book. But it's not what it sounds like. It's not a book explaining Hitler. It's a book... people's attempts to explain Hitler so he travels around the world and interviews different Hitler explainers about their…

…book. But it's not what it sounds like. It's not a book explaining Hitler. It's a book... people's attempts to explain Hitler so he travels around the world and interviews different Hitler explainers about their Hitler explanations and so it's like a sort…

…book explaining Hitler. It's a book... people's attempts to explain Hitler so he travels around the world and interviews different Hitler explainers about their Hitler explanations and so it's like a sort of meta-analysis of human explanation for evil and so…

…It's a book... people's attempts to explain Hitler so he travels around the world and interviews different Hitler explainers about their Hitler explanations and so it's like a sort of meta-analysis of human explanation for evil and so there's a person who's…

…could have been some kind of rational seat of his anti-semitism or maybe the people that are obsessed with the possibility that Hitler only had one testicle and maybe it's the the monarchid madness of his testicular abnormality that made him who he was…

…the the monarchid madness of his testicular abnormality that made him who he was and The whole premise of this book explaining Hitler is, you know, the director, Claude Lanzmann, who made Shoah. So he had this philosophy that the very act of explaining…

…Hitler is, you know, the director, Claude Lanzmann, who made Shoah. So he had this philosophy that the very act of explaining Hitler and the Holocaust was, in his words... an obscenity that in the act of explanation, you trivialize and minimize the horror.…

…explanation, you trivialize and minimize the horror. And so you shouldn't even attempt to explain it. And this massive book explaining Hitler is kind of this maximalist response to Like Claude Lanzmann says, it's an obscenity to ask why we'll all spend a…

…it isn't true. Obviously, it is true. But my concern is that people will say amphetamine, therefore the Nazis, therefore Hitler, therefore the Holocaust. How do you draw the line? Because people are using amphetamine today. People used amphetamine around the…

…of explaining. And I think Don DeLillo also makes kind of fun of it in Mao, too, which is said in the Department of Hitler Studies in some American university. Oh, in White Noise. Yeah, it's in White Noise. Yeah. And I actually did not try to explain…

…Noise. Yeah. And I actually did not try to explain anything in a way. And I also didn't... Well, I mean, I describe like Hitler being totally fucked up on opioids on like October 22nd, 1943, because you have records for that day. So, you know, he was…

…doesn't change the narrative. It's totally the same narrative. The Nazis are the Nazis and they lost the war because Hitler was, you know, it's not a different story, but... By talking about the methamphetamine, not just amphetamine, methamphetamine. Well, I…

…strategy is developed by three tank generals. They were kind of the crazy tank generals. And they have a breakfast meeting with Hitler on February 17th and they tell him we're going to go through the Ardennes mountains. That's the only way we can win.…

…on February 17th and they tell him we're going to go through the Ardennes mountains. That's the only way we can win. And Hitler loves this crazy idea, but then they kind of, you know, scratch their heads. How can we actually make it happen? And at…

…of their Nazi ideology, their racist ideology. And there's no connection with that ideology with drugs, like it was not that like Hitler was on drugs, and then he wrote Mein Kampf. Like the whole Nazi ideology comes has nothing really to do with drugs.…

…beer hall, which they actually came from the fucking beer hall. Um, they came from the beer hall. They were all drunk, except Hitler who never drank. Apparently I kind of do make it clear in my book that my description doesn't excuse. the crimes because…

…in Germany. You always get back to the stupid Nazis. But I mean, my father, he was born in 43. So he's actually born while Hitler was still Chancellor of Germany. So it's a very German story in a way, this family story, because it does go back to the…

…kind of examining these things. I think they do play a role, but I mean, they are a little bit more complex than Hitler shooting Oxycontin and deciding to have a second Ardennes offensive. So it's a different book. And I don't think LSD was so…