The Nazis in Power | The Nuremberg Rallies | Part 2

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“We did not lose the war because our artillery gave out, but because the weapons of our mind didn’t fire”
In September 1934, the Nazis held their sixth annual party conference in the Bavarian city of Nuremberg. The location held a symbolic resonance for the party, being not only the embodiment of an uncorrupted medieval Germany, and the centre of the First Reich, but also a bedrock of anti-Semitism. It was therefore here that Hitler would lay out his terrifying vision for the mighty new empire’s future, promulging the superiority and purity of the Aryan bloodline. The rally was a pageant of ritualised fanaticism, recalling the majesty of Germany’s mythic past and all the heroism of classical antiquity. It was the first of many such extravagant displays, replete with parades of marching workers, bonfires, and swastikas, as the Nazi propaganda machine, under the leadership of the grotesque Joseph Goebbels, tightened its stranglehold over Germany. Through the popularisation of the radio, Nazi youth organisations, cinema, and even the Olympic Games, German minds were being steadily remoulded…
Join Tom and Dominic as they discuss the Nazis' gradual indoctrination of the German people in the build up to the Second World War, and the beginnings of Hitler’s plans for not only the Third Reich, but the entire world.
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*in history 😉

[@TrogART]

Went on to watch all the films you mentioned in the podcast to bring it more to life, could not help but notice the symbology in Olympia especially with the torch being carried from the ruins of the old to the new! Shame they have not restored and re orchestrated these old films just for posterities sake.

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So refreshing to hear so much that gets completely left out of the version presented by the American education system. I knew most of this thanks to one (hereditary Jewish female) college History teacher, but hadn’t heard it in decades. Thank you!

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[@woodoven]

Idea for a video: FDR v. Hitler 1933-45 - a comparison in rhetoric, oration, and the emergence of radio’s impact on political communication. I’ve always been fascinated how the two of them were in office in such closely matched timeframes. Just a thought for the team. Thank you.

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[@websitemartian]

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[@spitfirefrench]

Jo mas a puss

[@milztempelrowski9281]

Is there some kind of tape or half-transparent cover over Mr. Hollands camera? That has to be the most non-contrast video I have seen since 2005. Especially compared to Dominics. Nice Podcast.

[@JonathanRossRogers]

I suspect Tom just needed to turn on a light.

[@richardsmith579]

His wood burner is backing up.

[@riccardodececco4404]

why Nuremberg was chosen? Because it has a railway transport hub, and was and is one of the oldest German locations for major trade fairs - even today the fairs are an important part of the Nuremberg economy. Nuremberg therefore had the logistics, the hotels, inns, hostels and restaurants - also with the Zeppelin Airship field the space for mass gatherings. Nuremberg is also relatively close to Munich, the parties´ main centre....

[@Sean-p3o]

Any spa’s there. ?

[@helendoheny9459]

I absolutely love these podcasts. You are with me daily as I walk, thank you so much!

[@myriaddsystems]

My mum grew up in 1930s small town Austria. In 1938 an open top 6 wheeled Mercedes passed below her window, carrying a man wearing a swastika armband, which stopped at the bottom of the town to meet some "Alten Kampfers" (old fighters). At school, her normal teachers were replaced by party members who immediately instructed the students to let the teachers know, if parents ever said anything critical about the regime. My mother promptly told her parents about this- her loyalties remained always with her family- as with many other children...

[@motorcop505]

Thanks for sharing this information with us! It’s quite a memory.

[@AlGreenLightThroughGlass]

Leni followed the forces into Poland and was shocked by the cruelty. After that she wasn’t a fan.

[@pepleatherlab3872]

The circular poetic justice of Nuremberg being the beginning, with the rallies,..then the end with the trials and executions. Stomping out certain ideas takes a bit of ruthlessness.

