Hitler, Trump, and the Danger of Failed Coups

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Brad is joined by Dr. Richard Steigmann-Gall, a historian and expert in Nazi Germany. They compare Hitler's failed coup of 1923 and the Jan. 6 Insurrection at the US Capitol. The discussion focuses on several themes present in 1923 Germany and 2021 USA: Cultural resentment Right-wing authoritarianism Extra-military militias The danger of unity with fascists Christianity as a marker of cultural identity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://swaj.supportingcast.fm

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0:00.0	Welcome to Straight White American Jesus. My name is Brad O'Nishi, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Skimmore College. Our show is hosted in partnership with the CAP center at the University of California
0:23.5	Santa Barbara. I am joined for the second time by Dr. Richard Seagman Gall
0:28.6	who is the associate professor of history at Kent State. Dr. Seagman-Gall is an expert in many things his academic interest
0:36.1	concern the cultural and religious dimensions of German national socialism, specifically
0:40.5	the cohort of Nazis who believed in quote positive Christianity and the struggles
0:45.3	they waged with Naziism's Neopagans for religious dominance in the Third Reich.
0:50.3	His articles have appeared in the journals German history, Kirklic Zeigesichta, I'm practicing my German here for the first time in probably a year.
1:00.0	Social history, Central European history, totalitarian movements and political religions, the Journal of Contemporary
1:06.0	History, his book, which I've recommended in the past and will recommend again, The Holy
1:11.1	Reich, Nazi conceptions of Christianity in 1919 to 1945, came out in 2003 with Cambridge
1:17.9	University Press and has been translated into several languages.
1:21.9	So once again, Richard, thanks for joining me and thanks for being here.
1:25.0	Brad, thanks for having me again.
1:26.6	I really appreciate it.
1:28.1	Well, I wanted to have you on, just you are an expert in you know sort of Nazi Germany and that
1:35.2	historical period and that that historical place and I wanted to just start
1:39.5	today by asking you if you could help us understand and at a very basic level the fact that in
1:45.9	1923 Hitler and his cohorts really made a first push for power in Germany.
1:53.4	And for all of you listening, you might be thinking,
1:56.1	well, why are we talking about this?
1:57.4	And the reason I want to talk about it is because,
2:00.0	as Richard, I think we'll explain here in a second,
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