Adolf Hitler
Revisionist History. Hitler's Olympics, Hitler’s Olympics, Part 9: A Plague on Both Your Houses. Audio, 45 minutes
What is the right way to reconcile something pure with the messiness of the real world?
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Revisionist History. Hitler's Olympics, Hitler’s Olympics, Part 8: “Vater, It is to be Fayetteville” Audio, 34 minutes
The fight over the games provided Americans a chance to study Nazi Germany.
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Revisionist History. Hitler's Olympics, Part 5: The Amateur’s Hour. Audio, 37 minutes
A German Jewish high-jumper is determined to get her shot at Olympic greatness.
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Revisionist History. Hitler's Olympics, Part 4: Outcast in Olympia. Audio, 41 minutes
The cheerleader for the American Olympic movement was a tycoon named Avery Brundage.
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Revisionist History. Hitler's Olympics, Part 3: Mustache to Mustache. Audio, 36 minutes
The wolf met with the chicken. Guess who won?
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Revisionist History. Hitler's Olympics, Part 2: Pangloss, Polonius, Prufrock. Audio, 32 minutes
Faced with a moral dilemma, America needed the wisdom of Solomon. But it got Sherrill.
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- Posted3 July
Revisionist History. Hitler's Olympics, Part 1: The Blue-Eyed Tornado. Audio, 36 minutes
In the early 1930s, Hitler granted a rare interview to US journalist Dorothy Thompson.
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Revisionist History. Hitler's Olympics, Introducing... Hitler's Olympics. Audio, 4 minutes
Hitler swept to power in the mid-1930s and set out to stage the most extravagant Olympics
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- Posted19 February
Witness History. Vidkun Quisling: Norway's traitor. Audio, 9 minutes
In 1939, Vidkun Quisling asked Hitler to invade Norway.
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- Posted18 January
Real Dictators. Joseph Stalin Part 3: Hitler Attacks. Audio, 45 minutes
Hitler invades Russia, and Stalin's legacy is bound up with a bloody fight to the death.
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Real Dictators. Adolf Hitler: The Bunker and the End. Audio, 60 minutes
At the very end, Hitler conducts a macabre ritual of marriage, murder and suicide...
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Real Dictators. Adolf Hitler: Operation Valkyrie, Blowing up the Führer. Audio, 50 minutes
A group of generals attempts an audacious military coup.
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Real Dictators. Adolf Hitler: Mussolini’s Prison Break. Audio, 45 minutes
In Italy, Il Duce is overthrown. Hitler stages a mission to rescue his fascist partner.
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Real Dictators. Adolf Hitler: The Battle of Stalingrad. Audio, 50 minutes
The Nazi war machine is blown apart in one of the pivotal battles of World War 2.
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Real Dictators. Adolf Hitler: The Final Solution. Audio, 50 minutes
It's 1942. WW2 is well underway but the Führer is not as untouchable as he used to be.
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