[@MartyH99]

The charges at the Nuremberg Trials were very selective. Germans were executed for invading Poland, Russians weren't! Germans were executed for mass shootings, Russians weren't! Germans were executed for bombing civilians, British & Americans weren't! Germans were executed for running slave camps, Russians weren't! Germans were executed for shooting POWs, British, French, Russians, Americans weren't! The Selective nature of the prosecutions has more to do with politics than morality!

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[@ianbanks2844]

Thank you gentlemen for a very enjoyable listen .

[@simonwells2213]

I, like many, did the Rise of the Third Riech for A Level way back in 1984. With Rest is History, TIK History and WW2 in real-time I'd have got an A and been fascinated by it all. 1984 was only 50 yrs after the event.... almost touching distance. Scary stuff.

[@excellentcomment]

True. WW2 is still very close, especially to many 60+ year- olds whose parents who fought in it. Of course, all history and its lessons feel very relatable in the hands of such skilled historians.

[@kevinfile3690]

Oh my gosh, I about spit out my coffee when Tom said “Adolfina”!

[@trendandvalue]

my Lord, I have listened to practically every one of their podcasts and this is the first time I've seen Dominick and Tom's faces. they don't resemble Caesar or Churchill at all.

[@trendandvalue]

my wife insists that Dominick *does* look like Churchill

[@christophercarrier2902]

Squint more

[@anncouper-johnston6112]

The National Film Theatre ran the films ca. 1972; word went around that if you watched you'd come out Nazi. Since I've had access to the material I've realized how forbidding it must have seemed with those serried ranks of goose-stepping bodies. My mother was at a Furtwangler concert in Bonn in 1938. When it came to the national anthem and Nazi salute at the end, my mother didn't want to stand out and joined in. As a result she never blamed the Germans for their devotion. The BdM had an alternative title: Bald deutsche Mutter (Soon German Mother)

[@harismichail2]

Crickey! That was grreat! Btw I am just listening of the wage of war by Adam tooze. Maybe worth an episode?

[@thefruits1579]

Videos of every podcast please!

[@saphy45-uu8rd]

Great in depth discussion here.

[@anncouper-johnston6112]

This, in turn, illuminates the penalties for owning or using clandestine radios. My godmother told me they were absolutely forbidden to disturb their father at certain times. He was listening to clandestine radio broadcasts.

[@nathanpowell1500]

What's up with Tom's camera? Is he trying to project a gauzy ethereal existence? 😂

[@simongleaden2864]

02:17 "built up to a crescendo". A rare error by Tom Holland. You don't build up to a crescendo - a crescendo is a building up of volume, starting quietly and getting louder. You can build up to, say, a climax, but you can't build up to a crescendo.

[@williamjenkins4913]

The crescendo is both the build up and the peak. I dont know for sure which came first but I will guess it is the crest since it is in the name crescendo.

[@Macarite]

Who says you can’t build up to another build up? 🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@David_Lloyd-Jones]

Both Oxford and Cambridge allow both meanings, the gradual increase and the peak. Merriam-Webster, now fairly well along in their recovery from their shoddy 1990s, only suggest the gradual increase.

[@MetalSlug-ev5wu]

I think Tom was playing around with the filters on zoom

[@IKMCG]

are the video versions available somewhere for every podcast? I Got the premium membership thinking they'd be there but couldnt find them.

[@danielhall6354]

i don't think so - you can watch videos of the livestreams though

[@joshbazon2764]

Great video! I'm really enjoying your series on the psychological origins on Nazis in Germany, which was anti-intellectual, obsessed with human physiques, and bullied their youth into a war like mindset. It was the one of the scariest governments to ever come to power, which led to the rise of the international order led by the United States. Also, it was wonderful for Jessie Owen's and the American track team to show up the supposed master race in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

[@xcleanbeatsx]

One of the scariest governments to come to power hahaha. America takes the crown I'll tell you what.

[@spitfirefrench]

What an uninteresting opinion, what on earth possessed you from writing it? Moustache man bad.

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I think someone has downloaded some of your podcasts and republished them on KZbin with a nearly identical name.

