#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
#19 Why did wealthy older women love Hitler?
The philosopher Hannah Arendt spoke of the “growing admiration of the good and wealthy classes for the underworld” in the 19th century. She noted that “this wealthy class gradually yielded to every mo...
14 Okt 202529min
#18 Seeing Hitler: Testimonies of Friends and Comrades
Contrary to the claim that he was a man of absolute self-confidence, we know of numerous documented cases in which he displayed the exact opposite behavior. At such times he acted surprisingly helples...
6 Okt 202548min
#17 Hitler: What Did People Think of Hitler?
Thus says Hans Frank, Hitler’s personal lawyer, who was a witness from the very beginning and accompanied Hitler. In his analysis of Hitler and the regime in the work Im Angesicht des Galgens (In the ...
24 Sep 202543min
#15 How Hitler Saw Himself?
However, in 1924 a crucial turning point came. After the failed Beer Hall Putsch and the trial in Munich, Hitler was imprisoned in the Landsberg fortress. There, behind the prison walls, his self-perc...
5 Sep 202547min
