The Danger Zone (DZ)

By Paul Fordyce

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April 29, 2023 DZ Season 022 Part 12 Big Brands and the Nazis - Disney. Final Part.
Taika Waititi claimed to have made Oscar history as the first indigenous New Zealander, Maori, to win an Oscar. Well it turns out that he’s half indigenous.
His mother is Jewish. Sometimes he uses her surname as a professional name – Cohen. Shopping for the best ethnicity has become an important part of our
world today. Ironically this isn’t so different to the issues discussed in his Oscar winning movie JoJo Rabbit – set in Nazi Germany where, like the people who love identity politics today, ethnicity was a big thing. Some things never change do they. JoJo Rabbit is a movie from the Disney studios – poking fun at Hitler,
the Nazis and anti-semitism. Funnily enough all the things that Walt Disney loved and admired – Hitler, the Nazis and anti-semitism. If he was running the studio today this movie would not have been made. Today’s programmes looks at Walt Disney and the Nazis – then and now.
Tag words: JoJo Rabbit; Nazis; Johannes Betzler; Stephen Marchant; President Donald Trump; Mickey Mouse; Donald Duck; Third Reich; Walt Disney; Ub Iwerks; Steamboat Willie; Goofy; Snow White; Joseph Goebbels; Hitler; Charles Lindbergh; Leni Reifenstahl; Triumph of the Will; 1936 Berlin Olympic Games; Olympia; Kristallnacht; Art Babbitt; German American Bund; Pearl Harbour; Fantasia; Guadalcanal; Übermaus; Stalingrad; Bambi; The Third Reich Is All-Reich With Me; Pluto; Gestapo; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt;
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April 28, 2023 DZ Season 022 Part 11 Big Brands and the Nazis - Exxon Standard Oil
One of the ritziest hotels in New York before and during World War 2, was the Hotel Pierre. It was a real life Café Americain from Casablanca. Filled with doubtful and flashy characters with Nazi-Fascist-Vichy backgrounds and connections. The hotel had been bought by John Paul Getty after a waiter had been rude to him when he was a guest. Getty bought the hotel so he could sack him. When Getty bought control of it he first employed an Austrian baron, then a German war veteran and an ex-U boat captain as managers. Among the residents living in luxury suites at the Pierre, on no visible income, was Countess Möhle. She spent her time making herself attractive to US Army officers. She was in a perpetual state of wide-eyed curiosity about military matters. Without Standard
Oil, the greatest oil company in the World, giving Hitler a helping hand, World War 2 in Europe couldn’t have happened. Here’s this amazing true story.
Tag words: Hitler; Heinz Guderian; Achtung Panzer; Standard Oil; Exxon; BP; Esso; IG Farben; Vacuum Oil Company; Ernst Kaltenbrunner; Adolf Eichmann; Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler; John Rockefeller Jr; John D Rockefeller; William Farish; Asuchwitz-Birkenau; Kilgore Committee;
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April 27, 2023 DZ Season 022 Part 10 Big Brands and the Nazis - Airbus
This company designed the most produced fighter aircraft of World War II for the Nazis. The first operational jet fighter – faster and more heavily armed than
any Allied fighter. Became part of the first modern European consortium to design jet passenger aircraft and many other types, is a serious challenge to
Boeing’s monopoly. Made the first commercially viable digital fly-by-wire aircraft and the largest commercial airliner in the world. Another thing the world can thank Adolf Hitler for - Airbus. Listen to this fascinating and shocking story.
Tag words: de Havilland Comet; Comet 1; Super Constellation; Boeing 707; European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company; EADS; DaimlerChrysler Aerospace; Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm; MBB; Dornier; Messerschmitt; A300B; Ottobrun; Willy Messerschmitt; Me109; Me262; Albert Speer; Hitler; Auschwitz; Aron Tenenbaum; Airbus; Boeing 747 Jumbo; A380;
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27min
April 26, 2023 DZ Season 022 Part 09 Big Brands and the Nazis - Krispy Kreme Donuts and Prêt-à-Manger
What have Krispy Kreme Donuts, Prêt-à-Manger, Kylie Jenner Cosmetics, Coty Cosmetics, Calvin Klein Cosmetics, Dr Pepper, Jacobs Dowe Egberts (Moccona
Coffee for instance) and Durex Condoms got in common? The Nazi Party and the holocaust. Don’t believe me? Then you’d better stay tuned in. And by the way –
there are lots of songs with the words “Krispy Kreme” in the lyrics.
Tag words: Nazi Party; Adolf Hitler; JAB; Albert Reimann Senior; Albert Reimann Junior; German Workers’ Party; Munich Putsch; Benckiser; Third Reich; Emilie Landecker; Alfred Landecker; Belzec; Sobibor; Paul Werneburg; Endsieg; Krispy Kreme Donuts; Kylie Cosmetics; Coty; Calvin Klein Cosmetics; Prêt-à-Manger; Dr Pepper; Jacobs; Dowe Egberts; Moccona Coffee; Durex Condoms;
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23min
April 25, 2023 DZ Season 022 Part 08 Big Brands and the Nazis - Porsche
Ferdinand Porsche – the man behind the amazing iconic German brand who brought new standards of excellence to racing and sports cars, invented and manufactured the world’s first hybrid car in 1898 as well as designing an all electric car. He designed the first Volkswagen beetle or Adolf Hitler. Designed the legendary World War II German Tiger tank, as well as the world’s heaviest tank ever, the 200 ton super heavy tank, the Maus. After the war he founded the iconic Porsche company. What a story! Stay tuned.
