#26 Enemy: The Germans' War, ep. 2 - The Work of the Men
The Martyr Made Podcast
Darryl Cooper
4.7 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 254 minutes
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Summary
Over the span of a handful of months, the most ancient ruling houses of Europe collapsed under the weight of deprivation and suffering brought about by the Great War. As communist revolutionaries burn Russia to the ground, their comrades preach blood and fire on the streets of Berlin, and while the Allied countries celebrate their noble victory, the starving, exhausted people of the German Reich face a new enemy more terrible than any they faced in the trenches.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone? This is Darrell Cooper and you're listening to the Martyr Made podcast. |
| 0:08.4 | You're about to hear episode two of Enemy, the Germans War, the work of the men, |
| 0:16.4 | a story of the Second World War told from the perspective of the Germans. In the last episode, I tried to convey the horror of the Second World War told from the perspective of the Germans. |
| 0:27.3 | In the last episode, I tried to convey the horror and helplessness of trench warfare during the First World War, and over the next few episodes, we're going to discuss how the men who |
| 0:32.8 | experienced that tried to reconstruct themselves and their nations in the aftermath. If you pick up any |
| 0:41.1 | history book, you'll learn that the First World War began in 1914 and ended in 1918. |
| 0:48.0 | But at the time, that might have been news to anybody living in the defeated countries. |
| 0:53.5 | Because while the Allies were toasting their glorious victory, |
| 0:57.7 | civil wars, revolutions, and territorial conflicts between newly created states |
| 1:03.3 | would rage for several more years and claim millions of lives, |
| 1:08.8 | from Germany and the West to Siberia, in the East, and everywhere |
| 1:12.7 | in between. |
| 1:14.5 | And these would be no mere military conflicts, but wars of annihilation and terror that pitted |
| 1:21.6 | nation against nation, class against class, and in which whole categories of human beings would be deemed unworthy |
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