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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer has been mentioned in 34 episodes across 7 podcasts (7 episodes recommend it and 27 episodes discuss it), through . Most frequently brought up by Lex Fridman (17 episodes), Dan Savage (1 episode) and Joe Rogan (1 episode) on Lex Fridman Podcast (23 episodes), Behind the Bastards (3 episodes) and The Joe Rogan Experience (3 episodes).
#142 of 17,118 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer is a good example. It is full of bias. But he was there, and to me, he has written probably one of the greatest, if not the greatest, book on the Third Reich ever.
Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2025 Listen at 2:53:33 Questions about The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
Who recommends The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer on podcasts?
Lex Fridman (4 episodes), Dan Savage (1 episode), Joe Rogan (1 episode) and Saagar Enjeti (1 episode) have recommended The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer on podcasts. In all, 18 people brought it up across 7 podcasts (4 people recommended it).
Which podcasts mention The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich the most?
Lex Fridman Podcast (23 episodes), Behind the Bastards (3 episodes), The Joe Rogan Experience (3 episodes), My First Million (2 episodes) and The Book Review (1 episode), among 7 podcasts in all.
Is The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich recommended, or only discussed?
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer was recommended in 7 episodes and discussed without a recommendation in 27 episodes, as of 2025-12-26.
What do people say about The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich?
Lex Fridman on Lex Fridman Podcast (2025-01-06): "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer is a good example. It is full of bias. But he was there, and to me, he has written probably one of the greatest, if not the greatest, book on the Third Reich ever."
When was The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich last mentioned on a podcast?
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer was last discussed on The Rubin Report by Ashley Rindsberg on 2025-12-26.
What they say about it
- Read and reread the book“read and reread”6


- Author was a journalist there“foreign correspondent in Berlin”6


- Listen to as an audiobook“listened to the rise and fall of the third reich”2


- Read when young“when I was a kid”2
The best things said about it
Great book, I recommend it highly. It talks about the 30s and the rise of Hitler in Germany and the pain both economic and psychological turns into this like dark energy that can be combined with a charismatic leader to go into a direction of hatred versus love.
Lex Fridman The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2020 My favorite telling of world war ii is william shires rise and fall the third reich and or at least not telling of nazi germany.
Lex Fridman Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022 And the reason I'm thinking about that is I just finished this like Epic book It's like 1400 pages long It's called the uh what is it called the I think it's the rise and fall of the Third Reich Have you heard of that yeah so it's kind of one of the seminal texts on Hitler and Nazism.
I listened to the entire The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, the whole thing, 45 hours. That was fascinating.
Vitalik Buterin Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2021 I read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. My mother thought I needed to go to a psychologist because I read it when I was six.
Where and when it comes up
How it comes up
Most episodes, by podcast
18 people who brought it up
Lex Fridman17 episodes · recommended in 4- Dan Savage1 episode · recommended in 1
Joe Rogan1 episode · recommended in 1
Saagar Enjeti1 episode · recommended in 1- Robert Evans3 episodes
- Sam Parr2 episodes
- Ashley Rindsberg1 episode
Ben Shapiro1 episode- Chris Lattner1 episode
- Dan Carlin1 episode
Douglas Murray1 episode- Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett1 episode
Why people recommend it
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer is a sweeping historical account of Nazi Germany and the rise of Adolf Hitler, written by a journalist who worked as a foreign correspondent in Berlin during the 1930s. The book has drawn significant praise from various podcast hosts and guests who highlight its depth and cautionary power. Lex Fridman recommended it across multiple episodes of the Lex Fridman Podcast and The Joe Rogan Experience, noting that he read it multiple times, found it to be one of the greatest books ever written on the Third Reich despite its authorial bias, and valued its insights into how economic and psychological pain can combine with charismatic leadership to foster hatred. Joe Rogan shared that he was inspired by the volume to produce a solo podcast episode about Hitler's rise. Similarly, Dan Savage mentioned on The Ezra Klein Show that he first read the large volume as a youth and has reread it several times, while Saagar Enjeti recommended it on the Lex Fridman Podcast as a definitive single-volume study of the regime.
Every mention
Lex Fridman Rise and Fall of the Third Reich I've read twice now, and I recommend. 17
“On the bias front, for example, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer is a good example. It is full of bias. But he was there, and to me, he has written probably one of the greatest, if not the greatest, book on the Third Reich ever.”
