Keep Talking Episode 131: Sir Richard Evans - How the Nazis Rose to Power
Sir Richard Evans is a historian, and the author of many books, including The Third Reich Trilogy, The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815–1914, and Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich, which is the primary focus of this conversation.
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(00:00) Intro
(01:00) The young Hitler
(04:11) The Nazis were conservative, middle class Germans
(10:20) How Hitler rose, his talents as a speaker
(19:52) The Reichstag Fire and The Enabling Act
(27:57) The romantic and personal life of Hitler
(31:39) Hitler's romantic interest in Joseph Goebbels's wife
(35:52) Demythologizing the Nazis: a story of Himmler in the sauna
(39:27) "Ordinary Men" by Christopher R. Browning
(44:50) The story of Dr. Karl Brandt
(49:34) Why history and studying the Nazis matters
(52:19) Threats to freedom and democracy in the modern world
(54:22) Donald Trump is not a fascist