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I am having one of those days. You know, my to-do list is too long. My energy is too low. My time

too short. I've been in meetings all day and half of them were useless. The other half were also

somehow regrettable. And I forgot I had to write and record this episode. Being this busy and

feeling this stressed just makes you want to murder someone. But have you ever stopped to think

what that would actually be like? You know, to murder someone? That's all agreed that this is

purely an intellectual exercise and none of us would ever actually do it. But what if the person

was really asking for it? What if the world would be a better place without them? What if with this

murder you saved the lives of others? Maybe millions of others? How would you go about it? What if

they're well protected, you know, tight security? How comfortable are you with bloodshed, with the

possibility of collateral damage? Do you know anything about explosives? Are you a famous painter?

What in the world am I talking about?

Well, the answer lies in today's Saturday, Matinee, from the podcast The Art of Crime,

a history podcast that explores the unlikely collisions between true crime and the arts.

And in this episode, host Gavin Whitehead brings us the story of Otto Dix, a talented young

German painter who ran a foul of the Nazis for his unflinching take on the brutality of war

and the harsh realities of German society. But he really pissed them off. After they became convinced

he was an accomplice in the elaborate and very nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life in 1939

and almost assassination using a bunch of explosives. But it wasn't him. To find out the real culprit

keep listening, and while you do search for and follow the art of crime, we put a link in the

show notes to make it easy for you.

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