Lex Fridman Podcast #481 · September 19, 2025 · 3h

Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA

Norman Ohler — author of Blitzed. The Third Reich was fueled by methamphetamine. German soldiers took Pervitin (crystal meth) for Blitzkrieg campaigns. Hitler's personal doctor kept him on a cocktail of drugs including opioids, cocaine, and hormones. The pharmacological history of WW2.

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Highlights

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The Blitzkrieg was pharmacologically enhanced

Ohler: German soldiers took 35 million doses of Pervitin (methamphetamine) in the first months of the war. Blitzkrieg was partly a drug-fueled strategy.

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Hitler was a drug addict by 1943

Hitler's personal physician Dr. Morell injected him with increasingly extreme drug cocktails — opioids, cocaine, hormones, animal extracts.

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