A. N. Wilson - Hitler - Historical Biography Audiobook

[@PacificEdibleSeaweed]

Favorite passage; “The tantrum as a workable substitute for practical common sense. Presumably he learned from childhood that most people would do almost anything to avoid a scene. So a willingness to make scenes, explosive scenes over the most trivial of upsets or for no observable reason at all would give him power over almost anyone he came into contact with.”

[@markkavanagh7377]

So he was Woke then! 😀

[@sebastianmelmoth9100]

Trump, in a nutshell.

[@jackhowland3737]

Leftist's particular way of bullying the individual or the Government. Twitter is nothing but public tantrums.

[@tonydevos]

​@@markkavanagh7377rightwingers and magas dont throw tantrums?

[@Styxswimmer]

​@@tonydevosBLM and antifa burning cities ring a bell? And don't say Jan 6th. That lasted 2 hours and caused a couple million in damage. The Floyd riots lasted for months and caused 2 billion in damage.

[@chadpenner5059]

This 'reader' is top notch.....one of the best I've heard to date ♥

[@weilandiv8310]

This is a real gem here, folks. Nicely written, beautifully read. Enjoy.

[@donalddees5503]

Ralph Cosham is the best narrator.

[@thomaslowery359]

He has the 'voice' not a question in the world about that .... Soothing, engrossing, authoritative, believable to a extreme .... Have you heard 'Bloodlands' ? Another masterpiece :-)

[@donalddees5503]

@@thomaslowery359 I have. My first exposure to him was when he narrated 'Inferno' by Max Hastings. It was also about WWII and it is the most compelling audiobook I have ever heard.

[@chadpenner5059]

amen brother...he is special

[@timmi59]

@@thomaslowery359Thanks for the tip. I have it now. 📖 🔈

[@wuteech4335]

I’m always thankful for the reading of Ralph Cosham. ❤

[@atsuva]

1:23:15 chapter 4. 1:47:58 chapter 5. 2:17:00 chapter 6. 3:31:21 chapter 8. 4:13:02 chapter 10. 4:34:57 chapter 11. 4:50:42 chapter 12.

[@bobsmudger3979]

Thank you!

[@PeterChoyce]

Having read over 200 books on the subject of Hitler, Germany WW2, this one here is a shining jewel. It takes a much different approach than simple linear history books. There is a main theme of a Wagnerian Opera, a bullshit proclamation of a personal struggle and a heroic effort to not just dispel theories of evil genius, rather that Adolf was a complete and utter asshole from day 1 to the his final day. Right now this is my favorite book on the man

[@elrjames7799]

@Peter Choyce. Excellent synopsis of Wilson's approach: 'let's proceed from the premise that Hitler was an ass hole' and then assemble an array of confirmation bias to support it. Wilson is a clever journalist and creative writer who appeals more to a 'lowest common denominator' jingoistic readership entrenched in the mainstream English narrative, than those who have actually studied the subject academically. He seems a lot less bothered about drawing sensible conclusions based upon actual historicity. For example, at 29:00 onward: sure: let's just accept that Hitler's medal was awarded for being 'close' to officers: nudge, nudge, wink, wink, know what I mean. By Wilson's logic, awards for gallantry to the ordinary soldier in the German army (not in the British army mark you, perish the thought) were 'dished out' more on the basis of them 'toadying up to their superiors' behind the lines than actual bravery in the field. In reality, the Iron Cross First Class was awarded for a *second* recognised citation for bravery, and was the equivalent of the Military Medal in the British Army.

[@Madmen604]

@@elrjames7799 a fanatic, an intensely angry, willful and bitter character related to a history of severe abuse by his uncle/ father, possibly a family history of incestuous marriage, and growing up in a shabby lower middle class without much social status. His father probably abused his mother too. I agree that the party structure Hitler devised was modeled on Catholic ritual and authority. One wonders how many of those school boys were physically abused at home and sexually abused at school. I think those early experiences were critical to his personality development. One can even see his egotism and grandiosity in his school picture. So as an intense personality seeking glory, I can see him as a runner in the war, exposing himself to danger every time.