[@minervacuervo4662]

Fun fact: several of the shots of “Triumph of the will” were copied in several Daenerys shots in Game of Thrones.

[@cocoruse]

Tom filming from foggy London 😂

[@Hindenzog]

Tom does look like one of the more inauspicious Emperors, whereas Dom is a 30s Liberal Patrician through and through.

[@daydays12]

Well observed! especially for 'Tom'

[@Truffle_Pup]

1:14 Dominic starting us off with the fundamentals of TRIH fandom 🤣

[@calibvr]

thanks this will help for my history exam

[@felicitymullins4643]

Why is the picture of Tom so bad compared with Dominic?

[@launiesoult3248]

I'm working at all 400 of the episodes

[@johnrawes4908]

This was a brilliant, if desperate series.

[@daveyhansen]

The frustrated artist thing is really kid of overworked. There are a gazillion artists who never had commercial success.

[@JackSchitt-p9t]

They have to make Hitler seem like a failure whose hatred developed for no reason other than personal failings or else they would need to understand him and check if his criticism were true (they were).

[@allensacharov5424]

I watch Triumph of the Will whenever I feel I need a lift. A great film, a great director, a great man

[@simoncollins6529]

The director of that film was a woman

[@allensacharov5424]

@@simoncollins6529 that I know.........

[@christophercarrier2902]

@@simoncollins6529I don’t think that’s the man the OP meant …

[@Hartley_Hare]

Ah, the internet edgelord.

[@Onetwelvefourth]

The Spartan inspired youth movement sounds eerily similar to Gordonstoun school which Prince Phillip was so proud of and Charles was forced to endure.

[@LarthV]

I think that was quite popular back in the day. And if you happen to be more of a "physical" type that is genuinely not interested in books but likes sports, it need not even be a bad thing, if they skip on the whole indoctrination and superiority stuff. But for someone how _is_ more interested in books than in sports (which I understand Charles was, as I would have been) the idea is absolutely horrific...

[@stevendurrant1724]

Love the show but guys: one does NOT ‘build up’ to a crescendo. The crescendo is the build up.

[@TheHesseJames]

You build up to the built up and you crescendo to the crest.

[@danielhall6354]

After listening to this on Spotify i must have spent an entire evening watching Triumph of the will and Olympia and interviews with Leni Riefenstahl

[@anncouper-johnston6112]

I got really worried at one point .... why, just WHY, was I so obsessed with the Nazis .... Just recently I learned that professional historians can't leave it alone, either. I think it's the paradox of it: explaining how a jumped-up little Corporal got to be Chancellor (and that in an age when class still mattered). A whole evening of Leni Riefenstahl sounds like you've caught the same bug ... I studied German long years ago, and we had a couple of lectures on Nazi propaganda. I also asked my godmother how people felt in 1933, and she described it as 'ein leichtes Unbehagen' (somewhat uneasy).

[@TheHesseJames]

@@anncouper-johnston6112I watched and listened to a couple of speeches of him. He was a good orator but not an excellent one. The speeches are a bit lengthy for our times and he had a base set of elements which he used all the time so they are quite repetitive.

[@gwcstudio]

Another classic bit of nazi cinema is to look for the performance of beethoven's ninth conducted by Furtwangler for Hitler's birthday. It is fascinating and bizarre - the soaring music and an audience full of SS soldiers with bandaged faces. At the end, Hitler goes to congratulate Furtwangler, and holds out his hand, but the conductor turns away as if he didn't notice him. Furtwangler was jewish and helped many of the Berlin symphony orchestra escape Germany. I am not sure who shot it but I believe it was also Reifenstahl, or someone copying her style.

[@YourTripleScorpio]

First time seeing Queen Live Aid, immediately got Nuremburg vibes?

[@Wacoal34d]

Be careful not to conflate the Nazis with the German army. They are not the same, the German army although subjucated to Hitler, maintained its own culture which was not much different from armies elsewhere.

[@TheHesseJames]

They committed a whole lot of war crimes though. A whole other level as compared to WW I. They were far from being honorable.

