Part One: How Heinrich Himmler Went From Nerdy Boy To Master of the SS

Behind the Bastards

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🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Robert sits down with Prop to discuss the early life of Heinrich Himmler, the man who built the SS into Hitler's engine of genocide.

(6 part series)

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Sources:

Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) | American Experience | Official Site | PBS

THE CAREER OF HEINRICH HIMMLER_0001.pdf

Longerich, Peter. Heinrich Himmler: A Life (p. 13). OUP Oxford. Kindle

The Unsuccessful Adolescence of Heinrich Himmler on JSTOR

An Architect of Terror: Heinrich Himmler and the Holocaust | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

An Architect of Terror: Heinrich Himmler and the Holocaust | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

"In Memory of the Girl in the Red Coat:" Heinrich Himmler’s Annotated Volumes of Mein Kampf

https://ia803406.us.archive.org/29/items/docuv3/Books/The%20Third%20Reich/The%20Celebrations%20in%20the%20Life%20of%20the%20SS%20Family%20by%20Fritz%20Weitzel%20%281939%29.pdf

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/himmlers-bridal-bootcamp-school-nazi-brides.html

https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/nazi-germany-1933-1945/himmler-s-secret-directive-to-all-members-of-the-ss-and-the-police-on-the-care-of-all-legitimate-and-illegitimate-children-of-good-blood-october-28-1939

https://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Master-Dark-Arts-Yenne-ebook/dp/B004NNUY2Y

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/01/26/266698688/heinrich-himmlers-private-letters-published-in-german-newspaper

https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-private-heinrich-himmler/id6505124720

https://www.amazon.com/Himmler-Evil-Genius-Third-Reich-ebook/dp/B01M2A6B3G/ref=sr_1_17?crid=E50LI9MCINFL&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.z6x_l5l35NMXS2OQuWFaVyTyeQToCbFtWufYLO0Ky4L51lUaUoGgVfmp9dpb0YgMMGMBzk6Ds5M4KY8XSGQdvzs_UWlPu3KkmHJV0_w1Lis71gwuHqxL4QpDLUxg_RgLfXjB7BuAQbn7kAstKkyA7w_NZpcXTr-nDXe0RoewTewNaEu0ci8AQ1anNJXxG-Dy.nKYUB17tVmFaGgeBMu1awu8zpzoH45_FAeO3Um6YpBs&dib_tag=se&keywords=himmler+biography&qid=1756935132&sprefix=himmler+biography%2Caps%2C139&sr=8-17&xpid=KnVwOODWUvtST

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0:00.0	Coalzo Media.
0:04.6	Oh, wow, what time is it?
0:06.7	Oh, my gosh.
0:07.8	It's Bastards 30.
0:09.6	It's actually 117 in the afternoon, better known as my 8 a.m.
0:14.9	I am Robert Evans, and I'm not good at getting up early.
0:19.7	But you probably are.
0:21.2	I imagine you're listening to this podcast on your way to work at the medical factory or at the whatever else job you do.
0:29.4	I don't remember any other jobs but doctor.
0:31.5	The medical factory?
0:33.5	Yeah, doctors work, Sophie.
0:36.0	Come on.
0:36.8	You know that.
0:37.4	I'm going to start telling my brother he works at the, Sophie. Come on. You know that.
0:40.3	I'm going to start telling my brother he works at the medical factory.
0:42.3	See how that goes.
0:49.6	Speaking of doctors, our guest today has a PhD in performing.
1:11.3	I don't, that was supposed to like rhyme something better than it didn't, it didn't, whatever. Prop, Jason Petty. What's up, man? Let's up, man. Baptized in the phone, you know what I'm saying? I got a PhD in being me, H-Me, whatever that means. Oh, that's so much better than the one I did. Bars. Wow. Yeah, that was much better than how I did it. Prop, you are the host of a show called Hood Politics, which you can find the listener on this exact
1:18.0	podcast network.
1:20.3	Absolutely.
1:21.3	Yeah.
1:21.9	I had the privilege of being the first offspring.
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