Oct 8
Introducing: SAD OLIGARCH Season 2
Hello, Behind the Bastards Listeners! We want to share a new show you might enjoy, SAD OLIGARCH Season 2! About the show: Since January 2022, dozens of Russia's wealthiest oligarchs and power brokers have died suddenly. One was poisoned with frog venom. Two killed their whole fam ... Show More
2m 59s
Apr 2025
Eva Braun et Adolf Hitler, les amants maudits
Stéphane Bern raconte le destin, lié à jamais, d’Eva Braun et d’Adolf Hitler, les amants maudits qui, il y a 80 ans jour pour jour, se sont unis, après des années d’une relation (presque) secrète dans une Allemagne sous le joug du Führer et une Europe à feu et à sang, avant que l ... Show More
43m 40s
Jun 2023
Rise to Power: Night of the Long Knives
To ward off the Western Allies, Hitler takes a trip to Venice to visit Mussolini. At home, meanwhile, Hitler’s paramilitaries, the SA, are growing restless. In a final savage act, the mother of all purges, Hitler will liquidate anyone who has ever wronged him. Under the unassaila ... Show More
54m 23s
Jun 2025
Inside the Nazis’ Supernatural Obsession | A Conversation with Historian Eric Kurlander
June 4, 1941. Reinhard Heydrich transmits a message to all regional governors in the Third Reich: prepare for “action against occult teachings.” Heydrich is carrying out the orders of Adolf Hitler, who is furious at his Deputy Führer, Rudolf Hess. Inspired by a horoscope reading, ... Show More
41m 4s
Jun 2023
Rise to Power: Hitler’s Secret Family
After the Wall Street Crash, the Germany economy nosedives. The Nazis find themselves within grasp of government. As Adolf Hitler makes headlines across Europe, secret relatives come out of the woodwork. With Hitler’s newfound fame comes the whiff of scandal, and a personal trage ... Show More
1h 2m
Jul 17
Mein Kampf: Hitler's dark vision for the future
Published 100 years ago in 1925, Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf was one of the most consequential books of the 20th century. It laid out Hitler's political ideology and future aspirations, as well as making the Nazi leader a lot of money. In more recent times, Mein Kampf has continued ... Show More
26m 55s
Jan 2025
528. The Nazis' Road to War: Hitler Prepares to Strike (Part 1)
Throughout the course of the 1930s, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party has overwhelmingly, terrifyingly seized power in Germany. Now, Hitler’s vile ambitions have turned to Czechoslovakia. On the 12th of September 1938 at the Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, he rabidly defended the suppo ... Show More
1h 3m
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