Nazi Zombies w/ Dr. Claire E. Aubin
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re joined by historian Dr. Claire E. Aubin to talk about Nazism, monsters, and the combination of the two. We also discuss researching heavy topics, creating a supportive community, and Sharkenstein.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of the Holocaust, antisemitism, racism, violence, murder, dehumanization, child death, and genocide.
Guest
Dr. Claire E. Aubin is a historian of Holocaust perpetration, American public conception of Holocaust perpetrators, and Nazism. She also researches and teaches on antisemitism within the American Christian/far/alt-right. She is currently in the process of adapting her PhD dissertation on Holocaust perpetrators as immigrants to the post-war US into a book.
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Spirits is a boozy podcast about mythology, legends, and folklore. Every episode, co-hosts Julia and Amanda mix a drink and discuss a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures. Learn brand-new stories and enjoy retellings of your favorite myths, served over ice every week, on Spirits.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm a |
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| 0:09.0 | . Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:33.2 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:36.4 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:37.1 | And I'm Amanda and I'm |
| 0:37.5 | Julia. And we are so excited to be joined by Dr. Claire E. Aubin, who is going to tell us a whole |
| 0:42.8 | lot about monsters and Nazis and everything in between, maybe ghost stories, maybe what you |
| 0:48.8 | love about academia and monsters and monstrousness. God, I'm excited. Welcome, Claire, to the show. Thank you for |
| 0:54.9 | having me. I'm excited to get into it. We are so stoked as well. Just to kind of start off, |
| 1:01.0 | can you tell people a little bit about what your work tends to focus on in academia? |
| 1:07.1 | Sure. Yeah. So I've just finished my PhD and my PhD dissertation and most of what I work on was on Holocaust perpetrators. So not just like general Nazis, but people who specifically perpetrated the Holocaust as immigrants to the post-war U.S. So looking at the sort of like Nazi next door trope and the |
| 1:29.6 | sort of imagination that surrounds what a Nazi after the war looks like and specifically |
| 1:36.9 | like hidden or concealed Nazis in America look like. |
| 1:40.0 | So I do a lot of sort of work obviously on that and on their actual lives and experiences |
| 1:44.6 | and how those compare to the narratives that we have about them, but also a lot of work on sort |
| 1:50.6 | of what Nazis in popular culture and American culture look like and sort of the conception |
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