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The Preamble

The Nazi Conspiracy with Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch

The Preamble

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.915.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, authors Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch sit down with Sharon to discuss their New York Times bestselling book, The Nazi Conspiracy. The pair discusses their research and writing process, including what it's like to collaborate on a book together. The Nazi Conspiracy takes readers deep inside the events of the Second World War and the semi-secret, in-person meeting between FDR, Churchill, and Stalin in Tehran. The Nazis grew wise to the meeting and conspired to assassinate all three leaders. What followed was a calculated series of spy missions, intelligence gathering, and strategic moves between the Allies and the Nazi powers.


Hosted by: Sharon McMahon

Guest: Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch


Executive Producer: Heather Jackson

Audio Producer: Jenny Snyder

Researcher: Valerie Hoback



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0:00.0

Hey friends, welcome. So glad you're with me today. I know that you are fascinated by

0:09.8

stories of World War II. We all are our series, how women won World War II. One of the most

0:16.9

popular things we've ever done. That is why I think you're going to love today's conversation

0:21.0

with authors Brad Meltzer and Josh Mench who wrote the Nazi conspiracy. The secret plot

0:29.6

to kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill. And I absolutely love this conversation. I

0:36.6

loved talking with Brad and Josh. I think you're going to get so much out of this and I think

0:41.4

you're going to want to read the book when we're done. So let's dive in. I'm Sharon McMahon.

0:48.1

And here's where it gets interesting. I am really excited to be chatting about the

0:54.1

Nazi conspiracy. First of all, so many conspiracies, gentlemen. So many books about conspiracies.

1:01.3

Yes, you're talking to two very paranoid people right now. That's really. But Dave, you know,

1:07.2

what the thing about these conspiracies though is I do think conspiracies is kind of a bad term

1:11.2

these days. You know, conspiracies used to be, and I will say I despise it. I despise that what

1:16.7

used to be a way for us to look at, you know, and question things has become a really disgusting

1:23.3

how people will use our politics today to say any outlanders thing they want to make

1:27.9

up about the opposing side, whatever your politics are. And then because they have an

1:32.1

internet connection, say that it's fat. And when we talk about whether it's the Lincoln

1:37.1

conspiracy or the first conspiracy we did about the secret plot to kill George Washington,

1:41.9

or even this one, what we really mean is a group of people getting together to do something

1:47.5

in a pretty nefarious way. And there's 50 pages of footnotes to prove everything we

1:52.7

say. People ask me all the time, what's the difference between a conspiracy theory and

1:57.4

a conspiracy? And of course, what's different is that one actually has evidence at the

2:04.5

other one is just what you think might be true. But you don't know because your brain can't

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