Lex Fridman: belief

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…He thought the book was very successful because a lot of right-wing people bought it, but that’s not… it’s simply not true. I think your book did a masterful job of never making itself amenable to that kind of narrative. To the contrary, I got an angry letter by a German army employee, quite a high officer and a military historian, and he said that I… he also thought I overemphasized the drug use of methamphetamine in the Western campaign because he said the German army was just so good, and you kind of diminish their capability by saying they were only so good because they took methamphetamine. I thought that was kind of funny because the Wehrmacht doesn’t exist anymore, and the new German… the current German army is called the Bundeswehr, and historically, they’re not supposed to be connected. Like, there was a clear cut, but he still felt that I was kind of hurting the pride of the Wehrmacht.…

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