Episode 93 -- Project 1933, Part VI: August 1 - August 31
In Bed With The Right
Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan
4.8 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
For this episode of In Bed with the Right, Adrian and Moira return to the year 1933. They continue the story of how Hitler seized power, what it did to society, what it felt like to live through it, and -- as always -- what role gender and sexuality played in events. Reminder: We're going month by month for these episodes. This sixth installment covers August 1 to August 31, 1933. Meaning: This is a summer episode. It finds many of the institutions the Nazis have subjugated on summer break, the ongoing processes of synchronization and Nazification either already completed or about to kick into high gear. So this is an episode about the little stuff, the summer things: what our bodies do as the institutions betray us, how external pressures create coalitions, but also open up fissures, how old identities disappear without anything quite ready to take their place. And of course: what happens to our sense of time at times of peril. It's an episode full of small, interpersonal dramas, nervousness, regret and fear for the future -- punctuated by sudden outbursts of state-sanctioned violence and political cruelty. It is, in other words, a perfect episode for the summer of 2025.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Adrienne Dob. |
| 0:08.5 | And I'm Oirondigan. |
| 0:10.0 | And whether we like it or not, we're in bed with the right. |
| 0:14.0 | So, Adrian, today we are returning to our project, 1933, following the Nazis first year in power month by month. |
| 0:23.5 | We have done now five of these. |
| 0:26.2 | This is our sixth. |
| 0:27.5 | We are going to do 10 in total. |
| 0:30.5 | And that means we are about halfway through, a little more than halfway through, the first year of the Nazis rise to power. And I wonder |
| 0:39.5 | what you're thinking as we reflect back on, you know, the seven months before this. |
| 0:44.9 | Yeah, it's an interesting month to reflect on because, you know, we've been trying to draw on |
| 0:50.1 | various accounts from people who were there and who experienced the Nazis rise to power from different vantage points. |
| 0:59.0 | But there are some people that we found it easier to chicken with others. |
| 1:02.3 | And some of that is just an effect of what they left behind, right? |
| 1:05.9 | Like, did they have time to write in their diary? |
| 1:08.0 | Or were they just running around being like, oh, my like, oh, my God, oh, my God. |
| 1:11.1 | Did they have to flee later on and maybe their diary didn't survive, right? So we've found these |
| 1:16.5 | people almost by default that can sort of walk us through it. And we'll see that they spend August |
| 1:23.3 | 1933 as kind of a moment of reflection. We've been through half a year of this. They've been through |
| 1:28.3 | half a year of the real thing when it comes to 1933. We've obviously been through 2025, which, you know, |
| 1:34.5 | TBD, how people podcast about that in a couple of decades. But it's sort of a moment when things grind |
| 1:40.8 | to a halt and when people have to reflect on what they think has just happened |
| 1:44.2 | and what they think is about to happen. When we first started texting about this, you were like, |
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