Tag words: Ferdinand Porsche; Béla Egger Electrical company; Staatsgewerbeschule; Jakob Lohner & Co; Emperor Franz Joseph; Egger-Lohner; electric car; Semmering-Bergrennen race; Lohner-Porsche; hybrid; Emil Jellinek; Daimler Moteren Gesellschaft; Adolf Hitler; Volkswagen Beetle; Kubelwagen; Schwimmwagen; Tiger tank; Ferdinand; King Tiger; Jagdtiger; Maus; Cisitalia; Type 356;
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April 24, 2023 DZ Season 022 Part 07 Big Brands and the Nazis - Skoda
In 1945 it looked like Nazi Germany had lost the war, but there was a huge BUT - the new Škoda flying saucer looked unbeatable and light years ahead of anything the Allies could put into the skies against it. It could fly at 2900 kph. The fastest Allied plane could only fly at less than half that speed. It could stop
in mid-flight and hover. It could fly in any direction from wherever it was. It would have shot every Allied plane from the skies and given Germany total air supremacy. Final victory in World War II seemed to be in reach for the Germans. This Danger Zone programme looks at the Škoda company and the crucial part it played for Nazi Germany in World War II.
Tag words: Volkswagen; Audi; SEAT; Bentley; Bugatti; Lamborghini; Porsche; Ducati; Scania; MAN; Václav Laurin; Václav Klement; Czech Republic; Czechoslovakia; Skoda-Hispano-Suiza; Joseph Vollmer; PzKfw III; PzKfw 35(t); PzKw 38(t); A7 tank; Adolf Hitler; Sudetenland; Neville Chamberlain; Reinhard Heydrich; Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; Wansee; Edvard Beneš; Skoda Works; Albert Goring; flying saucer; climate change; Iron Curtain; Communists; Lada; Estelle sedan; Prague; Prasna Brana; Velvet Revolution;
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April 23, 2023 DZ Season 022 Part 06 Big Brands and the Nazis - Ford
Toward the end of his life Henry Ford was talking to a young kid by the name of John Dahlinger (more about him later in the programme). Henry was telling the kid how great his education had been when he was a boy, in a single-room schoolhouse. The kid listened to this stuff and then said “But sir, these are different times, this is the modern age and …” Henry cut him off before he could finish. “Young man I invented the modern age”. Now I know if you’re like me, you’re thinking what an arrogant arsehole. But the problem was he was right. And what a character Henry Ford was.
Tag words: history is bunk; Battle of Gettysburg; Clara Bryant; Thomas Edison; Quadricycle; The Ford Motor Company; Alexander Malcomson; Ford River Rouge factory; Adolf Hitler; Albert Speer; Ford Model T; The Dearborn Independent; The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion; International Jew; Mein Kampf; Consolidated Liberator B-24 bomber; Willows Run Factory; John Dahlinger
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April 21, 2023 DZ Season 022 Part 05 Big Brands And The Nazis - Random House.
His eyes burnt into hers. “There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.”
Said Christian Grey to Anastacia Steele in “Fifty Shades of Grey”. It was a sentiment that the owners of the publisher, Random House, came to understand during World War 2 when they were working with the Nazis.
Tag words: Gütersloh; Westphalia; Germany; Rhine River; Emperor Napoleon; Grande Armée; C Bertelsmann Verlag; Mohn family; Penguin Random House; Heinrich Mohn; Reinhard Mohn; Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler; Flieger am Feind; Joseph Goebbels;
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23min
April 20, 2023 DZ Season 022 Party 04 Big Brands and the Nazis - Adidas
The Adidas story is the story of an amazing man by the name of Adolf (Adi) Dassler – a man who revolutionised sports from World War I, through Nazi Germany and into the post-war world. He was the Michaelangelo of sports shoes. His equally amazing wife, Käthe, in an incredible story, saved the Adidas factory at the
end of World War II from being flattened by the Allies, then Adi and Käthe transformed the business into the top international brand of sports shoes. You have to love their story.
Tag words: Herzogenaurach; Bavaria; Germany; Adi Dassler; Rudolf Dassler; Karl Zech; Josef Sepp Erhardt; Gebrüder Dassler Sportschuhfabrik; Lina Radke; Josef Waitzer; Jesse Owens; Baldur von Shirach; Hitler; Panzershreck; Adidas; Puma; Uwe Seeler; Cassius Clay; Joe Frazier; 1954
World Cup;

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April 19, 2023 DZ Season 022 Part 03 Big Brands and the Nazis - IBM
This programme’s about a piano salesman who on the one hand helped the greatest armed forces on earth to a righteous victory and on the other hand helped the commission of one of the most vile crimes against humanity in history. So the lesson is, think twice before you invite a piano salesman into your house – you
could be biting off more than you can chew. This piano salesman was born in 1874 when the Stephen Foster song, Ring Ring de Banjo was popular.
Tag words: Herman Hollerith; electro magnetic punch cards; IBM; Willy Heidinger; Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft GmbH; Dehomag; Hitler; Machine Record Units; MRU; Manhattan Project; Auschwitz
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FAQs about The Danger Zone (DZ):

How many episodes does The Danger Zone (DZ) have?

The podcast currently has 271 episodes available.