Episode
Part One: How Nice, Normal People Made The Holocaust Possible
1:34:44
Published: Tue Oct 13 2020
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Robert is joined by Sofiya Alexandra to discuss the, 'Little Nazis.'FOOTNOTES: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8497.1969.tb00946.x https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/bstewart/files/ordinaryvoting.pdf https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/i-was-a-nazi-and-heres-why https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/ https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/everyday-murder-nazi-atrocities-committed-by-ordinary-people-a-542245.html https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/the-fuehrer-myth-how-hitler-won-over-the-german-people-a-531909.html https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-horst-wessel-song https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/aryanization https://www.amazon.com/They-Thought-Were-Free-Germans/dp/0226511928 https://www.amazon.com/Black-Earth-Holocaust-History-Warning/dp/1101903473/ref=sr_1_1dchild=1&keywords=black+earth&qid=1602558619&s=books&sr=1-1 Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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