Part Two: Saint Maximillian Kolbe: A Conservative Who Died Protecting People From Fascists

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Margaret continues her conversation with Molly Conger about a complicated man who spent his early life promoting antisemitic conspiracies before sheltering thousands of Jews and dying in Auschwitz.

Sources:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1982/12/05/mass-is-set-for-the-saint-of-auschwitz/18a930db-756e-4f7c-a484-399305713a29/

The Life of St. Maximilian Kolbe, William LaMay

https://pisma-niepokalanow-pl.translate.goog/967-czy-prawda-sie-zmienia?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/19/world/saint-charged-with-bigotry-clerics-say-no.html

https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/was-st-maximilian-kolbe-an-antisemite-1068

https://web.archive.org/web/20140102091901/http://www.consecration.com/default.aspx?id=41

https://www.reddit.com/r/freemasonry/comments/rva0iu/the_giordano_brunisti/

https://studiaelblaskie.pl/assets/Numery/SE-tom212020.pdf#page=199

https://www.scross.co.za/2023/08/st-maximilian-kolbe-the-remarkable-martyr-to-nazis/

https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/saint-maximillian-kolbe

Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism, Slavoj Zizek

https://eastwestreport.org/?view=article&id=343:persecution-of-christians-in-tsarist-russia-and-the-soviet-and-post-soviet-union&catid=43:e-20-2

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:06.0	CoolZone Media.
0:09.3	Hello and welcome to Cool People Did Cool Stuff.
0:11.6	Your weekly reminder that there's a show that comes out called Copi Pooh Put People Who Did Cool Stuff.
0:15.4	I am your host, Margaret Kiljoy, and my guest is the one, the only the anti-weird little guy.
0:22.7	Molly Conger, hi.
0:23.9	So glad to be back, Margaret.
0:25.2	Thank you for having me.
0:26.7	Yeah, on this day, that's totally a separate day
0:28.7	than the last time we recorded.
0:30.4	Wish we were talking about something else,
0:31.9	but I'm glad I'm back.
0:33.9	Wait, you don't want to get into part two
0:35.7	where the Holocaust happened?
0:36.9	You know, I'm always trying to avoid that.
0:40.4	Yeah, I don't do a lot of, I mean, I do some shows about people fighting the Nazis,
0:45.2	but I haven't done a lot of like straight up Auschwitz episodes.
0:48.9	To be fair, a lot of people did some really cool stuff when it came to fighting the literal Nazis,
0:53.9	but it is kind of a bummer. I know. It is kind of a bummer. But what isn't a bump? Nope. Actually, this is going to start with a bummer. No, it actually just starts right with a bombing of a city. Okay. Well. Jesus Christ, Magpie. I know. I know.
1:30.6	I know. I'm fully aware. I have been like, I've been talking to people and be like, how's your week? And I'm like, let me talk about this man. And they're like, how are you feeling? And I'm like, I don't know. Because like when people ask me on Wednesday how I'm doing, the answer is about 30 minutes of me talking about something that happened at least 100 years ago. Like that's just the answer to how I'm doing on Wednesday night.
1:27.6	We record on Thursdays.
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