The Hitler Diaries with Adrian Daub

Free yourself. What does it take to get someone to leave a cult? What happens if the cult is all around us? In this episode, Ben Brock Johnson & Amory Sivertson of NPR’s Endless Thread podcast join Sarah for a discussion about the cultier aspects of our culture, politics, and his ...  Show more

From the bonus vault!What actually makes a movie “bad”? In this bonus episode, Paul Scheer and Amy Nicholson of the film podcast Unspooled tell Sarah the story of what many consider to be the worst film of all time: the 1987 adventure comedy Ishtar. From the movie’s chaotic produ ...  Show more

Published 100 years ago in 1925, Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf was one of the most consequential books of the 20th century. It laid out Hitler's political ideology and future aspirations, as well as making the Nazi leader a lot of money. In more recent times, Mein Kampf has continued ...  Show more

This week, the boys pick back up with Heinrich Himmler just after Hitler’s failed Beer Hall Putsch, as the Nazi's most pathetic nerd stumbles through his failed-loser era. From chicken farming and occult rabbit holes to his first taste of Nazi bureaucracy, we trace how a sulki ...

In the early 80s, a German magazine thought it had the scoop of the century: access to Adolf Hitler’s secret diaries. But as soon as excerpts of the diaries were released, critics pounced. Soon, the magazine that published them, the expert who verified them, and the journalist ...

📖 Episode Transcripts in Link Below ⬇️ Today, we’ll be examining a significant yet deeply troubling moment in 20th-century history—the publication of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf. This book became a cornerstone of Nazi ideology and a precursor to the devastating events of World War ...  Show more