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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Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan · The Rise & Fall of the Nazi Regime · 10 Jun 2026 podcast

And her wonderful new book, Weimar, Life on the Edge of Catastrophe, examines the people, politics and culture of the city that gave its name to Germany's first democracy and later became a centre of Nazi power. voice-verified

And Katya, let's maybe talk about some of the people in Weimar during this period, because what's really interesting is the way you see an incredible cast of characters where there's fascists alongside socialists, there's artists, there's workers, there's politicians and citizens. voice-verified

And in the way that Weimar almost acts as a laboratory or an incubator for the Nazi regime. voice-verified

that it's a place where you have a gathering of people with wildly different backgrounds and belief systems. voice-verified

And Katya, I can't understand how the Nazis in Weimar went from being seen as maybe vandals in 1926, or certainly kind of troublemakers, to performing so well in 1929. voice-verified

Because when there is that major congress in July in 1926, there are problems there with it. voice-verified

It's not a huge gathering. voice-verified

It's a big, but it's not massive. voice-verified

And I wonder... voice-verified

how quickly they were able to take hold. voice-verified

And by 1929, in those elections, the Nazis do better in Weimar than they do in neighbouring areas. voice-verified

And it allows them to get a foothold into government. voice-verified

Nick, can we talk about this new search engine? voice-verified

Because I think it offers an invaluable way of checking if family members or people were members of the Nazi party. voice-verified

But I'd say there's probably a terrifying dimension as well because it could completely upend a family history where people might have been told one particular version of their family story and now they can discover something quite different. voice-verified

I always loved the Philip Kerr, Bernie Gunther novels. voice-verified

And the very first one is called March Violets, the name given to those opportunists who joined the Nazi party after they took power in 1933. voice-verified

And I wonder, is there something that you can see in when people join? voice-verified

I know there's complex and complicated reasons and it's hard to gauge people's motivations and whether it's genuine or whether it's opportunistic or whether it's for other reasons. voice-verified

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