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The Wannsee Conference was a meeting that took place on January 20, 1942, in a suburb of Berlin called Wannsee. The conference was organized by high-ranking officials of Nazi Germany, and its main purpose was to coordinate the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question." The "Final Solution" was the Nazi plan to systematically exterminate the Jewish people in Europe during the Holocaust.During the conference, top Nazi officials, led by SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, discussed and formalized plans for the mass genocide of Jews. The decision to implement the "Final Solution" had already been made earlier, but the conference aimed to coordinate various administrative and logistical aspects of the genocide, such as the organization of transportation, the role of different government agencies, and the cooperation of various occupied territories in carrying out the extermination.The Wannsee Conference marked a pivotal moment in the Holocaust, as it demonstrated the systematic and bureaucratic nature of the genocide. The decisions made during the conference laid the groundwork for the horrific events that unfolded during World War II, resulting in the death of millions of innocent people.In this episode, we take a look at the participants, what they talked about and how it would go on to shape the plan that would inevitably become one of the worst holocausts in human history.If we forget our history, we are bound to repeat it and with the vitriol being launched from many these days, it's a good time to remember just exactly what happened and how systemic and vile it truly was. (commercial at 8:20)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

The Wannsee Conference was a meeting that took place on January 20, 1942, in a suburb of Berlin called Wannsee. The conference was organized by high-ranking officials of Nazi Germany, and its main purpose was to coordinate the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question." The "Final Solution" was the Nazi plan to systematically exterminate the Jewish people in Europe during the Holocaust.During the conference, top Nazi officials, led by SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, discussed and formalized plans for the mass genocide of Jews. The decision to implement the "Final Solution" had already been made earlier, but the conference aimed to coordinate various administrative and logistical aspects of the genocide, such as the organization of transportation, the role of different government agencies, and the cooperation of various occupied territories in carrying out the extermination.The Wannsee Conference marked a pivotal moment in the Holocaust, as it demonstrated the systematic and bureaucratic nature of the genocide. The decisions made during the conference laid the groundwork for the horrific events that unfolded during World War II, resulting in the death of millions of innocent people.In this episode, we take a look at the participants, what they talked about and how it would go on to shape the plan that would inevitably become one of the worst holocausts in human history.If we forget our history, we are bound to repeat it and with the vitriol being launched from many these days, it's a good time to remember just exactly what happened and how systemic and vile it truly was. (commercial at 8:20)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

Erst der Bericht über ein Treffen von Rechtsextremen, die in einer Villa am Wannsee über Pläne sprachen, wie man Millionen Menschen aus dem Land schaffen könnte, dann die Gegenreaktion: Demos von Cottbus bis Kiel, Hunderttausende, die für die Demokratie und gegen Hass auf die Straße gingen. Stehen wir gerade an einem Wendepunkt der Demokratie? Welchen Einfluss haben die Demos auf die AfD selbst und auf viele, die vielleicht nicht rechtsextrem sind, aber die AfD trotzdem wählen würden? Was ist von Plänen zu halten, der AfD das Wasser dadurch abzugraben, indem man sie von der Finanzierung abschneidet? Und was passiert, wenn die AfD Ende des Jahres in Brandenburg, Sachsen oder Thüringen stärkste Kraft wird? Darüber sprechen Tina Hildebrandt und Heinrich Wefing diese Woche in "Das Politikteil" mit Anne Hähnig, Leiterin der Redaktion ZEIT im Osten. Anne Hähnig, die selbst in Leipzig lebt, beschreibt, wie die AfD agiert und warum sie nicht für ausgeschlossen hält, dass die AfD zum Beispiel in Sachen "aus Versehen" eine absolute Mehrheit bekommen könnte. Sie sagt: Friedrich Merz schwächt die Ampel, aber seine eigene Schwäche stärkt auch die AfD. Und sie verlangt: Bevor man die AfD politisch stellen kann, muss man erst mal verstehen, warum viele Menschen sie wählen. In "Das Politikteil" sprechen wir jede Woche mit einem Gast eine Stunde lang über ein politisches Thema, im Wechsel moderieren Peter Dausend und Ileana Grabitz und Tina Hildebrandt und Heinrich Wefing.

On the 20th January 1942 fifteen men met at the Wannsee Villa to discuss what they described as the final solution to the Jewish question. The Holocaust had been underway for many months but what those delegates agreed put in motion the industrial nature of the killings.Roger Moorhouse, historian of Nazi Germany, joins Ollie to discuss the film Conspiracy which starts Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth. How accurate is it historically? What's the background to the bureaucrats and SS men attending, and what about Wannsee itself?Conspiracy LinksConspiracy (2001)Berlin at War, by Roger MoorhouseThe Forgers, by Roger MoorhouseFirst to Fight, by Roger MoorhouseThe Villa, The Lake, The Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution, by Mark RosemanOrdinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, by Christopher BrowningThe Conference (2022)The Wannsee Conference (1984)Roger on X/TwitterOllie on X/TwitterJustWatch (to find movies on which platform)Email us at history@aspectsofhistory.com

Vom Rücken zur Wand bis zur Drehung der Füße um 45° verringert sich zwar der Winkel des Blicks. Es erweitert sich dabei aber auch die Perspektive. Studiogespräch.

Winter in Berlin – das war in schneereicheren Zeiten durchaus ein Ereignis. Nachdem wir in den vergangenen Jahren mehrfach schon mit dem Podcast in den verschneiten Grunewald oder zum zugefrorenen Wannsee gereist sind, führt uns der Vorwärts vom 3. Januar 1924 heute in die vom Stadtzentrum aus entgegengesetzte Himmelsrichtung, nach Weißensee. Dort, erfahren wir, ging es vielleicht etwas weniger mondän zu als im reichen Westen, aber durchaus nicht weniger lustig. Dass die Höhenunterschiede in den märkischen Breiten eher zu vernachlässigen sind, hat der berlinischen Rodelbegeisterung damals offenbar keinen Abbruch getan. In Vertretung der nach wie vor aus familiären Gründen verhinderten Paula Rosa Leu stürzt sich Frank Riede für uns auf dem Schlitten in die Tiefe.

