The Nazis in Power | The Night of the Long Knives | Part 1

[@plitzko11]

Hope you guys keep on doing the video format! Love it with the other „Rest is“ shows!

[@AviMitrani]

Don't know what I think about it...

[@philiphorner31]

Our antifa is a lot like the SA.

[@hellohihahahahhaldufuduai]

@@philiphorner31fighting fascism and being a fascist are exactly the same things! you’re so smart!

[@19374hklmaq]

Just be quite you peasant.

[@formaldehyde3864]

As much as I enjoy the regular podcast I occasionally get distracted when only listening to audio. This helps me soak up every detail. Love this new format!

[@scarlettfinlay1209]

So glad to see you're doing these again! Already listened to the episode but watching this as well! 😊

[@danielcliment8251]

this podcast is even better when you can see these two getting all excited when talking!

[@paulastalas8691]

Already listened to this episode on sporify. But Tom's facial expresions while doing a german accent in the intro enhances the viewing experience.

[@andrewcorrie8936]

You mean his "Inspector Clouseau" impression.

[@philnorris9179]

pakistani surely?

[@doggerthebruce82]

So happy to see another one of these. I've listened to the podcast already, but I like seeing the facial expressions and pictures - so watched this too. I appreciate the extra work that goes in to doing these. 🙂

[@Mute_Nostril_Agony]

I can imagine Göring at that wedding reception, saying “Are you going to eat those sausages?”

[@user-cy4fz7mo7v]

I can imagine Starmer at that wedding reception saying “Are you going to eat them hostages “ 😂

[@steve.the.farmer]

LOVE the video format.

[@beerprem]

Welcome back fellas. Its good to see you back on yt

[@sfwplant]

"This paints the Nazi's in a very bad light" is a lovely quote.

[@patl709]

Who knew the Nazi’s were such naughty boys?

[@DeaconNorton]

​@@patl709 Holocaust what?

[@sifridbassoon]

"that's very harsh..." I love it when they say that. So understated. So English.

[@Richard-d1y]

So true. The more i learn about this nazi lot, the less i like them.

[@JoeFabeets]

I could listen to you gentlemen speak about this forever.

[@mpersad]

Terrific analysis. As others have said, please keep these YT vids going. So much easier to find than other such videos on YT.

[@user-xx3zy9pn9b]

Really enjoying the video format!

[@kevinmcinerney1959]

This is a wonderful way of delivering a narrative. Best thing on the internet. And with a faint smell of sulphur.

[@blehoo1]

Honestly - u guys are absolute historical gold. Thanks so much for the content. Brilliant stuff.

[@bakk98]

It was a very interesting experience seeing your faces for the first time, after listening to your podcast for 2 years and getting used to your voices. Love the podcast, appreciations from the United States.

[@jackiechan8840]

I know it's extra work, but I do enjoy video podcasts. Unless I'm walking or driving, then audio only. Cheers boys.

[@duncannapier318]

Just another reason this is my favorite binge watching channel, many vids I watch multiple times. Thanks for making and thanks for sharing 👍🇿🇦

[@taraw1979]

Loved watching this, even though I had already listened to the podcast episode. Please do more of these. I really enjoy seeing you both and the photos of the people you reference is very helpful. 👍

[@Billzor991]

Love the format and I love the episode! I can't wait for more of this series!

[@beaky29]

This is great to see you guys in action. However, having already listened to this episode I am doubling my time allocation. Interesting product placement going on in the background Dominic!

[@throwback19841]

Thank god for that, heard one of them was called Dominic then at the end I had the terrible thought that I'd been listening to Dominic Cummings for 52 minutes (and finding him engaging and enjoyable) and had to go look them up. Dominic Sandbrook, thank fuck.

[@TerriKash-NEO]

What a great way to learn about history. Been listening for a couple of weeks, and I really enjoy how you deliver the information. Really brings it all alive. Where were you two when I was in school? 😊

[@patscherlbraun1003]

You guys are so spot on with your summaries and analyses of this incredible period in history. You are also fantastic interesting story tellers!

[@hello55125]

Not sure what Uncle Monty would have made of that comparison!! Great episode. I have only recently disovered this channel and I'm loving it.

