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Norman Ohler

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The Bohemians

“I mean, that’s why I wrote the book, “The Bohemians,” because there were a few people in Berlin that didn’t react this way, but they reacted in a different way.”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 19 Sept 2025

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Thomas Mann

“And I like Thomas Mann. I don’t know how well he translates, but in German it’s interesting, his take on how to… It’s funny.”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 19 Sept 2025

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07 / uncertainty

I just think it’s admirable to be brave and not do things that you cannot really justify in front of your own conscience. I don’t know if I would have been so brave.

“I just think it’s admirable to be brave and not do things that you cannot really justify in front of your own conscience. I don’t know if I would have been so brave.”
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Norman Ohler
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

11 / belief

Maybe if you know a friend and the friend asks you, maybe then you could… Maybe I would say to a friend, “Yeah, I think you would be fine taking it.” But even that is a big responsibility, you know, because LSD in German, the book Trip, is called The Strongest Substance, and it is actually the strongest substance because it works in microgram dosages.

“Maybe if you know a friend and the friend asks you, maybe then you could… Maybe I would say to a friend, “Yeah, I think you would be fine taking it.” But even that is a big responsibility, you know, because LSD in German, the book Trip, is called The Strongest Substance, and it is actually the strongest substance because it works in microgram dosages.”
Speaker
Norman Ohler
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

14 / belief

Like many British historians, they always know more about German history than the German historians, but Kershaw really does. I think he’s really good.

“Like many British historians, they always know more about German history than the German historians, but Kershaw really does. I think he’s really good.”
Speaker
Norman Ohler
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

15 / evaluation

He never called him by his first name, the father of his wife, because he still had that, you know, he was a Nazi because he was working for the railway. So I wouldn’t excuse… I wouldn’t excuse people actually, and I certainly would not excuse high-ranking politicians that make policies because the genocidal policies that the Nazis developed and the war policies that they developed had nothing to do with drugs.

“He never called him by his first name, the father of his wife, because he still had that, you know, he was a Nazi because he was working for the railway. So I wouldn’t excuse… I wouldn’t excuse people actually, and I certainly would not excuse high-ranking politicians that make policies because the genocidal policies that the Nazis developed and the war policies that they developed had nothing to do with drugs.”
Speaker
Norman Ohler
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

16 / evaluation

People like communists wouldn’t use it, even though communists are in many ways quite similar to the right wing, especially back then. But it was used by right-wingers, and Hitler didn’t mind because people who are drunk are more susceptible to right-wing populism, I would claim now here, and Hitler would agree.

“People like communists wouldn’t use it, even though communists are in many ways quite similar to the right wing, especially back then. But it was used by right-wingers, and Hitler didn’t mind because people who are drunk are more susceptible to right-wing populism, I would claim now here, and Hitler would agree.”
Speaker
Norman Ohler
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

17 / evaluation

I think Hitler was like that. And it’s hard to be like that actually, and I think that gave him an attraction inside the movement to all the drunkards, like Goering using morphine all the time because of his pain.

“I think Hitler was like that. And it’s hard to be like that actually, and I think that gave him an attraction inside the movement to all the drunkards, like Goering using morphine all the time because of his pain.”
Speaker
Norman Ohler
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

18 / evaluation

I think he’s absolutely right that you shouldn’t argue in a monocausal way. And this is actually what Mommsen also said to me because, of course, I was enthusiastic about all my drug findings.

“I think he’s absolutely right that you shouldn’t argue in a monocausal way. And this is actually what Mommsen also said to me because, of course, I was enthusiastic about all my drug findings.”
Speaker
Norman Ohler
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

20 / preference

I grew up in West Germany, and this was during the Cold War. And Berlin, the walled-in city, was always like a big fascination because there was a wall, there was actually a wall in the city preventing people from moving into another part.

“I grew up in West Germany, and this was during the Cold War. And Berlin, the walled-in city, was always like a big fascination because there was a wall, there was actually a wall in the city preventing people from moving into another part.”
Speaker
Norman Ohler
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

21 / evaluation

” He hated that. And when the Nazis then were able to take power in 1933, one of the first things they did was to really prosecute people who were taking drugs, because they wanted to, you know, bring everyone back into the fold.

“” He hated that. And when the Nazis then were able to take power in 1933, one of the first things they did was to really prosecute people who were taking drugs, because they wanted to, you know, bring everyone back into the fold.”
Speaker
Norman Ohler
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast
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