“As an example, I admire William Shirer, the author of many books on Hitler, including "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich".”
“As an example, I admire William Shirer, the author of many books on Hitler, including "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich." He was there and lived through it and covered it objectively to the degree that one could.”
“Rise and Fall of the Third Reich I've read twice now, and I recommend.”
“my favorite telling of world war ii is william shires rise and fall the third reich and or at least not telling of nazi germany”
“so one of the things I've recently re-read for the second time i guess that's what the word reread means the rise and fall of the third reich which is i think the best telling of the rise and fall of hitler”
“so i personally have read and reread the william shires the rise and fall of the third reich who's another journalist who was there”
“so it's like  i've also recently re-read the rise and fall of the third reich about hitler nazi germany it's the rise and the fall and it's interesting to look at the entirety of that process after it's all over many many decades after it's all over that book in particular written by the person that was actually there”
“and it just feels like what i've been i've reread recently as a kind of therapy the rise and fall of the third reich by william shire”
“what do you make of the fact you mentioned rise and fall the third reich i just have you read that you've read it twice yes”
“for example when i've been running uh for the over the past couple years and especially when i listen to certain kinds of audiobooks like i've listened to the rise and fall of the third reich i've listened to a lot of sort of world war ii which at once because i have a lot of family who's lost in”
“yeah i i would say just as a small aside that's why reading as i'm almost done with uh the rise and fall of the third reich”
“yeah i've been reading as i don't shut up about the the rise and fall of the third reich and you know there there's economic effects uh that uh take a decade to you know there's going to be long lasting effects that may uh may be destructive to the very fabric of this nation”
“i've uh i've recently almost done with the rise in the fall of the third reich it's one of the historical descriptions of hitler's rise to power nazis rise to power”
“one of the big problems for me right now is I'm reading the rise and fall of the Third Reich Light reading so it's everything is just I just see parallels and every I mean it's it's you have to be really careful not to overstep it”
“I've been reading the rise and fall of the third reich Great book I recommend it highly It talks about the 30s and the rise of hitler in germany And the pain both economic and psychological turns into this like dark energy that can be combined with a charismatic leader to go into a direction of hatred versus love and”
“i apologize i'm reading the rise and fall of the third reich oh my god so i'm like really steeped into like world war ii and stalin and hitler and just these dramatic personalities that brought so much evil to the world”
“i'm currently reading a book i recommend for people which is uh uh as a jew it's been difficult to read but uh the horizon follows the third reich”
Dan Savage uh I read the rise along with their Reich when I was a kid and I've reread it a couple of times but William… 1
“uh I read the rise along with their Reich when I was a kid and I've reread it a couple of times but William shirer who wrote rise and fall of the Third Reich he was a foreign correspondent in Berlin in the 30s he was worked with Edward R Murrow and after the collapse of the Nazi regime he”
Joe Rogan he inspired me to try to do a solo thing like an episode on um on hitler on the rise and fall of the third… 1
“he inspired me to try to do a solo thing like an episode on um on hitler on the rise and fall of the third reich so i've i read a book called the rise and fall of the third reich is this huge volume I recommend people read it It tells the story of how hitler came to power”
Saagar Enjeti the third reich right i think you talked about that william shire 1
“the third reich right i think you talked about that william shire”
“so this one um if you need a one volume rise and fall the third reich I think you talked about that william shire”
Robert Evans and Shyer is you know he's one of these guys if you read through because he's the author of the rise and fa… 3
“and Shyer is you know he's one of these guys if you read through because he's the author of the rise and fall of the Third Reich right”
“Anyway, Jones claims that near the end of his time in high school, he started reading big fancy history books, including William Shire's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, which is a really good book, uh, as well as works of Roman history.”
“William Shyer, who is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and was an American journalist who lived in Germany during the rise of the Nazi party.”
“In the rise and fall of the Third Reich, William Shyer, who interviewed both Funk and Hitler a number of times, describes how German big business came to stop worrying and love the Nazis. In the summer of that year, Funk, a greasy, shifty eyed, ponchy little man whose face always reminded this writer of a frog.”
