#27 Hitler’s Favorite Pilot: Hanna Reitsch
During the Second World War, Hanna participated in testing numerous revolutionary German weapons. She helped solve the stability problems of the V-1 rocket (“Vergeltungswaffe,” meaning “retaliation we...
17 Feb 51min
#25 Fatal Admiration: Unity Mitford’s Obsession with Hitler
The Mitford family had existed since the Middle Ages, long without any particular significance. It was only in the 1930s that the Mitford brothers and sisters entered the headlines, becoming notorious...
18 Des 202529min
#24 – Hitler’s Fatal Relationship: Eva Braun
Hitler and Eva Braun met in 1929, when she was only 17 years old and Hitler already 40. He immediately noticed her. Hitler especially sought the company of very young women; he invited them to dinners...
27 Nov 202542min
#23 Ilse Hess: “The Eternal Nazi Widow”
Ilse Pröhl came from a national-conservative family. She was one of the three daughters of Friedrich Pröhl, a wealthy Hanoverian physician, and his wife Elsa, née Meineke. Her father was killed during...
14 Nov 202538min
#22 Magda Goebbels, the “First Lady” of the Third Reich
Magda Goebbels, wife of Joseph Goebbels, mother of six children, one of Hitler’s closest confidantes — and the woman who ultimately chose death together with her children in the Führerbunker. “She was...
6 Nov 202551min
#21 Helene Bechstein: “I Raised the Führer!”
Helene Bechstein was not merely the wife of a rich industrialist in the first half of the 20th century, but one of the early and highly influential supporters of the Nazi movement, who, through her pe...
29 Okt 202531min
#20 Hermine Hoffmann - Hitler’s first “foster mother” and sponsor
During the First World War, many women volunteered to provide clothing, hand-knitted socks, food, and cigarettes for soldiers at the front. Hoffmann volunteered and was assigned to a soldier named Ado...
22 Okt 202515min
