Robert sits down with Amanda Montell to talk about Alfred Hugenberg, a German industrialist who made Hitler's rise to power possible for some very familiar reasons. Sources: The Pan German League by Barry Jackisch https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/hitler-oligarchs-hugenberg-nazi/681584/ The Fateful Alliance by Hermann Beck https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/weimar-germany/ https://corporatecitizen.in/issue3/corporate-history-mercedes-was-hitler%E2%80%99s-idea.html https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-75512-5_1 https://www.topfundsoehne.de/ts/en/site/history/index.html https://archive.org/details/alfredhugenbergr0000leop/page/11/mode/1up See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hey everybody, Robert here. We had a little mic error for the first couple of minutes of the episode. My audio is going to sound a little shitty for literally like three or four minutes, then it'll be back to normal. Apologies. Welcome back to Behind the Back. about me. Sophie Lichterman. Sophie, why do I do the things that I do?
Why do I taunt you when you're just trying to help make me a successful person? What's wrong with me?
You like to self-sabotage.
I love self-sabotaging. Oh, my God. You do. You do.
And like, I recognize that. So when you do it, I still I still help anyways, because I'm rooting for you.
So, you know, speaking of self-sabotaging, you know who doesn't self-sabotage? God, I hope not. They're a very successful person. Our wonderful guest today, Amanda Montel, author of the book Cultish Witch. I've cited on this show. We've all read.
Yeah, we've all read the book.
If you haven't, what are you doing? It definitely influenced Zizi and Zeph. It's influenced a lot of my work. Amanda, thank you so much for being here.
Hey, it's a joy and a pleasure. And you know, so many of my Sounds Like a Cult listeners are obsessed with your show. That's how I learned about it from them. So I'm stoked.
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