Episode 98 -- Project 1933, Part VII: September 1 - September 30
In Bed With The Right
Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan
4.8 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 75 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 seventh installment covers September 1 to September 30, 1933. It's about culture: about how the Nazis took over the culture sector, how the émigrés began to establish an alternative, and how our modern picture of the Third Reich began to emerge.
A selection of books we consulted for or referred to in this episode:
Jürgen Trimborn, Leni Riefenstahl: A Life
Dagmar Herzog, Sex after Fascism
Kate Elswit, Watching Weimar Dance
Claudia Schmölders, Hitler's Face: The Biography of an Image
Susan Sontag, "Fascinating Fascism"
Adrian Daub, "Hannah, Can You Hear Me?"
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Adrian Dahl. |
| 0:08.5 | And I'm Wehradon. |
| 0:09.7 | Whether we like it or not, we're in bed with the right. |
| 0:14.0 | So, Adrian, today we are back with another installment of the series that we call Project 1933, where you take me through |
| 0:25.3 | month by month, the first year of the Nazis' time and power. And we are all the way up to |
| 0:32.4 | September. How do you feel? I mean, it's September 20205. How am I going to feel? People keep |
| 0:39.0 | commenting on how relevant this series is and like, I really wish that I didn't agree. I really |
| 0:44.5 | wish that we would be like, oh, well, what an interesting exercise, but thank goodness it didn't |
| 0:48.5 | turn on to be super relevant. It's pretty fucking relevant. There's things that I see that are diverging, right? |
| 0:54.8 | Like, today we are going to talk, as we have a couple times before, about the Nazi seizure of cultural institutions. |
| 1:03.2 | And I will note that we are recording the same week that Jimmy Kimmel got pushed off the air and then ushered back onto the air after backlash. |
| 1:12.7 | So, like, we still have something that Germany already sort of doesn't have. |
| 1:16.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.5 | Which is a bourgeois that can assert their, like, purchasing power and effect policy change that way. |
| 1:23.5 | Like, that is something that still exists here that doesn't seem to really be in effect in Germany, at least not through the story that you've been telling me. |
| 1:32.0 | Counterpoint, though, just yesterday, a general, Ben Hodges, tweeted apparently, |
| 1:37.1 | July 1935, German generals were called to a surprise assembly in Berlin and informed that their previous oath to the Weimar Constitution was void, |
| 1:43.9 | and that they would be required to square personal oath to the furor. And one Pete Hickset, |
| 1:49.0 | who is currently assembling all the generals in very much a similar way, which got General Ben Hodges |
| 1:55.7 | to tweet that, replied with Cool Story General. I agree with you. There are divergences and there are |
| 2:02.4 | differences opening up and I think people ought to be paying attention to those and certainly |
| 2:06.5 | if our comparison is making you more likely to think what is happening inevitable, we very much |
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