[@nigelmansfield3011]

I love Leni Riefenstahl's film. Fantastic.

[@sifridbassoon]

My German professor in college said that the BDM (Bund Deutsche Mädel) - League of German Maidens were also referred to by the Hitler Youth as (Bund Deutsche Matratze) - League German Matresses (since they were so easy to bed, or (Bund Deutsche Milchkuhe) - League German Milkcows - because the tightly laced tops of their uniform positioned their breasts front and center.

[@williamjenkins4913]

That wasnt unintended. Eugenics also requires a whole bunch of correct breeding.

[@TheHesseJames]

My granny was in the BDM and was commended to be very good “breeding material” during an inspection by some Nazis. Those were the days, I guess.

[@reneprovosty7032]

I understand why the war crime trials were held here.

[@plintdillion286]

Is there no child allowance in the UK?

[@maryhaddock9145]

Sounded exactly like Ernst Zundel at the start.

[@wendyknight9574]

At Nuremberg, Hitler created a super organism.

[@barbararice6650]

Of course people were sobbing with enthusiasm when Baldwin with his thumbs behind his braces, delivered the good news about inflation ✌️😐

[@Vintagevanessa99]

Lessons from history

[@FiveLiver]

26:07 To be fair these are quite good policies.

[@paulcochrane1028]

I’m beginning to think this Hitler guy was a bad ‘Un!

[@Zifferony]

The imitation of Hitler at the start of the video didn't sound anything near to the anger with which he would have shouted 😄. Put more oomph into it please. Also... Doesn't imitating hitler amount to cultural appropriation? 🙃

[@TheHesseJames]

Most of the time he wasn’t shouting in his speeches, they were typically longer than one hour and a bit long winded. It’s just that we see always the same clips.

[@TheLeonhamm]

Why Nuremberg? For much the same reasons that Moscow, a place of the distant past in 1917, became the resonant focal point among Bolsheviks by 1918. Its political leadership was in secure hands, it was a hub of history, finance, and utility, and it made an ideal place to break with recent past failures with an easily romanticised resurrection into something entirely new (cf the Brezhnev era film: The Irony of Fate .. a darkly humorous warning on how State-ist dreams of More's Utopia here and there become depressive yet functional apartment buildings - everywhere). ;o)

[@brianfleming8561]

Your description of the ideological indoctrination of young people in Nazi Germany sounds like the USA nowadays. It's scarily familiar.

[@JackSchitt-p9t]

In what way are American youths being indoctrinated? Into right-wing ideologies?

[@holysab7]

@@JackSchitt-p9t he's probably talking about "the woke" (kind of real) or he's conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism (preposterous)

[@inigoromon1937]

​@@JackSchitt-p9tthat thing with the flag every morning? Flags everywhere? The USA are the BEST country in the world? Moms for Liberty censoring books? Should I go on....?

[@ulrikjensen6841]

Why didn't foreigners watch with dismay these events; were noone wondering about the SWASTIKAS and the "HEIL HITLERS!"? No journalists? No authors?

[@kensurrency2564]

@@JackSchitt-p9t For a long time, American schoolchildren were highly encouraged (in my experience, _expected_ ) to stand up, cover their hearts, and pledge allegiance to The Flag, at the start of every school day. That’s just the beginning of the conditioning. Add to that the biased version of history and the mythos of “American exceptionalism”, you can see where I’m going. Media, academia, etc. All states indoctrinate their citizens to one degree or another.

[@juicyfruit4378]

Nuremberg was chosen due to it’s affiliation and historical status of German aristocracy, royalty and location. Many Kings were crowned here and the city’s rich historical legacy would ensure “legitimacy” of the Nazi Party.

[@BingoFrogstrangler]

My uncle who is German said lots of Germans wanted to laugh because when Hitler spoke it sounded like a B-road accent Yorkshireman trying to talk BBC English .Austrian accent I suppose.

