World War 1 has begun, and Robert walks Amanda through how Alfred Hugenberg bought up the German media to make the case the the war should go on for ever, and then how he backed the Nazi party and ushered Hitler into power when that didn't go well for some reason.

Sources:
The Pan German League by Barry Jackisch
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/hitler-oligarchs-hugenberg-nazi/681584/
The Fateful Alliance by Hermann Beck
https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/weimar-germany/ 
https://corporatecitizen.in/issue3/corporate-history-mercedes-was-hitler%E2%80%99s-idea.html 
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-75512-5_1 
https://www.topfundsoehne.de/ts/en/site/history/index.html 
https://archive.org/details/alfredhugenbergr0000leop/page/11/mode/1up 

<p>World War 1 has begun, and Robert walks Amanda through how Alfred Hugenberg bought up the German media to make the case the the war should go on for ever, and then how he backed the Nazi party and ushered Hitler into power when that didn't go well for some reason.</p>
<p>Sources:</p>
<ol>
<li>The Pan German League by Barry Jackisch</li>
<li><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/hitler-oligarchs-hugenberg-nazi/681584/">https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/hitler-oligarchs-hugenberg-nazi/681584/</a></li>
<li>The Fateful Alliance by Hermann Beck</li>
<li><a href="https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/weimar-germany/">https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/weimar-germany/</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li><a href="https://corporatecitizen.in/issue3/corporate-history-mercedes-was-hitler%E2%80%99s-idea.html">https://corporatecitizen.in/issue3/corporate-history-mercedes-was-hitler%E2%80%99s-idea.html</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li><a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-75512-5_1">https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-75512-5_1</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.topfundsoehne.de/ts/en/site/history/index.html">https://www.topfundsoehne.de/ts/en/site/history/index.html</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li><a href="https://archive.org/details/alfredhugenbergr0000leop/page/11/mode/1up">https://archive.org/details/alfredhugenbergr0000leop/page/11/mode/1up</a>&nbsp;</li>
</ol>

There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.

Everything you don't know about History's greatest monsters

Behind the Bastards

Part Two: Alfred Hugenberg: The Elon Musk of Weimar Germany

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