#481 - Norman Ohler

19 Sep 2025

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #481:

1. Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler
2. Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age by Norman Ohler
3. The Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany’s Resistance Against the Nazis by Norman Ohler
4. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
5. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
6. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
7. Books by Fyodor Dostoevsky
8. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
9. Ulysses by James Joyce
10. The Stranger by Albert Camus
11. Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Norman Ohler is a German author, novelist, and screenwriter, best known for his popular history book Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich, which has been published in over 30 languages. Wikipedia.

• https://www.normanohler.de
• https://x.com/normanohler
• https://www.instagram.com/normanohler/
• https://www.youtube.com/@Norman-Ohler
• https://substack.com/@stonedsapiens

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