logo
episode-header-image
May 2023
43m 50s

Rise to Power: Hitler in Prison & Mein K...

NOISER
About this episode

Adolf Hitler, now a national celebrity, begins his jail term. Besieged by well-wishers, he has faith his time inside will be short. To keep the Nazi flame burning, he decides to write a new book. “Mein Kampf” will one day make Hitler a best-selling author and a multi-millionaire. But how will it be received right now, in the new thriving Germany?

As featured on Real Dictators.

A Noiser production, written by Jeff Dawson.

For ad-free listening, exclusive content and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Now available for Apple and Android users. Click the Noiser+ banner on Apple or go to noiser.com/subscriptions to get started with a 7-day free trial.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Up next
Aug 2024
D-Day: The Road to Paris
We conclude our D-Day story. What happened after the sixth of June? Three months of bitter fighting across Normandy. Hundreds of thousands of casualties. And, as Operation Overlord draws to a close, the fate of Paris hangs in the balance… A Noiser production, written by Jeff Daws ... Show More
1h 7m
Aug 2024
D-Day: Angels of Mercy
Thousands of nurses begin landing in France, some of them never to return. Codebreakers at Bletchley Park decrypt German communications, feeding vital intel to the front lines. Female pilots dodge German fighters in the skies above Britain. And on a sinking hospital ship in the C ... Show More
48m 20s
Jul 2024
D-Day: Journalists on the Front Line
Allied journalists parachute into France and land on the beaches with the invasion force. Legendary reporter Martha Gellhorn stows away on a ship, determined to beat her estranged husband, Ernest Hemingway, to the D-Day scoop. And a homing pigeon known as Gustav brings the first ... Show More
42m 33s
Recommended Episodes
Feb 2025
Hitler Stands Trial
February 26, 1924. 10 Defendants enter a courtroom in Munich. They are being charged with an attempted coup. They tried to overthrow the government of the Weimar Republic… and almost succeeded. All eyes are on the second defendant to enter the room. When the judge reads this man’ ... Show More
36m 47s
Mar 2025
Genghis Khan and the Mongols, Part 2 of 2
The leader brings reforms to his newly unified Mongol nation. The man formerly known as Temüjin will now conquer an empire bigger than any before in recorded history. But what are the innovations that underpin his supremacy? And how will history judge him - as a cruel tyrant, or ... Show More
51m 59s
Apr 2025
Alexander the Great
Though he ruled for just 13 years, Alexander the Great is as famed for his hedonistic lifestyle as his military genius. But how did he become one of the best known military leaders in history? What inspired such loyalty among his troops? And what drove this young man in his endle ... Show More
47m 59s
Sep 2
Part One: How Heinrich Himmler Went From Nerdy Boy To Master of the SS
Robert sits down with Prop to discuss the early life of Heinrich Himmler, the man who built the SS into Hitler's engine of genocide. (6 part series) LIVE SHOW ALERT: We are doing a new Behind the Bastards Live show! In the Alberta Rose Theatre, Portland, September 25th at 8pm! Al ... Show More
1h 10m
Feb 2025
L’incendie du Reichstag, première marche vers la dictature
Virginie Girod raconte l'incendie du Reichstag, le coeur de la démocratie allemande, dans un récit inédit d'Au coeur de l'Histoire. Le 27 février 1933, à Berlin, Adolf Hitler, récemment nommé chancelier, dîne avec Joseph Goebbels quand le téléphone sonne. Au bout du fil se trouve ... Show More
15m 10s
Apr 2025
The death of Adolf Hitler
On 30 April 1945 Adolf Hitler killed himself in a bunker in the German capital Berlin as Soviet Red Army soldiers closed in. But first he married his lover Eva Braun, and dictated his will. In 1989, Traudl Junge, one of Hitler’s secretaries who was in the bunker when he died, sha ... Show More
9m 11s
Apr 2025
Tyler Perry: Turning Pain into Power | 274
Born in New Orleans, young Tyler Perry is forced to contend with all sorts of abuse. Some is at the hands of his explosive and alcoholic father, as well as neighbors and people he thought he could trust. Eventually, he escapes to Atlanta to pursue his dreams of writing and perfor ... Show More
46m 35s
Sep 7
George Orwell
Best known for his books Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell earned a reputation as chronicler and prophet of modern society. Plagued by illness, he exposed poverty and injustice, satirised the powerful, and took up arms against fascism. Today, his name has become ... Show More
56m 3s
Sep 26
“LUDICROUS!” Rob Reiner Says Kamala Harris LIED About Him In Book | Piers Morgan Interview
Hollywood legend Rob Reiner had a string of smash hits in the 80s and 90s and has now written a new book on the iconic Spinal Tap, called ‘A Fine Line Between Clever & Stupid’. He joins Piers Morgan to talk about free speech in today’s political climate, drawing on the death of C ... Show More
46m 34s
Jan 2025
Auschwitz Commandant: Rudolf Höss
Every day Rudolf Höss oversaw the killing of thousands of people at the death camp and then went home and acted like a doting father to his family. Höss was brought in by top Nazis to pioneer the industrialisation of the mass murder of Europe's Jews and others. He lived in a hous ... Show More
1h 4m