Summary “Getting Unstuck” is somewhat of a rare animal in the world of podcasting. It's offered timely content focused on change, education, and curiosity for over 5 years and sits in the top 3% of all podcasts. 44% of all podcasts have less than 3 episodes, according to two tracking sources. Most podcasts don't make it past 10 episodes. Conversely, we just passed the 300-episode milestone, which is somewhat of a magic marker for podcasts. As we approach the end of the year, I wanted to take a moment to thank my listeners and recap 2023 in three parts: 1. the top episodes in terms of downloads, 2. the episode that meant the most to me, and 3 my most popular episode over the life of the podcast. The episodes in 2023 that garnered the most listener attention What follows are the top downloaded episodes for 2023. Not surprisingly, each of the five episodes focused on the major themes I emphasize in the podcast: overcoming personal resistance, recognizing and taking advantage of serendipity, defining a new purpose of education, experiencing the meditative aspect of fly fishing and the natural world, and the power of curiosity. Here, then, is a short description of these five episodes: 250 - How a Life-Altering Event Can Still Mean A Rich Life, Fulfilling Life Rick Locke is an excellent example of someone who literally had to look at life from a different angle. While he was losing his central vision due to macular degeneration, he could still see out of the corner of his eye. And that, as it turns out, was the lens through which he could see – and share – a whole new world of wonder. 249 - How to Become All-in as a Solopreneur April Vokey couldn't help but look at life from a different angle. From a very early age, April loved fishing and hunting. She decided to shun more traditional work and instead start a business where she would guide, provide instructional courses, write, be a keynote speaker, and host a podcast on all things related to her fishing interests, all while becoming a wife and mother. Her decision also came with the expected challenges — and one challenge that men doing the same work never face. 239 - What is the Purpose of School? In this episode, educator, author, and futurist Rhonda Broussard and I touch on various reasons for our K-12 system of schooling. Is it to prepare students for a career, acquire knowledge and skills, or develop creative thinking and problem-solving abilities? And what about student agency? How much voice and choice should we allow students to determine what and how they want to learn? 246 - Dr. Christian Busch on Connecting Life's Dots Going Forward Steve Jobs famously said, “You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.” Today's guest, Christian Busch, Ph.D., would respectfully disagree. He writes, “Serendipity is not just about a coincidence that happens to us, but it is actually through the process of spotting and connecting the dots that we start to see bridges where others see gaps.” 253 - How Can You Reframe Your Inner Story to Create a Healthier Reality? Valerie Gordon is a 10-time Emmy-winning television producer with over 20 years of developing and overseeing award-winning content. She knows what makes a story meaningful and memorable and the incredible power of stories to engage, educate, and entertain. And she's detailed how we can tell a healthier personal story – and overcome our inner narrator – in her highly readable book, FIRE YOUR NARRATOR: A Storyteller's Guide to Getting Out of Your Head and Into Your Life. The 2023 episode that meant the most to me This episode grew from my experience traveling to Berlin and Amsterdam this past fall to immerse myself in local aspects of the Holocaust. Here, I traveled to Wannsee, Germany, a suburb of Berlin, where on January 20, 1942, 15 high-ranking Nazis gathered in a villa to resolve various aspects of the “final solution of the Jewish problem.” As a Jew, standing in the room where the Nazis met was a chilling experience in its own right, but it was made more so because Adolf Eichmann had been one of the Nazis attending. 268 - Getting the Best Revenge Standing Inside the Room My most popular episode over the 5-year life of the podcast And finally, I wanted to acknowledge that episode 201 - “Learning About Life and Leadership from a Fly Fishing Guide,” remains the runaway listener favorite over the podcast's life. Initially, I was nervous about posting an episode about fly fishing, but my conversation with guide Spencer Seim was anything but what one might expect. It wasn't about the technical aspects of fly fishing; it was about how Spencer approaches his clients every day as a leader. So, I think the focus on leadership played well, but that said, I've done a number of episodes since related to fly fishing, including #2 in this year's top 5, and they were all well received. Who knew? 201 - Learning About Life and Leadership from a Fly Fishing Guide

Shownotes and Transcript Ivor Cummins, maybe better known to many of us as The Fat Emperor, has challenged the Covid narrative from the very beginning.   He joins us today to discuss a new tyranny happening not only in Ireland but across the whole of Europe. Compelled speech.  Ireland's new "Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences" Bill has been waiting for approval in the Senate since the summer.  This biggest curtailment of free speech was set to quickly pass until scrutiny from free speech champions stalled it.  Ivor goes through the bill and the expected consequences.  Ivor Cummins BE(Chem) CEng MIEI  completed a Biochemical Engineering degree in 1990. He has since spent 30 years in corporate technical leadership positions. His career specialty has been leading large worldwide teams in complex problem-solving activity.   Since 2012 Ivor has been intensively researching the root causes of modern chronic disease. A particular focus has been on cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity. He shares his research insights at public speaking engagements around the world, revealing the key nutritional and lifestyle interventions which will deliver excellent health and personal productivity. He has recently presented at the British Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (BACPR) and also at the Irish National Institute of Preventative Cardiology (NIPC) annual conferences.  Ivor's 2018 book “Eat Rich, Live Long” (co-authored with preventative medicine expert Jeffry Gerber MD, FAAFP), details the conclusions of their shared research: https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Rich-Live-Long-Mastering/dp/1628602732/ Interview recorded 12.12.23  Connect with Ivor... X                           https://x.com/FatEmperor?s=20 WEBSITE              https://thefatemperor.com/ PODCASTS          https://thefatemperor.com/podcasts/ Connect with Hearts of Oak... 