Behind the Bastards

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  • There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.
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  • Part Two: Alfred Hugenberg: The Elon Musk of Weimar Germany

    Part Two: Alfred Hugenberg: The Elon Musk of Weimar Germany
    Apr 10 2025

    World War 1 has begun, and Robert walks Amanda through how Alfred Hugenberg bought up the German media to make the case the the war should go on for ever, and then how he backed the Nazi party and ushered Hitler into power when that didn't go well for some reason.

    Sources:

    1. The Pan German League by Barry Jackisch
    2. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/hitler-oligarchs-hugenberg-nazi/681584/
    3. The Fateful Alliance by Hermann Beck
    4. https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/weimar-germany/
    5. https://corporatecitizen.in/issue3/corporate-history-mercedes-was-hitler%E2%80%99s-idea.html
    6. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-75512-5_1
    7. https://www.topfundsoehne.de/ts/en/site/history/index.html
    8. https://archive.org/details/alfredhugenbergr0000leop/page/11/mode/1up

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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • Part One: Alfred Hugenberg: The Elon Musk of Weimar Germany

    Part One: Alfred Hugenberg: The Elon Musk of Weimar Germany
    Apr 8 2025

    Robert sits down with Amanda Montell to talk about Alfred Hugenberg, a German industrialist who made Hitler's rise to power possible for some very familiar reasons.

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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

    It Could Happen Here Weekly 176
    Apr 5 2025
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