[@Lanxe]

Was gifted a handful of Dominic’s Adventures in Time books for Christmas! Very happy and looking forward to reading them with my son. Love the video format!

[@_Pauper_]

This is a great way for me to share your excellent work. Thank you !

[@Pinakij]

This is really great, who doesn’t love Rohm the love bandit, I’m a big fan of the show. I love watching it on video.

[@yuriy8522]

Love this channel, I always listen to it when falling asleep for the first 40min. I really missed it. It’s fun learning about history 😊

[@dalebrown8771]

Like a lot of people I've already listened to this but it's fantastic that you're now visually recording the pods. Would be great if this was a regular thing now!

[@Jameszet1609]

Brilliant show and format folks, I love when Dominic laughs and cracks up too 😂

[@leo1961berlin]

It's impossible to mention every detail of significance in an hour-long podcast. However, one reason so many Germans felt they had been stabbed in the back by the politicians after WW1 was that when the armistice was signed no foreign troops occupied German soil. There was still the appalling stalemate along the Western front. Equally as bad as the effects of the Great Depression post-1929 with rising levels of unemployment was the horrendous increase in inflation prior to that. German finances were in a mess, largely because of the punitive reparations imposed on the country by the Allies. The upshot was that the middle-classes lost all their savings. In any country, the middle-class is a bulwark of stability. When that falls away, you create a revolutionary potential.

[@andrewjohnston9115]

How much reparations did Germany actually pay?

[@leo1961berlin]

@ In today‘s money, billions. I don‘t have the exact figures in my head but I‘m sure Wikipedia could help you out there. The need to pay reparations also drove up the inflation rate in the mid-1920s which contributed to the disaffection of the middle classes - the bulwark of every society, even today - who then turned increasingly to extremists on the Left and Right. There are lessons for us today in all of this. Reform would not have such an easy time if the UK economic situation were rosier than it is.

[@paulcochrane1028]

One reason why the Allies in WW2 wanted to bring the war to Germany in 45…

[@blogbalkanstories4805]

A slight annotation to the translation used for Hitler's Reichstag speech: "I was the supreme judge..." does not quite nail it. He called himself "des deutschen Volkes oberster Gerichtsherr". Gerichtsherr has and even back then had a far more authoritarian connotation than Richter, i.e. judge. It's a throwback to feudal times when the feudal lord had ultimate jurisdiction over his subjects. The term speaks of power rather than justice, and in this context does away with even a pretense of a rule of law. So, translating it as "judge" is a bit off. I presume it is the standard English translation of the speech. Nevertheless, a suggestion for future projects: Perhaps there is an English term from feudal times that comes with similar connotations and that could be used. Otherwise: Very educative and entertaining episode. Thanks a lot.

[@natanzel4]

Thank you for this very insightful clarification. Just shows how crucial is a solid linguistic and historical foundation of the material to be translated.

[@JM-iu7qx]

I wonder if "overlord" would capture the same meaning.

[@gwcstudio]

So you're saying it was a Judge Dredd-like "I AM THE LAW"

[@blogbalkanstories4805]

@@gwcstudio Yes, very much so.

[@r.w.bottorff7735]

Great video, I'm glad that I was recommended your channel. Thank you!

[@gwcstudio]

"That was slightly Inspector Clouseau-ish..." Now picture Sellers' "do you have a room?" joke except its "do you have a Röhm?"

[@nicknewman7848]

When I was at school in the 80's my teacher invited a friend of his who was a journalist in the 1930's to speak to us. He had interviewed Hitler in the mid 30's and had been given a signed copy of Mein Kampf. He told the story of how he lost it on the way back to the airport. I can't remember the persons name, so if anyone has any knowledge of English Journalists who interviewed Hitler in the 30's it would be nice to be reminded of his name. I can't imagine there would have been that many.

[@Johnconno]

Mr Jones.😢

[@kevinmcinerney1959]

The only one I can think of was G Ward Price of the Daily Mail. One reason I believe he interviewed Hitler is because he wrote a book called "I Know These Dictators". I have a copy somewhere. But G Ward Price, like the Daily Mail, were enthusiasts for fascism. After the little 1939/45 upset I know the Daily Mail tended not to draw attention to its previous erm... lack of judgement. I think Ward Price possibly would have felt the same way, and turned down invitations to talk at schools.