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I know recently you've done Dr Pierre Kory, who we had on, you've obviously been on TNT Radio, I saw I think recently with Darren Denslow who's been on with us quite a number of times and I think your title on that was Technical Manager, Biochemical Engineer and Technologist and obviously you've got your background in biochemical engineering and probably over the last couple of years you've been very vocal on pushing back against the COVID tyranny and then it's much wider. I think from 2012 you've been researching the root causes of modern chronic disease, focusing on cardiovascular and I'm sure that over the last three years a lot has been added to that, that you weren't expecting. But maybe you just take a moment and introduce yourself before we get on to what is happening in Ireland and the criminalization of speech. Yeah absolutely, so briefly I did biochemical engineering, I graduated in 1990, I spent five years in medical device and development of dialysis units and all that kind of stuff. So I got a lot of medical exposure there at the time, but then the next 20 years, plus I was on the high volume kind of, uh, electro fluidic devices. And it was great because it's extremely complex when you have around 10 sites around the whole world, making products, uh, billions, ultimately of complex devices, the slightest problem or the most subtle problems, it can become huge, you can lose millions of dollars overnight. So I was the master problem solver. Ultimately, I ran large teams on the most complex problems, multi factor. And I did that for 10 or 15 years, 20 years. And I was also a manager as well of teams of up to 20 engineers, directly people managing them, that was great experience. So, I just got this vast experience in complex problem solving and people management and essentially a form of politics, corporate politics, which was also very useful. And what we're seeing since COVID started, coming ultimately from Rockefeller Brothers Fund in the 50s, right through Club of Rome, Trilateral Commission, Council of Foreign Relations, UN, the EU, I'm beginning to view those as a complex problem solver as almost synonymous. So they're all so interconnected and countless NGOs and corporates and the World Economic Forum that people find it hard to believe. Well, how could this be orchestrated? Who could possibly organize it? And it's actually quite simple. It's a long game plan for a global governance structure. And it's funded by the people at the top and the most powerful political people and the US State Department has an interest. And they're all working for around half century or more since the Second World War towards a very tight, well-controlled global government. And yeah, it's not that hard to orchestrate, because all the right people are doing it. And they're doing it like we did things, corporate style. It's very structured. It's full of lovely language. It's got lovely goals that sound great. It's obviously highly sinister under the hood. But yeah, it's not that complex. But most people don't have the corporate experience to be able to decode something like this, find all the players and just see the whole picture. And that's the problem. Just like people have no knowledge of virology or epidemiology, you know, or immunology. So you can fool the people with ease. And that's the challenge we've been seeing. And that's what I jumped into in March, 2020, because I could see pretty quickly, I have five children, I could see where it was going, it wasn't hard. And I just knew that this is kind of the battle of our generation, there's no question about that. And if we lose, we'll have a China-style society in the West, and that's pretty much the outcome. Yeah, and I respect those views. I think Naomi Wolf actually mentioned that from day one, whenever it was announced shutting down Broadway, then her and her husband left New York immediately. Others has taken a little bit longer to see through. You're hoping for the best in institutions, in society, in media. I think we've realized there is no best there. But what has been then your last three and a half year because that's a world away from a background in the biochemistry, the research. What you're doing now is so different. So I mean let us know that change and what that has been like for you personally. Yes, it's certainly been interesting, but you live in interesting times. So 2012, 13 up to 2020, when COVID hit, I was deeply involved in biomedical and metabolic research, and I was going all over the world speaking. A wealthy Irish entrepreneur was funding me to travel all over the world to conferences, medical and nutritional, and to explain to people how what caused heart disease, Alzheimer's, most of the solid tumour cancers that cause the most death, and all of these modern chronic diseases go back to the devil's triad. So very simple, I named it that. It's sugar, refined grains, refined carbohydrates, and vegetable oils, seed oils. And that's what makes up most processed foods, which is around 60% of everyone's calories. So essentially, were poisoning the population for nearly a century now. So I was lecturing on all of that and on insulin resistance, which is the big thing you measure, because that's the target you have to get down low, and then you're pretty much okay. But then when COVID hit, I had been so involved in the corruption of the statin kind of industry, the cholesterol-lowering nonsense. I'd been involved in a lot of drug corruption, and also back in the 90s, I'd actually been directly involved, not personally doing things, but older engineers were doing things completely against the rules. And it was common practice, you know, in biomedical manufacture. And I'm sure that never changed. So I had all this experience in the corporate corruption. I had all the experience in my own corporate roles in the last 15 years, again, in the corporate politics and corruption. And I had all the medical and biomedical knowledge now and metabolic. So when COVID hit, I was on stage in Denver, big room and giving a talk and then I came down and Trump was shutting down the country and I said what the hell is going on? And my wife had said previously, she had said should we get masks? Now she's a first class honours engineer and she's aware of a lot of my work but she assumed COVID was a big deal and I just smiled and this was early March I think and I said not at all sure. I saw the Diamond Princess data and you could see from who died and who didn't that it was going to be a bad flu equivalent. I mean, there's no question about that. The ship had shared AC. They were crammed together. They got 25% positivity. It was an extreme maximiser of infection. So you see the end result. And a few people in their late 70s and late 80s passed away. That was it. So we knew. But when they shut the airports, I said okay they're gonna pull a swine flu and they're gonna pull a big swine flu, a scam. And got back to Ireland and after that I just started interviewing immunologists, virologists, epidemiologist because when I will call something constantly I check with my massive network and my massive network of specialist in all the medical fields grew rapidly because a lot of people out there who are seeing that this is crazy. And so within a few months, I knew not only everything you needed to know about COVID, the mortality impact, the lockdown ineffectiveness, mask ineffectiveness, seasonality, I cracked the whole lot with the help