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Published · transcript-backedNorman Ohler: belief
19 Sept 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #481 – Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
“I think his hatred for the French was very, very deep. He really, he really wanted to go to war with them.”
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- Norman Ohler
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- belief
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- 19 Sept 2025
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…Can you just briefly give a sense of, do you think this is genius or insanity on Hitler’s part to think that he can take on probably what’s perceived to be the most powerful military in the world, which is the French military, or at least in Europe? I think his hatred for the French was very, very deep. He really, he really wanted to go to war with them. It was an ideological, irrational decision. That’s why he was not… He didn’t hate the empire. He kind of looked down, he admired it and looked down on it. You mean the British Empire?…
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