[@Madmen604]

Much like Trump.

[@elrjames7799]

@@Madmen604 Sure: even angry, willful characters and abused Catholics are awarded medals for bravery in wartime. How does that demonstrate A N Wilson's assertion (Iron Crosses given for toadying up to officers) as being a sound one?

[@gatormcklusky5850]

@@Madmen604 F.U.

[@NeguseM-z2o]

Please can you upload English subtitles thank you very much.

[@wwjudasdo]

You know, the more I read about this Hitler the more I don't like him.

[@gatormcklusky5850]

the dude was pure evil, The US gov in office today is running along the same line as he ran back then Their not even trying to hide it, It's all worked into the so called new green deal.

[@unclecarmine6839]

@@gatormcklusky5850 The US gov is MARXIST, not Nazi...it is 100% anti-White... Put the bong down

[@gatormcklusky5850]

@@unclecarmine6839 i love people who feel the need to name everything as if it matters ..put the dilldo down

[@unclecarmine6839]

@@gatormcklusky5850 Tell that to your mother.

[@BackBruck]

It's a good listen.

[@Swellington_]

I think Hitler's paintings weren't horrible really, I mean sure, they weren't gonna get worldwide attention or anything but he could paint/draw better than a lot of people but I imagine an artistic college or whatever wasn't interested in "decent" painters and doodlers, and where was it, in Vienna, wasn't that something like the center of European culture and art at the time? So it's no wonder he wasn't accepted into their school

[@thomaslowery359]

I think "pedestrian" was the right word description of his work :-(

[@jamesewanchook2276]

@@thomaslowery359 I read somewhere in this book Hitler was also an average pianist...

[@folkblueswriter]

Very good announcer and story!

[@neal.karn-jones]

1:23:15 Ch 4, 1:47:58 Ch 5 2:17:05 Ch 6

[@RolandWieffering1]

01:50:02 Chapter 6..... last stop

[@poundshopcicero3089]

A worthwhile listen, fair, balanced and at times, insightful. Thanks for posting it. 👍

[@tommyagro444]

Where did this audiobook come from?

[@annemoefaauo7055]

Thank you. It is Hitlers power to manipulate people en masse to behave in a way that absolutely contradicts their values and beliefs that interests me. What makes people surrender their autonomy and logic to follow a person, robotically and collectively purely on the basis of how they speak to the masses? We see examples of this in modern times where mob hysteria leads to destruction and violence.

[@frogsgottalent1106]

ATROCITY PROPAGANDA - " Atrocity propaganda is how we won the war. And we're only really beginning with it now ! We will continue this atrocity propaganda, we will escalate it until nobody will accept even a good word from the Germans, until all the sympathy they may still have abroad will have been destroyed and they themselves will be so confused that they will no longer know what they are doing. Once that has been achieved, once they begin to run down their own country and their own people, not reluctantly but with eagerness to please the victors, only then will our victory be complete. IT WILL NEVER BE FINAL. Re-education needs careful tending, like an English lawn. Even one moment of negligence, and the weeds crop up again - those indestructible weeds of historical TRUTH. " - SeftonDalmer (1904-1979), former British Chief of ' Black Propaganda ': Said after the German surrender in 1945 in a conversation with the German Professor of lnternation Law Dr.FriedrichGrimm.

[@angelofinaldi5918]

Just shows you ...the lack of judgment...people have ...I blame them...for being stupid ..like cult leaders ...who ripp ..gullible hands in the air . .followers ...of their money .

[@Freefolkcreate]

Indeed, and listening to gulag archipelago is also quite enlightening to this now commonly used approach to tyranny. It shakes me to my bones to realize the deathly powers of governments, especially the US. It should never have become what it is. Each generation sold a piece of themselves off to get along, and now it is insolvent, and completely corrupt.

