Part One: Alfred Hugenberg: The Elon Musk of Weimar Germany

Behind the Bastards

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Robert sits down with Amanda Montell to talk about Alfred Hugenberg, a German industrialist who made Hitler's rise to power possible for some very familiar reasons.

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0:00.0	Callsone Media.
0:03.4	Hey, everybody, Robert here.
0:04.5	We had a little mic error for the first couple of minutes of the episode.
0:07.7	My audio is going to sound a little shitty for literally like three or four minutes.
0:11.6	Then it will be back to normal.
0:12.8	Apologies.
0:15.3	Welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast where I am eternally frustrating my business partner and and the
0:24.7	only person who truly cares about me. Sophie Lichtenen, uh, Sophie, why do I do the things that I do?
0:32.1	Why do I, why do I, why do I, why do I taunt you when you're just trying to, trying to help, make me a,
0:36.6	make me a successful person.
0:38.8	What's wrong with me?
0:40.5	You like to self-sabotage.
0:42.6	I love self-sabotaging.
0:45.5	Oh, my God.
0:46.4	You do.
0:47.4	And like I recognize that.
0:49.0	So when you do it, I still help anyways
0:51.8	because I'm rooting for you.
0:53.0	So sweet of you.
0:54.6	Speaking of self-sabotaging, you know who doesn't self-sabotage?
0:59.0	God, I hope not.
0:59.8	They're a very successful person.
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