Traudl Junge was not just Hitler’s secretary, she was also a fountain of piping hot tea. This is a toughie. You’ll see why. We get into WWII, marriage, real estate, trains, bedspreads, and a LOT of bunker talk. 

Selected Bibliography:
Books

·      Ascent, by Volker Ulrich

·      Letters to Hitler, by Heinrik Eberle 

·      Until the Final Hour, Traudl Junge 

·      Voices from the Bunker, by Pierre Galante, Gertrude Junge and Eugene Silianoff

Movies

·      Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary, by André Heller 

·      Downfall

Intro song: my daughter

Cover art: my sister

Images: public domain, Alamy

From German rocket scientist to war criminal to NASA golden boy to Disney star! Let’s talk about Wernher von Braun, the Space Race, Operation Paperclip, WWI, WWII, the Treaty of Versailles, and so much more.
Trigger warnings: antisemitism, holocaust, murder, incest 

Intro song: My daughter

Cover art: My sister

Selected Bibliography

Books

Into that Silent Sea, by Francis French and Colin Burgess

Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge, by Asif A. Siddiqi

Wernher von Braun, by Christopher Lampton

The Rocket and the Reich and Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War, Michael J. Neufeld

Film

Man in Space, 1955  Disney 

Images: Getty

Leni Riefenstahl was a dancer, an actor, a filmmaker, and a real jerk! And also a liar! Let’s get into it in a probably too-long chat about WWII, propaganda, film, Hollywood, Hitler, and plenty of other Nazi stuff.

Trigger warnings: Holocaust, murder, antisemitism, SA, racism

Selected Bibliography

Books:

Artists Under Hitler, by Jonathan Petropoulos

Hitler’s People, by Richard J. Evans

Hitler’s Women, by Guido Knopp

Documentaries:
Riefenstahl, Andres Veiel 

Time of Darkness and Stillness, Nina Gladitz

The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, by Ray Müller

Let’s chat about WWII, concentration camps, and a very sketchy real estate choice. Rudolf Höss didn’t just run Auschwitz. He lived right next to it! This episode, of course, covers a million topics and tangents. Sorry. Thanks/blame to Eduardo! 

Trigger warnings: Sexual assault, holocaust, antisemitism, murder

Cover art: My sister 

Intro song: My daughter 

Selected bibliography

Hitler: Downfall, by Volker Ullrich

“Postwar Testimony of Rudolf Höss,” United States Holocaust Museum.https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/artifact/postwar-testimony-of-rudolf-hoss

Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz, by Thomas Harding

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, by William L. Shirer

Image Credits: Getty, Planet Schule

Besties!! I’m jetlagged, full of jamon, and ready to CHAT. Let’s talk about Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich, Adolf Hitler, WWII, the SS, and so much more. We’re going to get into the weeds on 900 topics, but I swear, it’s going to be fun.

Trigger warnings: Suicide, Holocaust, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Murder

Cover art: My sister 

Intro song: My daughter 

Selected Bibliography

Himmler, by Willi Frischauer

Hitler (Ascent and Downfall), by Volker Ullrich

Hitler’s People, by Richard J. Evans

Nazi Wives, by James Wyllie

The Private Heinrich Himler, by Katrina Himmler 

Image Credits: Getty, Wikipedia 

Hello, best friends, divas, and unicorns! Let’s talk about history's worst "good Nazi," Albert Speer, who started his career as an architect, and then ended it by throwing a bunch of his cronies under the bus at the Nuremberg Trials. He was a delusional dreamer, a AND a war criminal! Wow, wow, wow.

Trigger warnings: Suicide, Holocaust, Slave Labor, Antisemitism

Cover art: My sister 

Intro song: My daughter 

Selected Bibliography

“Building the Nazi Party Rally Grounds,”

https://museums.nuernberg.de/documentation-center/topics/national-socialism/the-nazi-party-rally-grounds/building-the-nazi-party-rally-grounds

Killing Hitler, by Roger Moorhouse

Hitler (Ascent and Downfall), by Volker Ullrich

The Hitler Assassination Attempts, by John Grehan

“’Wonder Weapons’ and Slave Labor,” by Michael Neufeld https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/wonder-weapons-and-slave-labor

Image credits: Getty

Ready to get into the weeds? Let’s talk Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, a couple of world wars, astrology, the Beerhall Putsch, libido pills, scientific occultism, and the Nuremberg Trials, among other things. 

Trigger warnings: Holocaust, Suicide, Antisemitism

Cover art: My sister 

Intro song: My daughter 

Selected Bibliography

Hitler (Ascent and Downfall), by Volker Ullrich

Hitler’s Monsters, by Eric Kurlander

Hitler’s People, by Richard J. Evans

The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, Jack El-Hai

Nazi Wives, by James Wyllie

Nuremberg Trial Proceedings, Yale Avalon Project 

Buckle up, besties! We’ve got romance. We’ve got intrigue. We’ve got the royal family! Join me to gossip about Edward VIII, his mistress-turned-wife, Wallis Simpson, and her Nazi boyfriend, Joachim von Ribbentrop. We’ll talk Hitler, we’ll talk incompetence, and we’ll talk terrible choices in flowers. 

Trigger warnings: Holocaust, Suicide, Addiction, Antisemitism

Cover art: My sister 

Intro song: My daughter 

Selected bibliography

17 Carnations, Andrew Morton

Hitler (Ascent and Downfall), by Volker Ullrich

Hitler’s People, by Richard J. Evans

Nazi Wives, by James Wyllie

Image credits: Getty

Hi besties! Let's talk about WWII, Nazis, Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Magda Goebbels, Lida Baarova, and so much more. 

Trigger warnings: Sexual Assault, Suicide, Filicide, Holocaust

Cover art: My sister 

Intro song: My daughter 

Selected bibliography

Goebbels, by Helmut Heiber

Goebbels, Peter Longrich

Hitler (Ascent and Downfall), by Volker Ullrich

Hitler’s People, by Richard J. Evans

Nazi Wives, by James Wyllie

Image credits: National Archives and Getty

Let's talk about WWII, Nazis, Hitler, Hermann Goering, fashion, makeup, and some very problematic drug use! 

Trigger warnings: Addiction, Holocaust

Cover art: My sister 

Intro song: My daughter 

Selected bibliography

• Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich, by Normal Ohler 
• "Gay Men under the Nazi Regime," USHMM
• Goering, the Rise and Fall of the Notorious Nazi Leader, by Roger Manuel and Heinrich Fraenkel
• "Goring,: The Nazi Lion Tamer," by John Gunther, Vanity Fair, Volume 43-45, 1935 
• Hitler, by Volker Ulrich
• Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany, by Jame Willie

• "Goring,: The Nazi Lion Tamer," by John Gunther, Vanity Fair, Volume 43-45, 1935 

Image credits: National Archives and Getty