Adolf Hitler (Part 3)

How to Take Over the World

Benjamin Wilson

Self-improvement, Education, History

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🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 122 minutes

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In part 3, we explore how Hitler went from taking over Europe to losing everything. 00:00 Introduction 06:51 Reichstag Fire 09:44 Working Toward the Führer 14:40 Night of the Long Knives 22:18 Rearmament 23:26 Rhineland Reoccupation 31:37 Berlin Olympics 42:03 Anschluss 44:51 Sudetenland 48:15 Czechoslovakia 53:45 Pact With Stalin 01:01:11 Phony War 01:03:17 Norway to Fall of France 01:06:16 Dunkirk and Aftermath 01:11:59 Battle of Britain Blitz 01:14:31 Barbarossa 01:20:08 Wolfsschanze And Early Confidence 01:21:08 Genocidal War 01:25:53 Winter Pushback 01:31:43 War With America Declared 01:34:31 Operation Blue 01:36:51 Stalingrad Catastrophe 01:39:31 Kursk And Lost Initiative 01:42:16 Allies Coordinate Axis Fractures 01:46:27 Unconditional Surrender Debate 01:49:19 D Day And July Plot 01:53:33 Bunker Collapse And Suicide 01:56:13 Conclusion ----- Sources:⁠ Hitler: A Biography by Ian Kershaw⁠⁠ Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny by RHS Stolfi ⁠⁠Hitler: A Global Biography by Brendan Simms ⁠⁠In His Own Words: The Essential Speeches of Adolf Hitler by CJ Miller⁠ ⁠Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler (New Ford Translation)⁠ ----- Sponsors:⁠ The Classical Society⁠⁠ David Senra Podcast⁠⁠ Zodl (The new Zashi wallet)⁠⁠ Speechify * This episode is brought to you by Helix Sleep. Go to HelixSleep.com/TakeOverPod for 20% off your purchase. * This episode is brought to you by Incogni. Go to Incogni.com/takeover for 60% off. ----- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I want you to close your eyes and imagine the thing you want most in the world.
0:05.0	But one thing, just one thing.
0:08.0	Not the thing that it would be great to have like a private jet, but the thing that you really want to accomplish in your life.
0:14.0	Now imagine that you accomplish everything else, except for that.
0:18.0	That one thing you still lack, but you got everything else, every other goal you want to
0:22.4	achieve in life you have.
0:24.8	Could you just walk away from your dream?
0:27.9	Could you collect your winnings and go home?
0:30.7	That was the question that Hitler faced in 1939.
0:34.8	He had restored Germany's honor and her defenses.
0:41.3	He had united his home country of Austria with Germany without firing a shot, and conquered Czechoslovakia with ease, and in so doing greatly expanded German territory.
0:46.3	He had stabilized the German economy, centralized the German government,
0:49.3	all in the course of a few short years.
0:52.3	He was poised to go down in history as another Bismarck, one of the great German statesmen
0:57.3	of all time.
0:58.7	But he had not accomplished his most audacious stated goals of making Germany an independent
1:05.0	global power on par with the United States, Russia, and England, or of freeing Europe from
1:10.3	international Jewry.
1:11.9	He had not smashed Bolshevism.
1:14.6	And so he risked everything that he had accomplished on one more gamble.
1:19.0	And then he did it again, and again and again and again, until he lost everything.
1:26.0	He would kill himself just five and a half years later.
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