Norman Ohler

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German writer and journalist, author of Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich and Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age.

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war 14

The order to stop the tanks outside Dunkirk threw away a complete victory over Britain: the whole British military was encircled and got out.
British intelligence dropped its plans to assassinate Hitler because a drugged, malfunctioning Hitler was better for Britain than whoever would replace him.

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Europe 13

British intelligence dropped its plans to assassinate Hitler because a drugged, malfunctioning Hitler was better for Britain than whoever would replace him.
Hitler's decision to attack the West was ideological and irrational, and his own high command planned a coup in November 1939 to stop him ordering it.

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Addiction 2

Hitler went into opioid withdrawal in the bunker because British bombers had destroyed the Merck factory that made his drug.
The decision to split the German forces away from Moscow was taken by a Hitler who had just been given his first intravenous opioid, and that is probably why Moscow never fell.

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psychedelics 2

LSD was made illegal because the head of MKUltra wanted to own it, not because anyone thought it was dangerous.
LSD has a Nazi past nobody thinks about: Sandoz shipped its precursor to Hitler's chief biochemist in 1943, and it was probably used in Dachau.

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Russia 2

The decision to split the German forces away from Moscow was taken by a Hitler who had just been given his first intravenous opioid, and that is probably why Moscow never fell.
The main opponent of the German soldier was not the British, French or Russian soldier but fatigue, and the army's physiologist set out to defeat it chemically.

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