Sam Parr and then I just got done reading the rise of the Third Reich which is like which is like a 1500 or 1300 wor… 2
“and then I just got done reading the rise of the Third Reich which is like which is like a 1500 or 1300 word like epic”
“and the reason I'm thinking about that is I just finished this like Epic book It's like 1400 pages long It's called the uh what is it called the I think it's the rise and fall of the Third Reich Have you heard of that yeah so it's kind of one of the seminal texts on Hitler and Nazism”
Ashley Rindsberg And while I was in Israel, I picked up this book by William Shyer, who wrote this. He was a journalist in d… 1
“And while I was in Israel, I picked up this book by William Shyer, who wrote this. He was a journalist in during World War II in Europe. And he wrote this book about what was going on to the rise and fall of the Third Reich.”
Ben Shapiro Like, the way The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is written about Hitler, I like because there's almost n… 1
“Like, the way The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is written about Hitler, I like because there's almost not a criticism of Hitler. It's a description of Hitler, which is very,”
Chris Lattner I'm one of the big problems for me right now is I'm reading the rise and fall of the Third Reich Light read… 1
“I'm one of the big problems for me right now is I'm reading the rise and fall of the Third Reich Light reading so it's everything is just I just see parallels and every I mean it's it's you have to be really careful not to overstep it but just the the thing that worries me the most is the”
Dan Carlin i read the rise and fall of the third reich my mother thought i needed to go to a psychologist because i re… 1
“okay i've uh i've recently almost done with the rise in the fall of the third reich it's one of the historical descriptions of hitler's rise to power nazis rise to power”
“i read the rise and fall of the third reich my mother thought i needed to go to a psychologist because i read it when i was six”
Douglas Murray Personally, I have read and reread William Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, who's another jou… 1
“Personally, I have read and reread William Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, who's another journalist who was there.”
“Nevertheless, Winston Churchill is somebody, I mean, just reading the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, is an incredible figure to me.”
Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett for sure when I start reading the rise and fall of the third reich and start thinking about nazi germany I… 1
“for sure when I start reading the rise and fall of the third reich and start thinking about nazi germany I can empathize with everybody involved”
Dwight Garner I mean William El shire's book you know the the but what was the title that 1
“I mean William El shire's book you know the the but what was the title that”
Eugenia Kuyda i'm reading the rise and fall of the third reich Oh my god So i'm like really steeped into like world war i… 1
“i'm reading the rise and fall of the third reich Oh my god So i'm like really steeped into like world war ii and stalin and hitler and just these dramatic personalities that brought so much evil to the world”
Ryan Hall i've been reading uh the rise and fall of the third reich 1
“i've been reading uh the rise and fall of the third reich”
Sheldon Solomon and how i mentioned to you off camera that i've been reading uh the the rise and fall of the third reich 1
“and how i mentioned to you off camera that i've been reading uh the the rise and fall of the third reich”
Vitalik Buterin and after that i also got into um audiobooks um oh i listened to the entire um the rise and fall of the thi… 1
“and after that i also got into um audiobooks um oh i listened to the entire um the rise and fall of the third reich the whole thing 45 hours that that was fascinating”
Yaron Brook I love yeah the reading I'm reading it's so long it's been taking me forever the the rise and Falls the Thi… 1
“I love yeah the reading I'm reading it's so long it's been taking me forever the the rise and Falls the Third Reich”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker2
“like like going to bed reading like part four of the rise and fall of the third reich or whatever like i got like dense ass history”
“yeah i've been reading the the rise and fall of the third reich”
Other mentions (6: passing, ad reads, own books)
“and then so your book and then and then it has the rise and fall of the Third Reich”
“and then so your book and then and then it has the rise and fall of the Third Reich uh bloodlands by Timothy Snyder probably the most upsetting book I've ever read”
“What do you think about the 'Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' book?”
“especially when i listen to certain kinds of audiobooks like i've listened to the rise and fall of the third reich i've listened to a lot of sort of world war ii which at once because i have a lot of family who's lost in world war ii and so so much of the soviet union is grounded in the”
“that's I was actually recently just complaining that there's not enough content on the the famine the 30s of you know of of Stu there's so much on Hitler like I love yeah the reading I'm reading it's so long it's been taking me forever the the rise and Falls the Third Reich”
“Every source for this podcast, including the three books I used, the rise and fall of the Third Reich, uh, 1924, the year that made Hitler and the Death of Democracy. All of those sources and all the articles that I used for this will all be on the website.”