[@rubenjames7345]

Jeez, this is Hitler. Is it really necessary to do a hatchet job on him?

[@ludvig5597]

Actually, I'd say the hatchet jobbery brought a rather interesting perspective on the man. So, yes.

[@cheechdubinsky6709]

01:02:00 chapter 3

[@lynneivison5773]

Brilliant - undermined by final remarks that Religeous Instruction should be replaced by typewriting.

[@bronco297]

Thank you for sharing 🙏

[@eddieeclark314]

No problem

[@tommyagro444]

@@eddieeclark314 I have some books from audible I would like to upload. Is that difficult to do?

[@eddieeclark314]

@@tommyagro444 shouldn't be just hit that little camera shaped icon with a plus in the center top right corner. next to the bell

[@jamesm.taylor6928]

As mentioned three hours forty night or so minutes in, Rudolf Hess at least tried to do something to avoid the terrible future he believed would be the consequences of war with England. Not only was he alone among Hitler's "Inner Circle" to try and do something in obedience to his sense of morality and conscious instead of blindly following orders he was also alone in seeing catastrophe in the future because at that time German military feats had astounded the world and given the German military machine an aura of invincibility, even in their own minds. So Hess risks his own life and freedom in his desperate misguided last ditch effort to avoid war with England. Now comes the part I don't really understand. To my knowledge Hess wasn't involved in the military planning to that point and certainly not Barbarossa which was in the future. Hess was then out of favor with Hitler to begin with and even at the height of his favor never had much to do with the serious planning but at the time of his flight anything his food know of future planning would have been second hand. He also had little or nothing to do with the oppression of the Jewish people at the time although he was just as antisemitic. My point of that I don't see exactly how he fit into the allied indictments of war criminals post war. Hey he was punished far more severely than any other Nazi outside those who received death penalties and even more so then many of those as quite a few had death sentences reversed and were released after ten or more years. Not Hess however, he alone was refused release. This makes me believe that there was something much bigger involving Hess that was kept secret from the public. There really is no other explanation. The allied governments went to tremendous effort and expense to keep Hess in a prison all by himself for decades. Each nation would take over the duties of guarding him and this guard detachment was kept solely to guard Hess. It was a huge cost, effort, and pain. This is why so many thought the Russians eventually murdered him and didn't buy the story that Hess hung himself in the greenhouse he grew things in in the prison yard. After Hess supposedly killed himself the prison was torn down immediately and the land sold to commercial developers as it had become extremely desirable land over the years. Hess didn't have much time anyway as it was since he was 90 years old when he died and if he actually did kill himself I can understand why as being constantly alone with absolutely no hope of release must have been horrible for him, especially since he was seriously mentally ill. In any case these are questions that will never be answered sadly.

[@Bestroblozianxxx]

James M. Taylor no excuses he was a fucking Nazi, to many of those bastards got away.they all should’ve got the death penalty.

[@MoCrush]

He went at the instruction of Hitler. Hitler wanted UK & US to sit out while he went to war with Russia.

[@dannywlm63]

Don't make sense persecuting hess I have always thought that and would love to know the truth behind it

[@schaef74]

David Irving has interesting insights on this subject

[@matthew-jy5jp]

They murdered millions of people including disabled germans. Their own people. Not to mention millions of others. If you feel sympathy for any of these monstrous evil people ya might want to get your head examined

[@BruceRioux]

A really neat book.

[@stevefranckhauser7901]

Without a doubt....this is the hands down...no doubt about it.... best analysis ever of Hitler. I get that Wilson has serious issues with Christianity, but he somehow manages to draw his analogies without resorting to insults. Wilson has insight without peer. His judicious use of words should be studied by all. I'm going to buy a copy of this gem.

[@terminator-qf6vw]

many mistakes and plain bad fact checking for instance sophie scholl was not a cathclick she was a protestant

[@jeeps7er]

Not sure if you are being sarcastic. This book is enjoyable and gives some insights. However, virtually every word is an insult or derogatory observation on Hitler or the Nazis. I'm not saying they are undeserved but a historical book should not depend on the personal biases of the author. It reduces a potentially useful reference to a work of tittle tattle and political opinion.