[@nicknewman7848]

@@kevinmcinerney1959 Yeah.. Ward Price died in 1961 so was unavailable in 1989/90 around the time of the visit to my history class. I'm estimating the gentleman was in his late 70's then which would place him in his mid 20's around the time the interview took place. I'm assuming it likely took place between 1934 and 1938. I can't find anything on google because I have no idea who the guy worked for or if it was even a mainstream newspaper. It could be mentioned briefly somewhere in the ocean of literature written on the subject or could be potentially found by people who have access to archive material with official appointment diaries etc.

[@nicknewman7848]

@@kevinmcinerney1959 From wikipedia - The 1930s saw Price carry out several interviews with Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. The British historian Daniel Stone called Ward Price's reporting from Berlin and Rome "a mixture of snobbery, name dropping and obsequious pro-fascism of a most genteel 'English' type".[20] In his articles, Ward Price consistently sought to belittle those who criticised the fascist regimes for human rights abuses, downplaying such reports and attacking the motives of the critics as self-interested and biased.[21] In several of his articles, he argued that Jews and Ethiopians who criticised the Third Reich and the Third Italian Civilisation were only doing so to "play the victim" by garnering sympathy that they did not deserve.[21] Stone described Ward Price as a crypto-fascist who professed to be an objective journalist who was taking a "just the facts" approach in his reporting, but in fact clearly admired and liked fascist regimes.[22] Ward Price was very close to Lord Rothermere, the proprietor of the Daily Mail. The journalist Wickham Steed called Ward Price "the lackey of Mussolini, Hitler and Rothermere"

[@nicknewman7848]

@@kevinmcinerney1959 I'm now beginning to wonder if the story perhaps got embellished over the years and maybe the man i met was a secretary or assistant of some kind that managed to get a signed book and a handshake rather than a published interview. It's fair to say that if that had happened to me then 50 years later it probably would have morphed over time into "When i went to interview Hitler and advised him that if he happened to go to war in the future he really shouldn't bite off more than he can chew and make sure to be pragmatic when it came to logistics.."

[@ricardom1974]

I'd already listened to this, but had to ride both horses and watch it too

[@thelucky1]

Jeez i was getting worried, good to have you back, also can you have Bart van Loo back on please, loved the burgundian episode!

[@Rayshard.Oblique777]

Very interesting, great vid. However, Hitler wasn't actually a vegetarian as you said. He was, apparently, advised by his doctor to cut down on the sausage intake to manage his chronic flatulence, but still occasionally ate meat. As for the drinking, he gave up after getting hideously drunk on Schnapps as a youth and waking up in a field. By the way, did you know that Jagermeister once had the nickname 'Goering's schnapps' because of his fondness for the drink? Though for some reason the company does not use this nickname in its advertising today....

[@steph7139]

“…for some reason” 😅 perhaps because they don’t want to brand themselves with the nazis??

[@KailamiMwiinga]

Goering Schnapps doesnt have a nice ring to it 😂😂

[@rtimofei1]

Great to see you both!

[@theirishantiquarian2363]

Video podcasts are great!!

[@lisaschellhorn2955]

Happy I found you guys. Good job.

[@humblescribe8522]

"This paints the Nazis in a very bad light..." 😂

[@kevinmcinerney1959]

I enjoyed the banter.

[@maccumhaill5534]

Welcome back lads!

[@mh-piano-lessons]

Very interesting and compelling format and substance.

[@MythicMindScape21]

Great Channel. I love your material.

[@thomaslienert4225]

Bad Godesberg is not in Westfalia, but Rhineland (it's next to Bonn).

[@11th_Moon]

Your are the stanning storytellers with the great skills to work with the sources and to analyse our past. I'm your fan. Gid save the real bright human historians. No AI :)

[@eagle41428]

Here in the USA, in January 2025, we are experiencing much of the same thing. The comparisons are frighteningly on point and those in charge intend it to be so.

[@Vicshade]

This was great. Very enjoyable presentation.