of my network. And I began to explain it in layperson's terms. And that's when I began to get smashed, put in the newspapers, and censored. Even though I didn't talk any anti-vax, any crazy stuff, everything I said was referenced to government data. I was very careful. But in September, my viral video shot up to millions of views, half an hour, just me with slides, just explaining all the factors in COVID, just what it was. And the New York Times did a half-page article on me. It's like, whoa, a half-page hit piece on an Irish engineer. But at that stage, I knew that this was a total orchestrated scam. There was no question. So it didn't actually surprise me that the New York Times devoted half a page to an Irish engineer because the system and the media particularly were owned. And my video had corporate CEOs. They actually said it in the article. A leader in the COVID scam in the US, I forget his name, said, I have people from major companies, CEOs, coming to me asking, is this Irish guy right? So it shocked them. Just truth. Just truth. That's all it was. Well I think we learned people are hungry for information and that information is becoming, can be more difficult to access. But I want to go, I mean, I'd love to pick you up on that, on the. Fascinating. I know your book, Eat Rich Live Long, is available. Links are in the description and people can get a hold of that. And that health is a hot topic, but I want to talk to you about Ireland and the restrictions on speech. I mean Ireland has had incitement to hatred, hate speech laws for I think it was 89 or 90 was introduced, the UK has had it across Europe, but what is happening in Ireland at the moment with this new piece of legislation has really woken a lot of people up. I mean I saw an article in Newsweek magazine a couple of days ago and they were saying this cannot go ahead, this is Orwellian hate speech. Do you want to just let us know what exactly has been proposed in Ireland? Yeah, well, for sure, you're absolutely right, Peter, to refer to the 1989 Hate Speech Act, because that was actually very good legislation. It is still 100% perfect legislation for what they claim may be a problem, because it is quite powerful. It's been used, I believe, 50 times plus. And if you go out and make hate speech that could cause injury or cause hatred towards people or minorities, yada, yada, yada, they can go after you. No problem. So the law is there. It's perfectly functional. Needs no upgrade. What they brought out, it seems to be, I don't know, a Soros, an NGO coming down from the UN, maybe using Ireland as a test case for the most extreme madness that they're willing to try out in the test bed of Ireland. But what's in it is just lunatic. Now, people listening, they know it's terrible and it's great to hear Newsweek featured it. And it is, of course, Orwellian. But the extent to which it's insane, I can't even believe the bad guys want this or wrote this. So essentially, there's layers of madness. One is that they don't define hate speech really at all. And Michael McDowell, the former Attorney General in Ireland, was fantastic in the Irish Parliament questioning the Justice Minister on this point, it's not defined. And he said, I've heard the reason discussed for not defining hate speech was it could make it more difficult to convict people. And he said, that's the point. It should be difficult to convict in these kinds of matters, so it should be defined, so you get the right guy. So that's one point, It's not defined. There's around 10 groups, arbitrary, that they've listed out, like traveling people, and trans, and sexual, and gender, all this nonsense, none of whom has a problem anymore with hate speech. There is no far right in Ireland worth a toss. None of these groups have any real issue, right? So that's the other layer, not defining. And the other thing is that they've put in that a single guard, based on someone whispering in his ear, can get a local, very low-level court warrant and come into your house and take everything, anything and everything. It's like, wow. It can be diaries, it can be phones, it can be computers. They could take them for weeks, I would guess. And if you don't give a PIN number, that's also listed as an offence. If you say, I don't know the PIN for that, it's an old phone, that's an offence with six months in prison potentially and a big fine. That's another insanity. And when they take it, if they find anything under the undefined hate speech kind of thing, right, they can say, well, okay, that's private. You wrote this down. You could write a diary and you could say, oh, I hate this group and I don't like that group and I think they should be thrown out. Whatever you want, which you're entitled to. Of course, you're entitled to write that stuff. I wouldn't agree with it, but if you believe that, go ahead. Keep it to yourself. It is up to you to prove to a judge that you would never in the future have shared that. So it's guilty until proven innocent has been put in this. It is thought crime. It is 1984. It is minority report. Remember the movie with Tom Cruise? They see that you will commit a crime in the future using futuristic technology and they come and arrest you. It's like that but much worse because your private writings, memes, God knows what's on your computer from stuff you've downloaded or had sent to you. You have to prove you would not in the future share that. I mean, it is just beyond notes, hopefully, you know, well, you know already. It's just insane. I keep using the word insane for this because I'm blown away, even me after three years of COVID. People need to understand that. It is insane. There's no other word. Has this come in, I mean, the UK have obviously got the online safety bill. That's another issue. And then the EU passed a bill, proposed a bill, which now passed just days later. But this, you're right, it's difficult to understand when legislation exists to tackle a so-called crime or injustice. And that's already there and everyone says that can be used and there's no issue with it being used. And then something else is brought in place, supposedly to correct a problem that isn't addressed and yet it is. And it is this confusion, I guess, and of course, we don't have the media reporting this or asking why. It's simply, well, are you for hate? I'm not for hate, therefore you want this bill. I mean, talk to us about the pushback on this and has it been scrutinized at all? Yeah, there's no scrutiny at all. I mean, basically, we know now, and it's not even controversial, I think, recently a TD or an MEP, an Irish MEP was asked, oh, what do you think of coming back to Ireland, back to Irish politics and the Dáil? And he said, well, no, and he casually let a cat out of the bag. And he said in the interview on record, he said people don't realize that over 70% of legislation comes from Europe, down to Ireland. So he said, to be honest, I'm better off over here, because that's where the control is. He didn't say control, but he said the first piece. And that's it. So essentially, I would say this is the simple way to view it now. Over the last couple of decades, increasingly, and