Patrick Geoghegan
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1,107 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Aug
Patrick Geoghegan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then as time went on in the 1930s, he became increasingly uneasy.
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And he never joins the party, but he does support the movement, it seems, financially.
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How much did he know about the Holocaust?
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Because he certainly seems to have been uneasy about some of the persecution of Jewish people as the 1930s went on.
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But there are always these questions about how much people were aware, how much they thought about what was going on or really how much they ignored it.
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And Nick, that contradiction is really at the heart of how we understand German reaction and responses to the Holocaust.
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And it does seem to be an open secret with people aware to varying degrees about what was being planned and what was happening.
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It also shows the power of propaganda because when you have a state official regime dehumanizing a people and spreading and injecting such poison into it that we see it around the world today.
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People's minds get twisted and warped and terrible atrocities happen as a result.
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Well, tonight we are talking about the rise of the Nazi regime and how it took hold in Germany.
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When we come back, we'll be finding out about that new search engine that Nick has mentioned.
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It's an engine that allows users to search Nazi party records to find out whether their ancestors were card carrying members.
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And we're going to find out more about that.
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and indeed what was happening in Weimar right after this break.
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Welcome back.
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We're talking about the rise of the Nazis and how they took hold in Germany.
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My brilliant panel of experts, Professor Nick Stargardt, is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Oxford and is a fellow at Model in College there.
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He's one of the world's leading experts on Nazi Germany, and his books include Witnesses of War and The German War, A Nation Under Arms.
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Also delighted to be rejoined by Katja Hoyer,
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who's an historian journalist, visiting research fellow at King's College London and fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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