[@simonprodhan5050]

superb stuff, i've read quite a few of dominic's books and i've enjoyed them immensely, i'm particularly interested in the political history of the third reich and the SA and this podcast was very interesting

[@TeresaE116]

Please keep doing these on Video! I love the Podcast and I’m a paid subscriber! This is just one more fantastic piece to “The Rest Is History” World!!🥰

[@amycunnington7461]

Watching so many of the your video podcast, they’re great!! I’ve been trying to work out the entire time if you’re both in the same room or not 🤣

[@richardcutt727]

Your series on Custer's last stand was excellent. A particular interest of mine ever since Errol Flynn and They died with their boots on.

[@michaelcoyne3700]

I have stayed in Bad Weissee twice, never at all realised the history of the place I was there for work.

[@theultimatechannel846]

It is absolutely insane how they could openly kill their political opposition and then two years later be allowed to host the Olympic games like nothing happened.

[@lloydgush]

Opposition? They killed nazis, lol! The opposition was a bit before.

[@d.c.8828]

Politics! Amirite!?!?!? 🥁

[@Castlelong333]

Because they were freemasons,

[@anthonyweston630]

Trump will probably be doing that in a few months and yet they’ve got the fifa World Cup/olympics in two years

[@bardame]

The standard setting of humanity is cowardice.

[@gizabitadat1499]

This is what the world needs to remember how it really goes down , when we loose all our marbles and allow new laws and powers rule our lives . great work lads !

[@davidbanks4168]

Tom Hollands acting talents are considerable. That Hitler impression!

[@rumdukes]

I think Dominic's study wins hands down

[@guymorgan4029]

You guys are great keep it up

[@gwcstudio]

Hindenberg's mustache was worth 2 brigades of cavalry

[@enigmaticzigfried7557]

Thank you.

[@psmcguin]

Got my signed copy of the new rest is history book. 😊

[@JustWatchingVideo56]

Reflects so much of today.

[@gregschinn6943]

Was the expression “the night of the long knives” first applied to this event or was this moniker applied to earlier events in history?

[@jeroenlouwerse7454]

Was already an existing term

[@alanmcmeechan52]

Just realised something interesting with this. I listened to the very first few TRIH episodes when they first came out , and decided they weren't for me, even though I loved Tom Hollands book. I couldn't stand the way they talked over each other. Now watching this, I see they now separate their voice in the podcast, but not in this video. I spent 5 minutes going over the bit at 28:12 when Dominic mentions Tom is a vegetarian, and Tom talks over him, so the next bit makes no sense about why inviting Tom to a wedding would be a bad idea. But if you listen to the podcast, they've split that up so you hear both clearly.

[@elrond3737]

"nibbling on spinach"😂😂😂😂😂

[@gary8117]

absolutely hilarious 😂

[@coling3957]

Rohm is a very interesting character.. after ww1 he remsined an officer in the army. He was an equipment officer in Bavaria and became known aa "the machine gun king" , controlling army supplies , which he put into secret caches for use by nationalist groups , not just nazis. His wartime service included the Stormtroops , elite fighting men. No surprise the name would be reprised for the SA. most of the SA looked to him as their leader and an alternative to Hitler in 1933.

[@russellboyd9858]

Just watched the whole custer and crazy horse.learned so much.now onto one of my favorite subjects.watching the last series i think i thought of the similarities of the usa and the natzis as far as ethnic cleansing .once i thought about it about 20 mins later u guys mention the same thing.

[@jaycapino5777]

❤love this story of that particular history!!!😊

[@Cb489]

Love this show, as well as all the others

[@zeroceiling]

“Hitler visits Essen..which, at the time is having a wold board game championship..which is nice.”…I literally laughed out loud!…

[@robertalpy]

I was also reminded of the second triumverate where Octavian, Antonius and Lepidus were horse trading over who would die and who wouldn't. Where Antonius agrees to let his brother in law or perhaps his actual brother is forget, be proscribed if Octavian will agree to let Cicero be prescribed. No doubt Goering had the same thought in his office and that was the source of his ironic giddiness. A man such as him would love comparing himself to Caesar Augustus.

