The Rise of Hitler
Dan Snow's History Hit
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4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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2/4. In this special 4-part series, we look back at the life of Adolf Hitler. With the help of Frank McDonough, a leading historian of the Third Reich, we follow Hitler from childhood to adulthood and learn how an awkward, aspiring artist became one of history's most infamous dictators.
In this second episode, we pick up the story just after his failed coup. Hitler exploited the chaos of 1920s Germany to build his own popularity. He manipulates the levers of government to gain power and builds around himself a team of loyal sycophants to prepare Germany for war. Behind the scenes, the wheels of the Holocaust are already put into motion.
Produced by James Hickmann, Mariana Des Forges and Freddy Chick. Edited by Dougal Patmore.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Peter Frankopen. And in our podcast, Legacy, we explore the lives of some of the biggest characters in history. |
| 0:07.6 | This season we're revisiting the life of Cecil Rhodes. |
| 0:10.4 | From Sickly Child to Diamond Tycoon, leading colonialist in South Africa, he was a bastion of British imperialism. |
| 0:17.2 | Over the past few years, campuses around the world have been met by students, chanting Rhodes must fall. His legacy has been completely transformed. |
| 0:24.6 | It's unbelievable how relevant roads still feels and how often his name is invoked by people |
| 0:31.3 | contesting really polarizing parts of our contemporary life. |
| 0:35.6 | But one of the questions about Rhodes is that he takes all the flag and therefore hides |
| 0:39.7 | away all the other people who were responsible for doing things that maybe not quite so bad. |
| 0:43.7 | That's why I think it's important to think not just about Rhodes and his own life, but about what that period |
| 0:47.5 | of British and colonial history meant. |
| 0:49.2 | And one of the things people often say is you have to judge these figures by the standards of their time |
| 0:53.3 | that's exactly what we're gonna do Peter isn't it so follow legacy now from |
| 0:57.1 | wherever you get your podcasts or binge entire seasons early and ad-free on |
| 1:01.4 | Wondery Plus. and our four-part series on the rise and fall of the 20th century's most infamous dictator. |
| 1:16.0 | At the end of the last episode we saw how Adolf Hitler's slap-dash coup to overthrow the Bavarian government failed. |
| 1:25.4 | In total, 16 Nazis had been killed and most of their senior leadership had been arrested. |
| 1:31.8 | We picked the story back up at Hitler's trial for the beer hall |
| 1:35.1 | Putch in late February 1924. It should have been an open and shut case. The |
| 1:40.9 | coup involved a litany of very obvious and public crimes including high treason. |
| 1:47.9 | The Nazis had carried out dirty backroom deals with some renegade government officials, they'd illegally acquired weapons |
| 1:55.1 | and marched through a major city as an armed mob seeking to overthrow the government. |
| 2:01.2 | This is the strange thing about the Munich, Hall pooches that it's kind of been elevated into this massive event, |
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