Daily: Hitler’s long shadow

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🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Why does Hitler still cast a shadow on our politics? How do you re-examine the Nazis’ record without inadvertently fuelling Holocaust denial? Historian Prof. Frank McDonough, author of new book The Hitler Years: Disaster 1940-1945, explains why we still don’t understand the enormity of the Third Reich’s crimes, why the unstoppable German Blitzkrieg was a myth generated for home consumption, and why a Britain obsessed with the War really does need another book about Hitler. “Hitler still casts a long shadow over the present. The Third Reich is a lesson on how democracy can be destroyed from within.” “People say, don’t we know enough about the Third Reich already? And the answer is no, far from it.” “There’s an old saying: The Russians gave the blood. The Americans gave the money. And Churchill gave the speeches.” “We in Britain badly need a grown-up attitude understanding of the Second World War as an alliance, not as Britain standing alone.” Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:11.0	Even 75 years after his death, Adolf Hitler cast a long and dark shadow
1:15.2	over our presence. The question of how the most civilized and sophisticated society in Europe could
1:19.9	collapse into genocidal barbarism becomes harder, not easier to answer over the years.
1:25.7	Did Hitler exercise some mesmerizing power over the German people?
1:29.1	Was he their willing agent or was the truth even more complex than that? In Britain war mythology has become the
1:34.8	engine of our own petty nationalism and as the years past it seems we understand less
1:38.6	not more about Nazism and its architect. So how is it that in the 21st century we are losing our
1:43.5	understanding of what the historian Lawrence Reese called a warning from
1:46.1	history? Our guest today should be able to help. Professor Frank McDonough is an
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