Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2025-09-30

Books mentioned on Why Would Anyone Want to Appease Hitler?

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It seems ridiculously irresponsible with the benefit of hindsight, but the concept of giving Hitler everything he wanted was the policy among the UK and France as a way to keep the world from sliding into a second world war. Turns out it didn’t work.

Josh Clark discussed Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. Mein Kampf

    Adolf Hitler · at 7:19

    Mein Kampf is an autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler that outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany.

    Discussed
    “And what's what makes it a little worse though too is he wrote all this stuff out in in 1925 in my comp.”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Man in the High Castle
“Somebody just sends us uh Man in the High Castle, right? No plagiarism, please. Which I never saw or read.”