Okay, we are alive. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates. On today's show, I have a very special guest. His name is Nathan Stoltzfuss, and he is a professor of Holocaust studies in the arts and sciences and professor of history at Florida State University. And he published a book in August 2021. Title of the book is, or he's the editor of this book,

title is The Power of Populism and People, Resistance and Protest in the Modern World.

And he is also the author of Hitler's Compromises, published 2016,

and Resistance of the Heart, Intermarriage and the Rosen-Ststraza protest in Nazi Germany, published 1996,

and was a co-recipient of the Institute of Contemporary History's Frankel Prize and acknowledged as a new statesman book of the year.

He is also the co-editor with Robert Galatali of social outsiders in Nazi Germany, 2001,

and with Henry Friedlander of Nazi crimes in the law 2008. But again, the title of this book

just published is The Power of Populism and People, Resistance and Protest in the Modern World,

and it's Professor Nathan Stoltzvus.

So Nathan Stoltzvus, are you there?

Thank you very much. I'm happy to be here.

Great. Well, thanks for agreeing to the interview.

Excellent. It's kind of a broadcast, but it is a podcast.

Mostly most of my stuff goes on out on audio.

For people who may not have heard of your

background can you talk kind of about what you've written about and what led you to

compile this book the power of populism and people okay so in graduate school I met a

professor who was very interested.

I studied with the range of professors.

One was Joseph Nye, who has used the term soft power to refer to power that doesn't come out of the barrel of a gun.

I also studied with Gene Sharp, who was a kind of guru of what he called nonviolent sanctions.

That is, things that didn't destroy property or people, and yet still had a way of exerting power.

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