[@stevefranckhauser7901]

@@terminator-qf6vw you are correct, Sophie was a Lutheran. It was Von Stauffenberg who was Catholic.

[@frans7995]

@@jeeps7er I mean, we all agree that they were pieces of shit?

[@gatormcklusky5850]

@@jeeps7er God knows we can't have personal biases unless there yours then their A Ok.

[@allanmcinnes4765]

Bob Dylan told me more about 20th century warfare and the depths of human depravity than my history school teachers ever did. This was his gift in the true oral tradition of "The Bard" that had so much power and is still alive today. Shoot me down in flames if you like

[@overworlder]

The text doesn’t make it clear that the German army was beaten decisively in the field in August and October 1918.

[@eddieeclark314]

You talk like war is a game but how many German wives will never see there husbands again

[@overworlder]

@@eddieeclark314 - No, I am pointing out the text has omissions. Why do you only refer to Germans? If their lives were so valuable they should have kept the peace, not start world wars.

[@leravishaynes1845]

No but it does make it clear the devastating war reperations they were forced to pay due to that decisive beating they recieved in the field.

[@overworlder]

@@leravishaynes1845 - Refusing to acknowledge the German army was beaten in the field was part of the Dolchstoss lie spread by the German nationalist right. The reparations were renegotiated multiple times so they were less onerous. It was only the Great Depression and the erroneous economic orthodoxy of the time that gave Hitler his chance. Not reparations. Although tbh Austria did start the war with and because of Germany’s famous ‘blank cheque’.

[@SnowyOwl2000]

I wonder how many editions of Mein Kampf ended up on the book burning bonfires. For me Mein Kampf was Mein Kampf zu lesen.

[@myriaddsystems]

My mum was born in the same suburb of Linz

[@albie7581]

Very good narrative

[@johnelliott0101]

Absolutely

[@sebastianmelmoth9100]

This is a fine screed -- but a better book to read if you want to understand the Hitler beyond the psychopathic cruelty and insane nihilism is Speer's book about the Reich.

[@seek4truth]

What a bad start for a book ... starts with a lobg rant and opinions instead of starting with a young hitler's life facts ...

[@Sebastian-xg6lw]

Same old l8es about him

[@dougstyles]

This guy roasts Adolph constantly. Absolutely awesome.

[@benedict7335]

Excellently read, thank you. The book is a bit disappointing. At times it wavers between being a history of WW2 and a biography. It would benefit from being shorter and more focused.

[@jellybean2068]

Great listen.

[@selfcensorship1]

I enjoyed it because I love the concept of audiobooks and am on a binge of these topics, but this is the most biased piece of media that I ever heard on the subject, and it even regressed to dog baiting in the final 30 minutes.

[@winnietheshrew2957]

What he does in the final 30 minutes is hold a mirror up to us and our time. I see nothing wrong in that, on the contrary. We're waging dishonest "regime-change wars" on preferably black and brown people whose leaders we don't like and who are too weak to stand a fighting chance against our gargantuan war machine. Afghanistan, Irak, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan... the list is endless. Our speciality is inciting highly profitable proxy wars. We get regime change and we can sell lots of weapons to the "moderate" islamists and other assorted cuttroats on our payroll. But we're certainly not as bad as Hitler, are we.

[@selfcensorship1]

@@winnietheshrew2957 This is a unique interpretation of the last 30 minutes. Even more so, considering that the book was published less than 6 months after Ghadaffi's death. I wonder how much it took to write it. To what extent do you consider the so called "Arab Spring" an influence on the author or at least, on the book itself?

[@DerekB99]

What is "dog baiting"?

[@juusohamalainen7507]

Otherwise a reasonable history but it was spoiled by Pride stuff. That foes not interest a bit normal people.