now it's largely complete, when people go into politics, first of all, people got to remember the skill that brings you into politics is the opposite of technical, mathematical, logical. You go in there with so-called people skills. You know the type, right? So they go in there and they're kind of useless technically. Anyone can fool them, even though they're cunning. Anyone can fool them technically. And with legal matters, will fool them. So the people that go into politics now, especially in Ireland, we're like a vassal state of EU, UN, WEF. You know, we're really bad. That's why we had the longest lockdown in Europe. So they go in anyway and they quickly find out, political people find out where the power is. Like a lady said years ago about Washington, when you go into the Senate in Washington, an old guy said to her, you got to lean to the green. And he didn't mean environmentalism, he meant the dollar, you got to lean to the big guys, the money, the lobbyists, if you want to be successful. So in Ireland, they go in, they quickly find out it's all about the EU and keeping the big boys happy, and the UN and the WEF. And if you get invited to Davos, oh my God, that's the pinnacle of Irish political success. So you get the idea. So when it came to the Dáil, this legislation, they all just said, oh yeah, yeah, great. Oh, hate, love. Oh, we're all lovey-dovey. Oh, trans, you know, Ukraine, all this stuff. So all the politicians just signed it off. Didn't even read it. If they read page 10 and 11 and they had a brain, they'd say, oh my god, but they didn't. You know they didn't read it. They were all told it's great and they all signed it. And then when it was coming up to the Senate and then it would go to the President, then people began to get wind of it and began to talk about it. And then it became a problem. And then Elon Musk began to talk about it and said, what the hell's going on in Ireland? And then they started and saying, oh, he's right wing, he's an anti-Semite. There are politicians judging Elon Musk. It's like an ant judging God. It's just crazy. So also, I think it was someone connected to Trump, not Trump himself, made comments on how crazy it was. And then he did a big article, oh, Trump. Trump doesn't want it, because they know people think Trump's bad. It was propaganda to the power of 10, because they wanted it true and the media wanted it true. You know, the media all wanted it true. So luckily the Senate actually, it didn't go past and it got delayed. You know, that's all they could do. They delayed it. And then shockingly based on the stabbings of some poor children, actually migrant children, I believe. They used the anger in the public from the gross, excessive, uncontrolled migration in the last year or two. There's anger. 75% of Irish people or more in a Red Sea official poll said immigration has gone way too far, uncontrolled. It needs to be pulled back in control. So the majority in the country believes that. But the anger that's there in the country, smaller percentage of people are very angry. and a bunch of hoodlums caused a riot. They smashed windows, burned buses. They didn't beat anyone up and they didn't go after any migrants. They did a smash and grab spree on the back of public sentiment. And with the children being stabbed, it was an opportunity, it's happened before. Nothing to do with far right, nothing to do with political ideology. It was opportunistic from a bunch of hoodlums in hoodies. And the video showed that. and the government actually used that problem that they caused, right? They then tried to flip truth upside down and use the problem to ram the insane law through. You couldn't make it up unless you knew how loathsome, low-life's our politicians are and how utterly controlled they are from the NGOs and all the other groups up top. It is just shocking, right? Well, I want to go down the Irish politics side, but you need a catalyst in the UK, the catalyst for the online safety bill was the stabbing and murder of David Amess MP and that immediately everyone came out and said we need this online safety bill. Even with that individual was possibly radicalised in his local mosque but that's a conversation you weren't allowed to have so we'll just focus on. We've seen the issue there in Ireland and the government have not wasted the opportunity to jump on that. I was even looking at that and thinking, is this contrived? I mean, governments need a catalyst to push forward. And if something happens, they can point and say, look, we told you so. This is why it's needed. And everyone comes together. I mean, what were your thoughts on how that happened? And has that been the main catalyst or have other things happened to push it forward? Yeah, there was talk of, you know, there's always talk of kind of false flag and don't get me wrong, there's a ton of false flag and there's a ton of Hegelian kind of mechanisms that have been used since all of human history, problem, reaction, solution. You create a problem, essentially, you then use propaganda to get a big reaction to it. And then you come in with your pre ordained solution and everyone goes, yeah, we'll take it. So COVID's a classic example of that. A lab created gain-of-function virus. It comes out. They see that it's got a little bit of pathology to it or pathological effect. It's going to kill older people mainly. And they big it up. And then they say they have a solution, the vaccine. So there's a lot of that. This one here, I really think, because I'm a logic and data guy and I go on probabilities. That's the centre of my universe. The overwhelming probability, I would say, that guy has not worked, I believe, in 20 years since he came here, the person who did the stabbing, and probably has all kinds of issues. And I think they've even referred in some articles to some of that indirectly. They don't want to identify him. I think that was just a happening. And we saw it earlier, a girl was stabbed by, again, a migrant who had issues. And even locally in my area, a similar thing occurred a few years ago, a very tragic case with a family. So these things happen, you know, when migrants come to places, sometimes they're under pressure, they don't have the language, they develop issues. So I think that just did kind of happen. But the exploiting of it, well, like I said, is just criminal. And the reason it blew up, if that was a very rare occurrence and it just happened, and it wasn't after a year or two of increasing public discomfort, like the poll said, they know that the towns around Ireland, little towns, are getting stuffed with migrants. And they can see they're young males mainly. They're not women and children from Ukraine, come on. I mean, down in South East Wexford, there was a nursing home being built for a community of 1,200. And a couple of weeks ago, it transpired that suddenly it's not being built. It's being built in a different direction for 170 young male migrants, young male migrants, unmarried. And they're looking at bringing it up to 400 over time. Now, a thousand people marched and of course the media all sniffed and sneered at them like they're far right. It's their