World War 1 has begun, and Robert walks Amanda through how Alfred Hugenberg bought up the German media to make the case the the war should go on for ever, and then how he backed the Nazi party and ushered Hitler into power when that didn't go well for some reason. 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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You are. You're keeping its memory alive right now.
Every day. Every day. As soon as this call finishes, Amanda Montel, our great guest and the author of Cultish, as soon as we finish this recording, I'm going to get back on the phone with Emmanuel Macron over in France and try to sell him some new machine guns, you know? Then I'm going to tell the Germans, do you know what Macron's doing? Holy shit.
What that moment, that moment when you become your podcast.
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Where do you end? And it begins subject verb agreement. I don't know.
What's the one thing everyone agreed on in 1913 and today? Too many young people in Europe. You know, we're going to knock that problem out right away. Just make a new Western front. Exactly. Exactly. You know, it's good for the economy. It's terrible. It destroys the whole thing.
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