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Behind the Bastards

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

Behind the Bastards

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News, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

World War 1 has begun, and Robert walks Amanda through how Alfred Hugenberg bought up the German media to make the case the the war should go on for ever, and then how he backed the Nazi party and ushered Hitler into power when that didn't go well for some reason.

Sources:

  1. The Pan German League by Barry Jackisch
  2. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/hitler-oligarchs-hugenberg-nazi/681584/
  3. The Fateful Alliance by Hermann Beck
  4. https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/weimar-germany/ 
  5. https://corporatecitizen.in/issue3/corporate-history-mercedes-was-hitler%E2%80%99s-idea.html 
  6. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-75512-5_1 
  7. https://www.topfundsoehne.de/ts/en/site/history/index.html 
  8. https://archive.org/details/alfredhugenbergr0000leop/page/11/mode/1up 

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0:00.0

Oh boy howdy. We're back having a good time and everything's good.

0:12.2

We're podcasting about Alfred Huggenberg, a great asshole who at this point in time has helped make World War I a reality, which,

0:24.1

you know, I hope to one day make World War I a reality.

0:28.0

You are.

0:29.1

You're keeping its memory alive right now.

0:30.9

Every day.

0:31.4

Every day.

0:32.5

As soon as this call finishes, Amanda Montel, our great guest and the author of Coltish, as soon as we

0:38.1

finish this recording, I'm going to get back on the phone with Emmanuel Macron over in France

0:43.0

and try to sell him some new machine guns, you know?

0:45.8

Then I'm going to tell the Germans, do you know what Macron's doing? Holy shit.

0:51.9

That moment, that moment when you become your podcast that's right where do you end and it begins

1:00.6

look subject verb agreement I don't know what's the one thing everyone agreed in in 19 on in 1913 and

1:07.8

today too many young people in Europe you know know? We're going to knock that problem out

1:13.0

right away. Just make a new Western Front. Exactly. Exactly. You know, it's good for the economy.

1:21.5

It's terrible. It destroys the whole thing. Yeah.

1:26.6

There's a type of soil in Mississippi called Yazoo Clay.

1:30.9

It's thick, burnt orange, and it's got a reputation.

1:35.0

It's terrible, terrible dirt.

1:36.6

Yazoo clay eats everything, so things that get buried there tend to stay buried.

1:42.2

Until they're not.

1:43.7

In 2012, construction crews at Mississippi's

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