community. It's insane. I mean, the numbers that came in in the last six or 12 months is like 100k and the graph of the numbers coming in went through the roof. And O'Gorman, I think the minister last year, he did this, it's on the record, sent out a tweet, not in Ukrainian. In Ukrainian, Georgian, and African languages. And he basically said, Ireland's open. You'll have a house within four months. We get you a phone. We get you loads of money. Whatever. I don't know what was in it. But it was translated into all African languages and everything. So he's on the record. They want to flood the zone. And the reasons for that go back to the Pan-European Union in the 30s and speeches in 2009, I think, by, who was that CEO of Goldman Sachs who became a big UN guy, not Robinson, forget his name, an Irish guy originally. He gave a huge speech and he said it outright. We have to destroy nationalism. We have to destroy sovereignty in the EU countries. We have to break it down. And the mechanism, the best mechanism for that, besides pouring US junk television in, right? And phones, you know, the best thing is flood in very different people, ideally young males, and blend the country into a blob so we can get a big blob in Europe without any national identities. So they're actually destroying diversity because we had all these countries that you could freely travel to and see their culture. and then you come back home and you talk about it, that's actually diversity. They're all peaceful, all lovely, but they want to end diversity. They just want to make a blob because a blob can easily be translated into a super state or a China-style society. Very hard to do it when you've got identifiable nationalities in Europe. It's so simple, isn't it? This is a hundred-year-old brainstorm strategy that's clearly being deployed recently. Big scale. That's it, no racism. In fact, last thing I'll say, sorry I'm on a rant here, it's morning time, but Peter, the last thing I'd say, and this is so important for people to know and understand, The people who are using minorities from other countries as cattle, literally using them as pawns in their chess game to get their globalist Europe and globalist West, they are the ultimate racists because they have absolute scorn and contempt for poor people from all over the world that they're forcing into countries and creating difficult situations where there may be, you know, certain amounts of racism stoked and provoked, you know, like a hornet's nest, keep shoving in people, they don't have accommodation, our homeless can't get accommodation, they've ignored them for decades, and now they're shoving in hundreds of thousands with, we already have an accommodation problem, what's going to happen? But the people driving this, they are the racists. I am the opposite of racist, my record is clear, they'd love to call me one, but they can't because I have a full record on social media and forever. Absolutely the opposite. In fact, I've often shared anti-racial movies and films on my Twitter, like Kenneth Branagh, 2001 conspiracy, it's called, about Wannsee in Germany in 1942 or three. I'm clearly an anti-racist. They hate that. But that said, I know racists when I see them and the people driving the policy are racists. And of course there's nothing you can say or push back if you're called names which is this legislation about offending and finding offense and if someone has been offended you cannot prove that in a court that, you cannot prove your feelings in court and of course when someone calls you whatever, racist, xenophobe, Islamophobe, the list goes on, you can argue and you can push back but it's already been decided by whatever individual has said. They have decided and therefore you are because they have spoken. And that declaration of speech, you know, truth goes out the window. It's the issue on pronouns. If someone wants to use a pronoun then they define that person who is a man, is a woman and that must be true. And that kind of removal of truth, not only in this legislation but I guess across Europe for all the hate speech which is simply if someone finds offense then it is decided that a crime has been committed. It's beyond absurdity but also it's very malign and clever. So the people I refer to are driving this as a geopolitical crucial strategy this is not small stuff, that's why it's getting so much funding and backing. it's very important for broader globalist. Kind of government desires and to make ultimately, we won't get into detail, the intention is to translate the UN into the world government or for the West. The UN is being built and built and built and we can see the insanity coming from Guterres, the head of the UN. We're now global boiling. We're no longer warming, all nonsense. The UN is being teed up. So there's a lot put into this thing and hate speech because it is important because free speech increasingly could cause a real problem for basically plans that have been grown beautifully for 70 or 80 years since post-World War II. So, you know, too big to fail. They can't let all of the plans of geopolitical, you know, structure and infrastructure that have been built for a half century, they can't let it fail because people all start becoming aware of it and talking about it, that's why there's this extreme kind of insane zeal to get in the laws, because they're important, and people need to realize that. And you say you can call. Yeah, once you call someone a racist, the judge is going to roll over. That's the sick thing. We saw in COVID, several people brought very good cases, and they assigned a lower-level judge to check if the cases were appropriate to bring forward in the system. I didn't realize they could do this. They did. So there were mask challenges and other challenges. This judge, she went in and looked at everyone. No, I don't think that's, no, that's not required. One judge threw them all out before they even got in the system. So you know what will happen. If the government don't like someone, they'll try to nail them on this law, and the judge will be in the pocket. The judges now are no longer really independent. We saw that in COVID. They know where the wind's blowing, and they do their job. A lot of them are appointed. So that's institutional corruption gone crazy. And another one I just thought when you were talking, Peter, there was a communist activist, a very significant person. I can't remember his name, but back in America before the McCarthy era, when America was big, there were a lot of activists who wanted America to go communisto or fascististo. And one of them was caught with, not emails at that time, but circulars to all their activists. And he said to them, and he was right, very clever. he said always call our detractors, our opponents, always call them a fascist. Now he said be careful, don't call someone a fascist if it can blow back on you. In other words, don't always do it, but whenever you can, call them a fascist. And he said if we keep repeating this on an individual, after a while the people will largely just come to believe it's true. And he said, it's the most dirty word and the dirty label you can put in