RePete's History

In episode 3, I take a look at the Reichstag fire from the perspective of modern firefighting while making use of the latest historical research and newly accessible primary sources. I made the mistake of confusing Hett's name as "Christopher". I don't know why I did this, but his name is Benjamin Hett. Works consulted: Brenden, Piers. The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s. New York: Random House, 2002. Calvocoressi, Peter. Total War. London: The Penguin Press, 1972. Delmer, Sefton. Trail Sinister. London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1961. Fest, Joachim C. Hitler. New York: Mariner Books, 1974. Gisevius, Hans. To the Bitter End. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1947. Goodson, Carl. Murnane, Lynne. Essentials of Firefighting 5th ed. OSU: Fire Protection Publications, 2008. Hett, Benjamin Carter. Burning the Reichstag. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Kerber, Stephen. Analysis of Changing Residential Fire Dynamics and Its Implications on Firefighter Operational Timeframes. Underwriter Labratories, 2008. Kershaw, Ian. Hitler, Hubris. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. Ludwig Lore. “A Nazi Confesses”. The New International . Volume II, Number 1(January 1935) . Accessed November 7, 2015. https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/ni/vol02/no01/lore.htm Mage, John. Tigar, Michael E.“The Reichstag Fire Trial, 1933-2008”. Monthly Review. Accessed November 5, 2015. http://monthlyreview.org/2009/03/01/the-reichstag-fire-trial-1933-2008-the- production-of-law-and-history/ "Nuremberg Trial Proceedings". March 18, 1946. Volume 9. Yale Law School:The Avalon Project, October 2015.http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/03-18-46.asp Schwabe, Lars. Wolf, Oliver T. Oitzl, Melly S. “Memory formation under stress: Quantity and Quality”. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Vol 34, Issue 4 (March 2010). Accessed November 4, 2015. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976340900181X Shirer, William (1959). The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. New York: Touchstone, 1959.

Quick overview of the life of Prince Khaemwaset, a son of Ramsess II who many attribute as being the world's first archaeologist. Youtube video with relevant pictures: https://youtu.be/58hB44DqDP8 Twitter: https://twitter.com/RePetes_History Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-484158 RSS: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:203450668/sounds.rss Works consulted: Aldred, Cyril. The Egyptians. New York: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2000. Edwards, I.E.S. The Pyramids of Egypt. England: Clays Ltd, 1993. Rice, Michael. Who’s Who of Ancient Egypt. New York: Routledge, 2002. Snape, Steven. Khaemwese and the Present Past. Bolton: Rutherford Press, 2009. Tyldesley, Joyce. Ramesses: Egypt's Greatest Pharaoh. New York: Penguin Books, 2001. Verner, Miroslav. The Pyramids. New York: Grove Press, 2001.

In this first episode I discuss some of the evidence contributing to the opinion of Egyptologists believing the pyramids were intended and used as tombs. On Twitter: https://twitter.com/RePetes_History To follow the episode with relevant photos, see: https://youtu.be/blfuZleCwyA