Curious Callback--Episode #54: True Crime/Fine Art: Otto Dix and the Plot to Kill Hitler (Season 6, Episode 1)

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Arts, History, Visual Arts

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🗓️ 1 March 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Enjoy this month's Curious Callback episode, all about a “degenerate” painter much-hated by Hitler and fingered for his near-murder. Did Otto Dix plot to kill Hitler? This is an episode that originally aired on September 30, 2019. Please SUBSCRIBE and REVIEW our show on Apple Podcasts! Twitter /Instagram We’ve got merch! Check out our notebooks, tote bags, t-shirts, and more at our Teepublic Storefront. SPONSORS The Great Courses Plus: get a 14-day trial with unlimited access Indeed: listeners get a free $75 credit to upgrade your job post Bombas: Get 20% off your first purchase Lightstream: apply now to get a special interest rate discount and save more Bloomberg Connects: get the free smartphone app that lets you access museums, galleries, and cultural spaces around the world anytime, anywhere Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.7	Hi there, Art Curious listener. Jennifer here, and we are on a little bit of a break between
0:36.7	seasons. We just finished up season eight in January, and we are on a little bit of a break between seasons. We just finished up
0:38.5	season 8 in January, and we will be airing new episodes of Art Curious with season 9
0:44.2	beginning later this spring. So until then, we are going to be airing the Curious
0:49.2	callback episodes, as we call them, so you can listen in to some older works from our archives. I hope you
0:55.8	enjoy them. And as always, stay curious and stay subscribed. We'll be back to you very soon.
1:02.5	The Art Curious podcast is sponsored by Anchorlight. For more information about all of Anchorlight's
1:08.2	artistic and creative endeavors, please visit Anchorlightrolly.com.
1:15.7	In 2015, one of the coolest films of the 1980s was being lauded for its 30th anniversary of
1:22.8	its release in 1985. That movie was Back to the Future. The Robert Zemeckis directed Michael J. Fox and Christopher
1:30.0	Lloyd's starring film that brought time travel and the Delorean to the masses, all to like
1:35.4	a totally bitching Huey Lewis in the new soundtrack. But in connection with this anniversary
1:40.5	and its link to Back to the Future Day where Marty McFly would arrive at the present
1:45.0	time, at the point it was October 21st, 2015, the New York Times did something a bit weird
1:51.3	and actually kind of gross. On its Twitter feed, they shared the results of a poll to
1:56.9	its masses of hundreds of thousands of followers. The poll asked one simple question,
2:02.9	and I quote, If you could go back in time and kill Hitler as a baby, would you do it?
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