someone right now. So use it. And you can see now that that advice was excellent, but it turned out it all failed in America until recently. Now they've got Biden and all the rest. They're getting, they're getting to communism. But yeah, exactly that. They know that racism is powerful. if you can make it even stick a bit and get your media to keep repeating it, people will assume, well that's the racist guy. I mean, it's shocking, it's criminal, but this is the game they play. Yeah, you talked about the 70 year. I mean, I'm still blown away having grown up in Dublin, Limerick, first like nine years of my life. It was rough, but actually it was conservative as a country. You had Fianna Gael, Fianna Fáil, polar opposites in theory. Now they're all together, the union party. Has this been sped up simply with the bailout after the financial crash, with Europe then calling the shots? Because if you look at Italy and Greece, they've kind of held on to their identity. And Ireland has always been known for a strong identity. That seems to have gone out the window. Obviously, COVID has sped things up, and that's part of it. But is it the crash? Is it that Ireland is now beholden to Europe because of that or talk to us about that because the collapse in Irish society has been unbelievable. Yeah, I think it's not so much the bailout more as the symptom of the problem. I mean the fact that Ireland kowtowed and the EU, the EU flooded the zone with money. They told Ireland flood the zone and the little Irish went off and they flooded the zone for the EU overlords and it suited them because there's money everywhere and everyone was happy. And then the piper came to be paid, and they went with cap in hand, and they gave away all our money to the bondholders. So I think Ireland back then was just a biatch, really. It wasn't that they got them then, they'd already got them. So I think it's been many decades, Ireland, maybe partially because of the history of the British rule, the Irish became culturally doff the cap to the big man. They might grumble, but they doff the cap. So Ireland, over the last 30 or 40 years, we saw it with all the referendums. They were rammed through or run several times to get through. The Irish intelligentsia, politicos, Europe was the big boy. And they dropped to their knees for Europe all the way. And then they took in the corporations, did the double dutch, the tax thing. They're allowing them to get away with 1% effective tax rate. So they played the kind of beggar to the American corporations. And I think over 50% of our GDP now is biotech and pharma. So we're just kind of biatches for the pharma sector. So you can see Ireland has made itself into a kind of a rent boy on the global market. Let's be honest. It's sad, but that's the way it is. But people are waking up to that and begin to realize, my God, our whole echelon of politicians are actually, by definition, essentially traitors. Because we're voting for them and they're immediately giving their allegiance straight up the chain to forces outside the country. So they're actually technically traitors. So I think that's kind of what happened to Ireland and it showed in the longest lockdown in Europe, it shows in the hate speech laws, a test bed for this craziness. It shows in every interview when you see these goons we have up the top. It's just disgusting, like, right? And was that the total question about why Ireland? Did I miss something there?  No, it's just, I find it curious, having grown up there, first nine, ten years of my life, and just seeing that collapse, and you kind of think, that's not the Ireland that I knew growing up, and then you realise it's not. It's changed beyond all recognition, with no media pushback, no political pushback, And then if you don't have Fine Gael or Fianna fail, you've got Sinn Féin, you're thinking, hmm, could this thing get worse? Okay, I'll tell you something about Sinn Féin. I mean, Sinn Féin during COVID, the government did the most insane, crazy-ass, unscientific, damaging, nonsensical measures, the worst in Europe almost. And Sinn Féin were screaming at them to do more. I mean, I'm not joking. They were literally screaming at the government, saying, you're not keeping us safe. And it was the same in all the issues. So Sinn Féin are an unmitigated disaster. They're the opposite of opposition. So they play this pantomime. And I think there's a hashtag, politics is panto. And it's so true nowadays. It's a fricking pantomime. And Sinn Féin go up and argue with the government, and the government argue back with Sinn Féin. It's all a joke. It's all a club. At the end of the day, they are all aligned with each other, really, at the Dáil bar and behind the scenes. And the reason that they're all aligned, this is the important thing, I've said it already, they all understand there's big power structures in the world, and we kow tow to them. Therefore, there's no point arguing amongst each other except as a pantomime for our voters. That's it. I mean, it sounds kind of conspiracy theory. It's basic geopolitics. Now that we have a world structure of World Economic Forum, UN, EU, and I mean, recently Professor Werner, who invented quantitative easing in 95, I interviewed him. He's an expert in central banking and all the political. He worked for the Japanese government during their financial challenges as a direct advisor, chief advisor. Learned Japanese, fluent German, fluent English, master's, PhDs from Oxford. Brilliant man. But he told me something that I actually didn't realize. He said, you know the European Parliament has no real power. It's a talk shop. The European Commission decides the laws, the Commission. And the Commission are essentially not elected. And he said, you know what other region in the last 100 years had that exact structure, and they've almost taken it from them? Soviet Union. They have a parliament, people aren't too aware, and they have a Politburo, a commission, and it's the same structure. The parliament, you let them all talk and pretend that they've got some control, but the party decides. He said, essentially, and he said, one or two or a couple of Russian historians, have noted this in the early 2000s, academically, that fascinatingly, Europe is recreating the Soviet model. And people don't know that. And of course, under that model, the EU Commission, who are diplomatic immunity, no army or police can enter their grounds under any condition, a bit like central banks, they decide, the parliament then, And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, everyone, blah, blah, gets very high salaries, tax-free. All the people from the countries go over there and suck on the teat of Europe. They have a great time, meals for everyone, best of steaks. And they go, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And that's that. And then the countries, of course, they just doff the cap increasingly. You look at Hungary, they say, we don't want to do this. And if you go against Europe, they take the whole European media, and they feckin' bury you. They bury you in accusations of far-right, nationalistic. They take away all the EU money. They cause you pain. So this is what we have. We have a new Soviet structure that wants to become a Chinese social credit-style full totalitarian structure. It's just what it wants. The organism of the geopolitical top strata in Europe, they want the full power. It's just natural, it's in the DNA now of the whole structure, it's not any one individual or one bad guy. Yeah, it's driven primarily from the late 50s by Rockefeller Brothers Fund and all the other bad guys and NGOs and CFR and all these groups and the Club of Rome, they're all pushing one way and that's it, it's simple guys, it's not a big conspiracy theory, it's just geopolitics has gone the wrong way for us. And a lot of bad guys have ended at the top. That's all. Happened in Rome. Jesus!  