Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2020-10-15
Books mentioned on Part Two: How Nice, Normal People Made The Holocaust Possible
Robert is joined again by Sofiya Alexandra to continue discussing the, 'Little Nazis.' Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.
Robert Evans recommended Backing Hitler by Robert Gellately and Black Earth by Timothy Snyder, and discussed They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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They Thought They Were Free
They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer is a compelling journalistic study that examines how ordinary citizens in the Weimar Republic gradually accepted and accommodated themselves to the Nazi regime.
Discussed“Um, and one of the things that I think is most interesting about Meyer's book, They Thought They Were Free, is that like he he talks to like former Nazis about that.”
Where to get it
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Backing Hitler
Backing Hitler by Robert Gellately is a historical study that examines how and why ordinary German citizens supported the Nazi regime.
Recommended“uh I'm going to read a quote uh from a book called Backing Hitler by Robert Galadily, who we were just talking about. Um it's a very good book and it talks about sort of how uh how the images that the Nazi regime put out to justify the people they were locking away.”
Where to get it
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Black Earth
Black Earth by Timothy Snyder is a comprehensive historical analysis of the Holocaust that examines the environmental and ideological conditions that allowed the Nazi regime to perpetrate mass atrocities across Europe.
Recommended“Timothy Snider, a Holocaust scholar and one of the world's great experts on fascism, one of your must-reads if you want to understand what happened, uh, notes in his book Black Earth that regular police were a key resource for the Nazis.”
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