Here’s a simple–or should we say simplistic?–line of political reasoning: communities are made of people; people can either be sick or healthy; communities, therefore, are sick or healthy depending on the sickness or health of their people. This logic is powerful. It explains success: “We lost the war because we, individually and therefore communally, were i ... Show More
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Timothy Manion, "Why Barbarossa Failed: Germany and Russia in the Second World War" (Helion, 2026)
Why did Operation Barbarossa fail? For more than eight decades, historians have offered one dominant answer: Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union was doomed from the outset. Vast distances, brutal weather, weak logistics and the overwhelming industrial power of the Red Arm ... Show More
1h 52m
Mar 15
Alec Ryrie, "The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It" (Reaktion, 2025)
Examining everything from popular novels to politics, an investigation of persistent fascination with Nazis—and where it might take us. We live in an age where Hitler and the Nazis dominate our cultural imagination, shaping values once defined by religion. Historian Alec Ryrie ex ... Show More
53m 34s
Mar 10
Caroline Sharples, "The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History" (Yale UP, 2026)
Adolf Hitler has taken a long time to die, despite the lethal efficiency of the gun he put to his head in April 1945. Although eagerly anticipated around the world, there were no available witnesses to his suicide—and his corpse was not put on display. This created the perfect va ... Show More
45m 2s
Jan 2024
408. The Nazis in Power: Hitler's Dream (Part 5)
“We must have a healthy people to dominate in the world”.
In July 1933, Hitler’s Nazi party passed a new law for the compulsory sterilisation of anyone with a physical disability, or “congenital feeble-mindedness”. They claimed this was scientifically sound, and for the moral and ... Show More
53m 8s
Dec 2022
Bad Blood - 1. You’ve Got Good Genes
In this 6-part series, we follow the story of eugenics from its origins in the middle-class salons of Victorian Britain, through the Fitter Family competitions and sterilisation laws of Gilded Age USA, to the full genocidal horrors of Nazi Germany. Episode 1: You’ve Got Good Gene ... Show More
29m 28s
Nov 2015
Nicholas Stargardt, “The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945” (Basic Books, 2015)
In all of the thousands upon thousands of books written about Nazi Germany, it’s easy to lose track of some basic questions. What did Germans think they were fighting for? Why did they support the war? How did they (whether the they were soldiers fighting in France or Russia, wom ... Show More
1h 10m
Aug 2016
Comment la demi-finale de l'Euro a réconcilié Philippe avec son histoire familiale
<p>Philippe est un fana de foot depuis tout gamin. Mais quand le 7 juillet dernier, pendant l'Euro, la France l'a emporté sur l’Allemagne, ce n'était pas juste un match de plus qui se jouait pour lui. C'était son histoire familiale. Et un match qu'il attendait depuis plus de 30 a ... Show More
29m 58s
Jan 2021
#162 Thomas d’Ansembourg : quel sens pour les jeunes ?
<p>Anne Ghesquière reçoit dans Métamorphose Thomas d’Ansembourg. Ancien avocat devenu écrivain, psychothérapeute et formateur en Communication Non Violente (CNV), il propose depuis plus de 20 ans un travail de connaissance de soi, d’écoute et d’empathie. Il pose ce postulat en ti ... Show More
1h 2m