[@parkercoelho9036]

I wish you guys would number the episodes in the series lol

[@aj9918]

About translation, some German sprecher do an input. But the fuhrer bore the insignia in the fhäenlein, and in Swedish the Förare bore the insignia. So fuhrer is more directly translated to English as Driver

[@GorgeDawes]

How awful. You go for a nice, peaceful Nazi spa break and something like this happens. 1 star on Yelp.

[@IngoWolf-q8z]

Graffiti in Berlin in the early 30's: Ernst Röhm lässt jetzt die Arbeit ruh'n und freut sich auf den afternoon.

[@nickpage7333]

Just wondering Mr Sandbrook, do you own any books written by anyone else, or are you filming this in a branch of Waterstones?

[@rontimus]

I'm still waiting for a much more comprehensive episode on Nietzsche.....

[@timmills8521]

Good stuff guys, slightly childish Thatcher / Hitler comparison aside !

[@dominicmcauley9318]

Are these videos separate from the audio podcasts??

[@nncast00]

7:35 smoothest reference I've heard

[@Walrus931]

finally new upload

[@pepleatherlab3872]

It's always the thing about conjured chaos. The people who initiate it (SA), often become the rungs on which tyrants climb...to their own demise. Hubris and the smell of sulfur.

[@Truffle_Pup]

"He'd (Hitler) be the last person I'd invite to my wedding Tom" - Sandbrook, D. 2024.

[@KKTR3]

I miss your tv programs

[@JonniePolyester]

That was great…even though I studied the event some 30 years I didn’t realise Hitler was actually present. I’ve been comparing the characters in the current fascist regime in Russia with their forebears in Nazi Germany Rohm was definitely a Prigozhin…similar sort of role, character & demise!

[@harrietlyall1991]

The difference between a North German accent, and a South German, Swiss German or Austrian one, is that the latter sound nasal and metallic. Hitler didn’t like to portray himself as a hick from Linz, but was at pains to reinvent himself as a Münchner. The favoured style among the elite German military was the “Potsdamer Ton”, an authoritative, aristocratic, very correct Prussian accent.

[@robinbennett3531]

have you thought about putting the extra books up on top? it must be a nightmare finding anything...

[@richardcutt727]

A brilliant combination of stand up comedy and history...😂

[@lublondon]

Absolutely enjoyable and knowledgeable Teaching German and German history, I feel entitled to judge 🤗😉 As a gay man , I have all sorts of associations, when listening to this (or teaching die Nacht der langen Messer)

[@fastpublish]

Tom sounds like Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau asking for accommodation in The Pink Panther - A Rohm?

[@eminturksezer9423]

This was very entertaining. Sadly you both for fell the NS fairy tales. In Germany this event is know as Röhm Putsch, which is never was. It was the pragmatic approach of Hitler to remove conservative allies and obviously a clean-up between the paladins in which Himmler, Göring and Goebbels came out on top. By the way the coach company was Finsterlin. The family was still around when I went to school. The Hotel Hanselbauer became the Hotel Lederer am See and was demolished just a few a ago. I remember the old night club. At that time the young people moved to Rottach-Egern to go out and Bad Wiessee was left to the elderly. The love nest of Röhm's inner circle the RIngsee Insel was our hangout in school summers, playing pen and paper all day long.

[@garad123456]

I imagined you fellers a lot younger based on your youthly voices. But it makes sense that one does not obtain such extensive historical knowledge without studying for decades

[@RaffieFaffie]

Funny you say that, in an interview Dom said that someone thought he and tom were younger than imagined.

[@JeffPreen-br3oi]

Len Deighton WINTER - compelling reading

[@calc1657]

W/re to Hitler at weddings, he was actually a keen goer to weddings, funerals, and celebrations.

[@helmutsecke3529]

Anything on Viktor Lutze then?

[@Hiram1000]

"Working himself into a fury.." Shouldn't that be: "working himself into a Fhurer..".? Lol

[@tomsmith3269]

best history podcast

[@David_Lloyd-Jones]

At 50:20: Hitler "very Star Wars..." Of course, Dummy: the Star Wars scene is modelled explicitly on the Hitler Nuremberg scene so expertly choreographed by the brilliant Leni Riefenstahl.