Jan 31
Peter H. Wilson, "Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500" (Harvard UP, 2023)
German military history is typically viewed as an inexorable march to the rise of Prussia and the two world wars, the road paved by militarism and the result a specifically German way of war. Peter Wilson challenges this narrative. Looking beyond Prussia to German-speaking Europe ... Show More
1 h
Jan 30
Tom Menger, "The Colonial Way of War: Violence and Colonial Warfare in the British, German and Dutch Empires, c. 1890-1914" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
The violence of colonial wars between 1890 and 1914 is often thought to have been uniquely shaped by the nature of each of the European empires. The Colonial Way of War: Violence and Colonial Warfare in the British, German and Dutch Empires, c. 1890-1914 (Cambridge UP, 2025) argu ... Show More
1h 2m
Jan 27
Duy Lap Nguyen, "Walter Benjamin and the Critique of Political Economy: A New Historical Materialism" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Walter Benjamin was a German-Jewish intellectual and philosopher associated with the Frankfurt School, who tragically died at 48 years old in 1940 as he fled the advance of the Third Reich on the French-Spanish border. Most writers and critics see Benjamin’s work as fragmented, d ... Show More
38m 19s
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
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
