Hey, everybody, it's James Lindsay. You are listening to the New Discourses podcast, and we're

spinning off another series to explore another crazy book. In this episode, we are going to dive

into Alfred Rosenberg's The Myth of the 20th century, which I actually introduced in the Nazi

Experiment podcast series, Volume 13. I know these things are sprawling, where I actually read

from this book to kind of follow up. I actually introduced it a little bit in volume 12 and then introduced it more

thoroughly in volume 13. And I said we would probably explore more of this book. And boy oh boy,

is it crazy pants. So do we ever need to hear about it? So just to kind of very briefly introduce

what the myth of the 20th century is and who Alfred Rosenberg was.

Let's start with Rosenberg. Rosenberg was Hitler's chief ideologist. So he was given the job of

writing the mythology of the Nazis. And this book, the myth of the 20th century,

is the mythological framework that Alfred Rosenberg was creating for Nazis to believe.

Now, this turns out to be a very interesting circumstance, because we read as if you remember if we go back

far enough into the episodes I did about Malita Moschmann's account rendered.

If you recall, Malita Moschman was a member of the girls version of the Hitler Youth, which is

called what the Bund Deutsche Model or something like that.

Maybe I have that last word wrong, but it means basically the Girls League.

So it's the young women's version of the Hitler Youth.

Hitler Youth was for boys. This was for girls. And so she was a member

of that, and she was 15 years old when she became a Nazi, and she talks very explicitly in

that book about how basically nobody that was a normal Nazi believed the Nordic race mythology.

But that's what Alfred Rosenberg was writing.

And there are pretty good reasons to believe that lots of the leadership

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