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The Rest Is History

64. Hitler, with Ian Kershaw - part 2

The Rest Is History

Goalhanger

History

4.626.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In the second part of our examination of Adolf Hitler, Sir Ian Kershaw joins Dominic Sandbrook to discuss the Nazi leader’s years leading up to and during the Second World War. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Restless History, Dominic. Have you heard the latest exciting news about our live tour?

0:10.0

I have, Dominic. It's actually shocking news. It's shocking but also heartening. But just to remind you the listener, the rest is history is going on a nationwide tour at the end of April 2023.

0:21.0

I say tour but it's for three nights only. We'll be in London on the 25th of April and the historic Drury Lane Theatre. Then we'll be able to Edinburgh the following evening on the 26th of April to play at Usher Hall.

0:33.0

And we will finish on the 30th of April at the Larry in Sulford Greater Manchester. But Tom, the listeners are gacking to know about this shocking news that you have for them about the tour.

0:43.0

Ladies and gentlemen, I can announce that our London live show has now sold out. I repeat, all 2000 seats, yes 2000 seats at Drury Lane Theatre are now sold out.

0:55.0

So not even frozen the musical. The show that we are of course replacing at Drury Lane, not even frozen sold out that quickly.

1:03.0

I can imagine Elsa listening to this right now, fuming at the very thought of the rest is history stealing her snowy thunder. But Elsa, all I will say to you is let it go.

1:15.0

People can go to both shows. But just to emphasize, that's our first live date already sold out. And tickets are selling incredibly quickly for Sulford and Edinburgh too.

1:24.0

So if you do want to come, please buy your ticket right now to avoid disappointment. Now, if you've never been to one of our live shows, what a treat or wait. So we have an incredibly inventive approach.

1:34.0

Tom will take the first half and he will be running through his repertoire of Marilyn Monroe songs and I do be the do thanks for that. And I will be picking up after the interval with the PowerPoint presentation on the economic policies of Stanley Baldwin.

1:45.0

It's an absolute riot.

1:47.0

It's fun for all the family. So these are our first ever shows outside London as a podcast. So we'll be putting on a tour de force. I think Dominic is the only word for it in both greater Manchester and the Scottish capital.

1:59.0

So they'll be impressions, perhaps a Mureguin pipe music and plenty of absolute lads from history. Here is how you can get tickets. Just go to rest is history pod dot com. It is very, very, very straight forward. That is www dot rest is history pod dot com by your tickets now to Sulford and Edinburgh before it's too late.

2:29.0

What Hitler did was advertise unoriginal ideas in an original way. He gave voice to phobias prejudice and resentment as no one else could. Others could say the same thing but make no impact at all. It was less what he said than how he said it that counted.

2:52.0

Welcome to the rest is history. We are with city in Kershaw talking about Hitler and this obviously is Hitler part two. So hello Tom looking forward to a bit more Hitler.

3:03.0

Always looking forward to a bit more Hitler and not least because really in part one.

3:08.0

There was so much we covered there was so much fascinating stuff that Zeyn was giving us. There were his powers of oratory the root of his hatred of the Jewish people. Actually even the nature of evil.

3:22.0

So this isn't a podcast just about Hitler. This is a podcast about incredibly broad themes that kind of themes that contemplating Hitler almost inevitably provokes and we barely made it out of the 1920s. So if you missed that first episode, please do make sure you go back and find it for you listen to this one.

3:42.0

Well, they hopefully you already know how the story is going to end. Yes, so we were talking last time about Hitler's rhetoric and his sort of superpowers it were if that's not too tried to way of putting it being his demagoguery.

3:53.0

And I think that takes us back into our next question to Syrians so Tom, it wasn't just words was it a Hitler used to impose his will on the German people.

4:01.0

No.

4:02.0

The methods that Hitler employees and the Nazis around him are I mean, well, they're described by his critics as criminal. They employ, faggery, violence, blackmail.

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