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Apr 2025
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Part One: Alfred Hugenberg: The Elon Mus...

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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.

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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