Part Two: Alfred Hugenberg: The Elon Musk of Weimar Germany
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Who was Alfred Hugenberg and what role did he play in World War I?
Oh, boy, howdy. We're back, having a good time, and everything's good. We're podcasting about Alfred Hugenberg, a great asshole who, at this point in time, has helped make World War I a reality, which, you know, I hope to one day make World War I a reality, so...
You are. You're keeping its memory alive right now.
Every day. Every day. As soon as this call finishes, Amanda Montel, our great guest and the author of Cultish, as soon as we finish this recording, I'm going to get back on the phone with Emmanuel Macron over in France and try to sell him some new machine guns, you know? Then I'm going to tell the Germans, do you know what Macron's doing? Holy shit.
What that moment, that moment when you become your podcast.
That's right.
Where do you end? And it begins subject verb agreement. I don't know.
What's the one thing everyone agreed on in 1913 and today? Too many young people in Europe. You know, we're going to knock that problem out right away. Just make a new Western front. Exactly. Exactly. You know, it's good for the economy. It's terrible. It destroys the whole thing.
Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley Season 1. I just knew him as a kid. Long, silent voices from his past came forward.
And he was just staring at me.
And they had secrets of their own to share.
Gilbert came. I'm the son of Jeremy Lynn Scott.
I was no longer just telling the story. I was part of it.
Every time I hear about my dad, it's, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.
I was becoming the bridge between a killer and the son he'd never known.
If the cops and everything would have done their job properly, my dad would have been in jail. I would have never existed.
I never expected to find myself in this place. Now, I need to tell you how I got here.
At the end of the day, I'm literally a son of a killer.
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I'm Soledad O'Brien, and on my podcast, Murder on the Towpath, I'm taking you back to the 1960s. Mary Pinchot Meyer was a painter who lived in Georgetown in Washington, D.C. Every day, she took a daily walk along the towpath near the E&O Canal.
So when she was killed in a wealthy neighborhood... She had been shot twice in the head and in the back behind the heart.
The police arrived in a heartbeat. Within 40 minutes, a man named Raymond Crump Jr. was arrested. He was found nearby, soaking wet, and he was black. Only one woman dared defend him, civil rights lawyer W. Roundtree. Join me as we unravel this story with a crazy twist. Because what most people didn't know is that Mary was connected to a very powerful man.
I pledge you that we shall neither commit nor provoke aggression.
John F. Kennedy. Listen to Murder on the Towpath with Soledad O'Brien on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hey, my name's Jay Shetty and I'm the host of On Purpose. I just had a great conversation with Michelle Obama.
To whom much is given, much is expected. The guilt comes from, am I doing enough? Me, Michelle Obama, to say that to a therapist.
So let's unpack that. Former First Lady Michelle Obama. And someone who knows her best, her big brother Craig. We'll be hosting a podcast called IMO.
What have been your personal journeys with therapy?
We need to be coached throughout our lives. My mom wanted us to be independent children. And she would always tell me, stop worrying about your sister.
Having been the first lady of the entire country and representing the country and the world, I couldn't afford to have that kind of disdain.
What would you say has been the most hardest recent test of fear? Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who was Alfred Hugenberg and what role did he play in World War I?
0:04–6:03
2
How did Alfred Hugenberg's investments influence German colonial ambitions in Africa?
6:03–10:24
3
What was the nature of the Herero genocide and Germany's colonial brutality?
10:24–22:04
4
How did Alfred Hugenberg use media ownership to influence public opinion during WWI?
22:04–30:22
5
What was the economic motivation behind Hugenberg’s propaganda efforts?
30:22–43:40
6
How did Hugenberg’s media empire contribute to right-wing nationalism and the rise of the Nazi party?
43:40–46:32
7
Who were key political allies of Hugenberg like Paul von Hindenburg and General Ludendorff?
46:32–52:44
8
What was the 'stab-in-the-back' myth and how did Hugenberg propagate it after WWI?
52:44–1:35:51