Hey everybody. It is James Lindsay and you are listening to the New Discourses podcast, and we are continuing our series, which will be sprawling about the Nazi experiment.

So I'll do a very quick summary of what the Nazi experiment means, and as a framing for what happened in Germany

from the 1920s through to the 1945 when the Nazi regime collapsed but also I will talk about

what the Nazi experiment series means why we're're doing this, what it is, what I'm doing.

And I'll try to catch you up on the other episodes, which, of course, you should go backwards

and listen to. This is episode number three in the formal series, so episode number four,

kind of in the sense that I did a prequel

to the whole thing a few months ago. But in this episode, we're going to read volume

two chapter four of Adolf Hitler's Mind Kampf. And so that tells you a short summary of what

I'm doing with this podcast series. I'm reading Hitler to you.

And I'm doing it in an order that I think reveals what his project was. So chapter by chapter

or piece by piece with some extra materials added in here and there as we need to, I'm going to lay bare what I've

called the Nazi experiment.

The reason I'm calling it the Nazi experiment is because the framing that I'm adopting

for this series is that Germany following World War I found itself in a variety of conditions that it deemed were

intolerable. The Nazi party launched a grand societal experiment to see if they could fix those

conditions and it failed miserably. So what I'm trying to do by framing this as an experiment is to take

one step back from the, you know, kind of squabble that has erupted about what was largely

settled history about World War II, one of the most dissected periods of history in history.

Trying to take a step back from that, because there is a large amount of, we'll call it,

exploratory information, it's propaganda coming from the radical right that's trying to

revitalize the idea that Hitler maybe didn't have it all wrong. As a matter

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