[@TP-om8of]

@28:30 Huh? How is thinking that men and women aren’t equal (the same) “pseudoscientific”? That sounds like the kind of smear you see all the time in Wikipedia.

[@JackSchitt-p9t]

Libs will lie about anything to defend their god.

[@johnmc3862]

It’s important to distinguish Hitlers leadership was also achieved under the guise of heavy Propoganda.

[@joanofarc6402]

This German accent is everything! 😂😂

[@1tjos]

44:50 Exactly the kind of things people say now about Qatar after the world cup.

[@samsungtap4183]

Nurenburg rallie l can only wonder if they they had portaloo's ?

[@kingkenny2797]

Genghis Khan was far worse than Hitler but he is not thought of or spoke of as badly as Hitler 🤔 he is actually looked upon as a great military leader. I find this weird, it is only because Hitler is closer to us in time. Both were barbaric and cruel leaders but I do find it odd that people tend to look on mass murders from early history very different to the most recent leaders like Hitler or Stalin.

[@LarthV]

On the one hand, you are absolutely right with the time aspect. On the other hand, in my understanding of Genghis Khan there was quite an easy way to avoid cruelty: Capitulate and do what you are told. The mongols were absolute _savages_ when you resisted, but rather lenient when you complied. Hitler on the other hand would neither spare Slavs nor Jews when they complied.

[@thanksfernuthin]

I've never seen a video camera over many decades be that terrible at contrast or gain. Someone with an aggressive, almost criminal, ignorance of video cameras must have tried to "adjust it".

[@ChrisBrown-or8ky]

My goodness. Considering how i enjoyed PE at my lower middle class mileau schooling... However did i not succumb to the charms of the neo nazis nearby?

[@LarthV]

Because it is very likely they left out the indoctrination part. Sports alone does not make you a good Nazi unless they also tell you that you are superior to anybody else...

[@simongleaden2864]

That Hitler speech - how wise not to attempt the accent!!

[@williamevans9426]

How was the sheer number of rally participants brought into and out of Nuremberg, and were they accommodated locally? The event was an abomination, of course, but the logisitics must have been impeccable.

[@williamjenkins4913]

There is a reason "German" is still a byword for organized and logistical.

[@TheAnadromist]

Makes me wonder what's going on with the Swifties. Unlike the Beatles, who quit over the insanity of their shows, Taylor knows how to control a crowd. No comparisons here. Just wondering.

[@howardgstrecke]

Sounds like the MAGA playbook

[@AlGreenLightThroughGlass]

Yep

[@TheHesseJames]

Trump actually copies a lot of speech figures from Hitler and Goebbels. I am pretty sure he has them from Stephen Miller.

[@casparblattmann755]

Math is absolutely used in schools sub schools in the United States to condition children where does school soar depends on the state.

[@daydays12]

What an accent!!!

[@Elitist20]

As the Australian band TISM put it in their song (actually spoken word rant) ‘U2 Brute’: ‘Adolf Hitler did not die - he invented rock’n’roll.’

[@jacquelineleitch7050]

Healthy bodies on MDA and all forms of stimulants. Lol

[@gizabitadat1499]

over in ireland you had the god squad classes right through out all schooling same type of mind control that included abuse of all types all under government iron fist , V SAD

[@gerarddearie-zd2gb]

I am getting less Hitler and more Anthony Hopkins' Van Helsing accent from the 90's Dracula film. I am not sure I would go along with Hitler being against book-learning, I was under the impression, he himself read obsessively.

[@EM-fh2tx]

Pity about the fake accent

[@drgrahambeards9776]

I hated PE !

[@brianfleming8561]

He didn't convey anything of Hitler. It was just a preposterous caricature of a cartoon German speaking English.

[@jacquelineleitch7050]

I disagree. It wasn’t a horrible attempt at an accent. And he did get the rhythm and cadence going to a reasonable facsimile. He at the very least brought to mind Hitler screaming Acid rock at the legions. As people in general are confused by the effete prettiness of Hitler’s hand movements and go for instead his allegro snaps, I thought that he also caught the sense of Hitler’s acted pretence at Germanic aristocratic sensibility.