[@jamesm.taylor6928]

"That does not interest a bit normal people" ....Uhmmmm.... I do not get what you're trying to say here. Pls decipher? Thank you!

[@cotachrome5797]

James M. Taylor I think perhaps the person is saying that this author composed a biography of Hitler from the clear perspective of a foe.

[@SerikPoliasc]

Jackson Margaret Rodriguez Anthony Harris Kimberly

[@WalkleyDennis-k3t]

Walker Anna Thompson Robert Harris Maria

[@jamesm.taylor6928]

Pronounced HI DRICK not Hey Drick. Does nobody care about doing things right, error free, great quality? I get messing up on long tough words, messing up.hydrick? It's easy.and common

[@Bestroblozianxxx]

James M. Taylor You get messed up on long words he gets messed up on a short word who cares, u read a book and you enjoyed it right, so that’s what counts.

[@winnietheshrew2957]

You're only half right. There is no "ck" at the end, but a "ch". It's a sound that doesn't exist in English. It can be pronounced either softly or as a guttural sound, depending on the vowel that precedes it.

[@ftumschk]

@@winnietheshrew2957 Indeed, although the guttural "ch" does appear unofficially in English - e.g. in onomatopœic words like "Yeuch" or "Bleugh" - so it baffles me when English speakers so often fail to pronounce the "ch" in Scottish, Welsh or German words. It's as if a mental block kicks in when it comes to foreign languages.

[@matthillman8728]

It's spelled Heydrich not Hydrick. Let's get the spelling right if you are gonna make such a stink about the pronunciation. Geez, Louise!

[@ДмитрийДепутатов]

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[@TrumanBurbankFE]

FBI documents revealed that they indeed had observations of Adolf escaping to Peron's Argentina and that he died there in 1962.

[@conlawmeateater8792]

His staff burned his body to ashes.

[@juancarloslopez-corbalan]

Empezamos mal.

[@jingham9990]

This one is a laugh a minute

[@Geniusthecat]

Nah my Grammah is.

[@N8TVTripper]

Kaiser was progressive not right wing

[@peterwisk6797]

Get it right you nong

[@chadgun4135]

So Mr H wasn't a wage slave? Good for him

[@Suite_annamite]

Anyone who isn't a wage slave is still a service slave; because if someone doesn't make a salary, they are still living off of someone else's expendable money. This is why *the customer really is always right.*

[@panchovalance6270]

:)

[@markgentle3297]

V y7ygy😅

[@richardjones8236]

Just another endless rambling of how terrible Hitler was. He was lazy, stupid, shiftless, and so on. I'm not trying to apologize for his actions or justify his policies. I'm just tired of author after author copying one another without really getting down to what made Hitler tick.

[@mikelheron20]

Awww... They should have just left out the bad things about him. The biography could have been written in one sentence. "He loved his dog." (Loved him so much he had the cyanide intended for himself tested on him first )

[@richardjones8236]

@@mikelheron20 ..!..

[@blueasblueis]

The book you're looking for is "Explaining Hitler" by Ron Rosenbaum. Has his baby pic on the cover.

[@MrTravelWriter]

Jordan Peterson: “[I can imagine] taking someone who just got off a transport train and have them carry a one-hundred-pound sack of wet salt from one side of the compound to the other... People don’t [like to picture themselves doing that], because it’s too frightening. But I know perfectly well that I could do that sort of thing... and maybe I could even enjoy it...”

[@oldtimer7635]

Intonation of this reader is a bit anoying, time to time.

[@atamtaki9336]

Biography??? It is a rant on Hitler, not a biography. Very, very poor. And poorly read.

[@iamahappybordercollie7597]

Ur a closet Nazi or just an idiot

[@emil8679]

This guy sounds pretty bad

[@cb8548]

Greatest Man to live !!

[@JoeyMartz]

................ the author? meh.

[@ameliaflowers9836]

@@JoeyMartz C B is a troll

[@markm.9458]

as told by a Jew.