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Welcome to Spirit's podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends and

folklore, every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. I'm

Amanda, and I'm Julia, and we are so excited to be joined by Dr. Claire E. Aubin, who is going

to tell us a whole lot about monsters and Nazis and everything in between, maybe ghost

stories, maybe what you love about academia and monsters and monstersness, got them excited.

Welcome Claire to the show. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to get into it. We are so stoked

as well, just to kind of start off. Can you tell people a little bit about what your work tends

to focus on in academia? Sure. Yeah. So I've just finished my PhD and my PhD dissertation, and most

of what I work on was on Holocaust perpetrators, so not just like general Nazis, but people

who specifically perpetrated the Holocaust as immigrants to the post-war US. So looking at

this sort of like Nazi next door trope and this sort of imagination that surrounds what a

Nazi after the war looks like and specifically like hidden or concealed Nazis in America look

like. So I do a lot of sort of work. Obviously on that and on their actual lives and experiences

and how those compare to the narratives that we have about them, but also a lot of work

on sort of what Nazis in popular culture and American culture look like and sort of the

conception that we have around them. So that's a lot of what I do. I also do a lot of stuff

on sort of the the right and anti-Semitism in the US at the moment, but it still kind of tends

to come back to our idea of like what evil and Nazism and all of these things look like versus

what they actually are. Yeah. That's such a fascinating subject. And like you think about kind

of the way that I guess after the Cold War, we kind of went away from Nazis of the bad guy in

like films and how we're kind of coming back to it at the same time. Like I know we got Nazis

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