Moudens
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📜 On this day – October 2, 1187: Sultan Salahuddin Ayyubi conquered Jerusalem.











Here's my conversation with Norman Ohler, a historian and author of "Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich," a book that investigates the role of psychoactive drugs, particularly stimulants such as methamphetamine, in the military history of World War II. It is a book that two legendary historians Ian Kershaw and Antony Beevor give very high praise to for its depth of research. This was a fascinating conversation. It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Episode highlight 2:09 - Introduction 3:31 - Drugs in post-WWI Germany 13:49 - Nazi rise to power 18:16 - Hitler's drug use 24:08 - Response to historian criticism 40:47 - Pervitin 54:46 - Blitzkrieg and meth 1:13:23 - Erwin Rommel (Crystal Fox) 1:17:34 - Dunkirk 1:25:37 - Hitler's drug addiction 1:41:34 - Methamphetamine 1:43:29 - Invasion of Soviet Union 2:02:26 - Cocaine 2:11:21 - Hitler's last days 2:31:20 - German resistance against Nazis 2:53:31 - Totalitarianism 2:58:40 - Stoned Sapiens - Drugs in human history 3:13:52 - Religion 3:24:41 - LSD, CIA, and MKUltra 3:50:10 - Writing on drugs 4:03:12 - Berlin night clubs 4:13:45 - Greatest book ever written















