• Episode 131: Sir Richard Evans - How the Nazis Rose to Power

  • Nov 29 2024
  • Length: 58 mins
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Episode 131: Sir Richard Evans - How the Nazis Rose to Power

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  • Sir Richard Evans is a historian, and the author of many books, including The Third Reich Trilogy, The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815–1914, and Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich, which is the primary focus of this conversation.

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    (00:00) Intro

    (01:00) The young Hitler

    (04:11) The Nazis were conservative, middle class Germans

    (10:20) How Hitler rose, his talents as a speaker

    (19:52) The Reichstag Fire and The Enabling Act

    (27:57) The romantic and personal life of Hitler

    (31:39) Hitler's romantic interest in Joseph Goebbels's wife

    (35:52) Demythologizing the Nazis: a story of Himmler in the sauna

    (39:27) "Ordinary Men" by Christopher R. Browning

    (44:50) The story of Dr. Karl Brandt

    (49:34) Why history and studying the Nazis matters

    (52:19) Threats to freedom and democracy in the modern world

    (54:22) Donald Trump is not a fascist
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