logo
episode-header-image
Feb 2019
1h 42m

EP7 Hardcore History On Fire

DAN CARLIN
About this episode
Dan and History on Fire host Danielle Bolelli do a crosscast together about Nazis, political spectrums, U.S. Presidents they want back and some other stuff. Basically it's a typical phone call between these two guys that an audience gets to hear for once. Show Notes: Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler 
Up next
Jul 5
EP33 Sledgehammer and Big Shot
Henry Sledge, son of Eugene Sledge, writer of the classic war memoir “With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa” has released a book that includes tons of material left out of his dad's memoir along with details about growing up as the son of “Sledgehammer” 
1h 31m
Mar 2025
EP32 The Show with Mike Rowe
Dan has an extended and completely unplanned conversation with TV and podcast host Mike Rowe about jobs, history, media, politics and the current zeitgeist. 
2h 30m
Jan 2025
EP31 Kushite Conversations
Dan talks with writer, broadcaster and journalist Zeinab Badawi about the ancient African kingdom of Kush and her book on African history. 
1h 11m
Recommended Episodes
Oct 2022
The US and The Holocaust
After Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, thousands of German Jews facing systematic persecution wanted to flee the Third Reich but found few countries willing to accept them. For refugees fleeing the Nazis, America’s immigration quotas, established in the 1920s and sustained b ... Show More
19m 57s
Mar 2020
Hitler's First Hundred Days w/ Peter Fritzsche
Today I speak with historian, Peter Fritzsche about Adolf Hitler's rise to power and the first one hundred days of Nazi Germany. Support the show and visit our sponsor www.legacy-collectibles.com Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third ReichStories of the Se ... Show More
32m 51s
Dec 2022
Conspiracy: Hitler’s escape to South America
Did Adolf Hitler really make it out of the bunker alive at the end of the Second World War? In the first episode of our new series on some of history’s most well-known conspiracy theories, we explore the idea that Hitler outlasted the downfall of the Third Reich in 1945 and began ... Show More
28m 53s
Jan 2024
404. The Nazis in Power: The Night of the Long Knives (Part 1)
“Hitler had entered Röhm’s bedroom alone with a whip in his hand. Behind him had stood two detectives holding pistols, with the safety catch removed, at the ready…”The 30th of June 1934 saw a seismic moment unfold in the early years of the Third Reich. With the Führer and his par ... Show More
57m 8s
Aug 2023
Surviving Hitler and Stalin
Daniel Finkelstein’s parents were born into comfortable Jewish families in Germany and Poland, but the rise of Nazism and the onset of the Second World War turned their lives upside down. Targeted by two of the most destructive regimes in history, they were extraordinarily lucky ... Show More
45m 29s
Jan 2018
History on Blood and Fire
A special episode! This is a collaboration with Daniele Bolelli of the History on Fire podcast. We chat about a wide variety of real world historical influences on A Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire. Daniele Bolelli - http://www.danielebolelli.com/ Bonus Eps & More - ww ... Show More
2h 18m
Apr 2022
SYMHC Classics: Night of the Long Knives
This 2017 episode covers several days in 1934 during which Adolf Hitler, who was at the time the Nazi Party Leader and Reich Chancellor, directed an action which eliminated all of his political enemies and enabled him to declare himself Fuhrer.See omnystudio.com/listener for priv ... Show More
27m 47s
Nov 2022
Mussolini's Favourite Daughter
What do we know about the people who shared the surname Mussolini with the Italian fascist dictator? Edda Mussolini may have been Benito’s daughter, but she was also the wife of a convicted traitor, an unwilling mother and a hard-drinking socialite. To find out about Edda’s life ... Show More
40m 6s
Sep 2023
The Nazi Massacre at Rumbula
What would it be like to discover that your grandfather was a Nazi? For decades, generations of Germans have been grappling with the legacies of relatives who were part of the Third Reich. These legacies inspire feelings of tremendous guilt but also present an opportunity to ackn ... Show More
39m 10s