[@jonahtwhale1779]

They have a a real downer on Hitler. Was he that different? Stalin, Mao, Tojo all did worse. Few of his contemporaries were angels or averse to using violence against their opponents or allies eg US used violence in their invasion of Haiti during 1930s.

[@kensurrency2564]

The anglo-american story is that hitler was the worst person in history. Happened as soon as churchill and his friends took control of the narrative. I like Chamberlain. He was a man of peace. The words ‘appeasement’ and ‘antisemitism’ have no meaning any more. We have a big problem if we cannot ask certain questions or criticize certain people or narratives.

[@cocoruse]

It’s like asking “which is your favorite disease?”

[@yallahyallah4220]

the answer is Wagner

[@anthonyfuqua6988]

Bayreuth

[@thomaswilburn6263]

is it anglophobic if i said tom looks like he drinks baby blood

[@christophercarrier2902]

A tad harsh

[@moniquedelaney7958]

Restrain from this German accent when mimicking Hitler . It’s insulting to contemporary Germans who speak English to too often anglophones who mostly speak only their native tongue

[@TheHesseJames]

I’m not offended as a German. It just doesn’t make much sense imitating Hitler in English. I can do a pretty good one in German. I sometimes do it when reading baking recipes to my wife. Always a blast.

[@moniquedelaney7958]

@ my ex partner , a honest leftist , trilingual, always had to hear people imitating his accent ( he is Swiss ! ) . You would be lucky in Australia to count 1% of the population who speak a foreign language . An accent does not make a Nazi or fascist . Other things do .

[@kyleklukas4808]

Catholic leaning ...not prusse

[@Dabhach1]

Well, I think everybody should download this episode and keep it handy for the next time the left tries to deny the Nazis were of their number.

[@humblescribe8522]

God knows how you managed to get that from this podcast.

[@anncouper-johnston6112]

They had a strong Socialist streak: full title National SOCIALIST German Workers Party (NSDAP). Hitler had Stalin as an ally (partly to be able to make a pincer movement against Britain?). Whatever Churchill thought about being an ally of Stalin, he considered it vital to defeat Hitler. Stalin made sure (d**n sure!) he kept his ill-gotten gains from the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, so we had gone to war to defend Poland from one aggressor, only to allow her to be put under the heel of another.

[@humblescribe8522]

East Germany called itself the German Democratic Republic, but it wasn't democratic. The Nazis were not socialist in any sense of the word, and indeed persecuted socialists and communists almost as much as they did gypsies and jews. The Molotov Ribbentrop pact was a stalling technique to buy time before the Nazis could fight what they regarded as their ultimate enemy - communism.

[@Dabhach1]

@humblescribe8522 They were NATIONAL socialists who persecuted INTERNATIONAL socialists the way Sunni and Shiite Muslims persecute each other today. Both sects are Muslim, and both parties -- Nazi and communist -- were socialists. The rest is gaslighting.

[@fender3873]

Hitlers entire purpose was to destroy the leftist Marxists, wipe out russia and conquer Europe with a racially pure traditional imperial state. He was not shy about it, he said so over and over again. Why don't you ask a nazi if they are left wing?

[@viraeus]

His name is not "Görbels", it's "Göbbels". Please try and be more accurate, don't just blindly follow other people's pronounciation.

[@annemarie2200]

Both pronounce the name correctly.

[@viraeus]

@@annemarie2200 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:De-Paul_Joseph_Goebbels.oga

[@JuneAdams-li9sy]

They speak English. The 'r' creeps in because of their dialect. Their pronunciation is correct.

[@TheHesseJames]

By and large they do a good job with the pronunciation. They constantly fail with the “ch” though, but that one is pretty difficult for all non native speakers.

[@spitfirefrench]

My problem with it is that it resembled communism too much, using the ‘classlessness’ to appeal to the left. Evola wrote a great book detailing how they should have been more right wing and preserved the natural order.