Yeah, and you see pushback across Europe with the rise of populist parties. Ireland and the UK sadly are sitting on their backsides with now, but that's a whole lot. I just want to just finish off on where you think this, the bill will go. It's been, what my understanding was, been in the Senate since maybe July, so and it was passed up. It's been sitting there now with more scrutiny. Where does it go? Because the police obviously will have to be sent out to police all these tweets which I thought they could do under the legislation but this is darker. Is there a way of turning it around so we just accuse everyone on the left of hurtful comments and the police must investigate? I mean is there requirement for an investigation. I'm just thinking of how you push back because this is going to pass through. I can't see any way it stopped. Yeah, I'm not entirely sure, Peter. Yes, they say we need a true by Christmas and all this talk, but they're not divulging what's actually happening. So I'm not sure what's actually happening on the ground mind you a very senior politician secretly met with me and a team of doctors, surgeons and businessmen back in September 2020. Very senior I obviously won't name in private and pretty much told us that most the politicians knew most of what I was sharing about COVID but he said, no everyone knows you don't talk about it and you support the narrative. So there's that level of institutional corruption, and I'm sure now there's similar stuff going on. A lot of the senators will have found out from their bloody daughters from social media how insane this is, but they'll know, shit, this is important. It comes from the big boys up top. We can't let them down. So I don't know exactly what's going on. I'm still hoping absolutely that with the focus on it, that they'll have to hold back their nonsense about these riots being a reason to bring in this insane law. I presume they're thinking, hmm, that's not washing. So I hope it's not inevitable. If it does happen, we got a massive problem. There's no question about that, because once it's in, it is a tool for tyranny waiting there like a nuclear weapon. sitting there on the statute of books with no place there, a criminal law, criminal in its very drafting. Criminal in its drafting, that's how bad it is. It's bad, but I guess, yeah, possibly be able to use it against itself. But you know, the judiciary and all of these bent politicians will be striving to throw out any cases involving it for leftists or nut jobs. And they'll be hyper trying to influence judges and police to use it on the people the government doesn't like. God, it's very sinister, isn't it? It's literally a tool of government to suppress people who don't agree with the government, which is treason in my mind. I mean, it might not be the exact definition. I don't care. It's treason. Well, we're all following this closely and praying and hoping that actually it is stopped. Ivor, great to have you on. Obviously, people can find you @FatEmperor on Twitter and thefatemperor.com. They can see all the videos, interviews up there on the website. Really appreciate your time today. Thanks so much for joining us. Thanks so much, Peter. And if people are wondering, I'm down south in an undisclosed location, but that's me fox there. I picked it up. It's from an old country estate in Wexford that was stripped. Guy had it for 10 years, got it for 200 euro. Beautiful case, probably 100 years old plus. So anyway, bit of trivia.  That's probably a hate crime against foxes. But anyway, we'll leave it there. Thanks, Ivor. Good luck, Peter. Bye now.

Themen der Folge: Berlin ist eine vielfältige und multikulturelle Stadt mit einzigartigen Identitäten in den einzelnen Stadtteilen. Der Verkehr und die Infrastruktur in Berlin, insbesondere der Autoverkehr und der Verfall bestimmter Gegenden wie der Friedrichstraße, geben Anlass zur Sorge. Zu den beliebten Orten in Berlin gehören der Teufelsberg, der Wannsee und das Schokoladenhaus. Zu den empfohlenen Restaurants in Berlin gehören Rebaltone und Ostelria del Sud. Bell Boys ist eine empfehlenswerte Bar mit einem versteckten Raum für ein intimeres Erlebnis. Folge direkt herunterladen

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231205PC WinterwonderlandMensch Mahler am 05.12.2023Der Duft von Glühwein und Gänsebraten liegt in der Luft. Das Blockhaus Nikolskoe am Havelufer ist mit einer Schneedecke überzuckert. Massen von Weihnachtsbäumen warten auf Abnehmer. Der Organist in der Nikolskoer Kirche St. Peter und Paul intoniert Weihnachtslieder, die die zahlreichen Gäste gerne mitsingen. Es ist die Kunden-Weihnachtsfeier von Radio Paradiso. Und gelichzeitig ist es ein Abschied, wie er stimmungsvoller nicht sein kann. Denn der kleine Wannsee ist Geschichte. 26 Jahre war dort das Radiohaus und die Studios von Radio Paradiso. Ich durfte von Anfang an dabei sein. Und so verdrücke ich Tränchen, als ich am Sonntagnachmittag dieses wunderschöne Fleckchen Erde verlasse. Unzählige Geschichten, glückliche Momente, Krisen, Kämpfe um die Lizenz und um ausreichend Taler, um die radioaktiven tollen Leute zu bezahlen, die mit Herzblut und Leidenschaft Programm gemacht haben. Für die Hörerinnen und Hörer. Ein Programm, das unterhält und informiert, etwas von der Leichtigkeit und dem Tiefgang des Lebens vermittelt.Dir Zeiten ändern sich. Paradiso ist vom beschaulichen Wannsee mitten ins Großstadtgetümmel umgezogen. In der Nähe vom Checkpoint Charly sind jetzt die Studios und das Marketing zu Hause. Das ist ja auch symbolhaft zu verstehen: Wir wollen bei den Menschen sein. Dort, wo das Herz der Hauptstadt schlägt. Nah dran.Und so machen wir weiter. Ich kann als Senior immer noch dabei sein und meine Meinung kundtun. Wir wollen Haltung zeigen. Mitten im Haifischbecken Privatfunk sind wir zwar auch nicht die letzten verbliebenen Gutmenschen. Aber doch solche, die nicht nur Dollar-Zeichen in den Augen haben sondern auch die Menschen. Haltung in einer Zeit, in der für viele der Halt verloren geht. Mögen sie sich weiter gute Gedanken und wertvolle Anregungen bei uns abholen. Wie immer verpackt in den besten Musikmix, den wir für sie, unsere Hörerinnen und Hörer, zusammenstellen. Dream on, Radio Paradiso. Und lass die Träume Boden unter die Füße bekommen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hoy titulamos con la apasionante historia del alfabeto, esa magnífica herramienta que nos permite comunicar lo humano y lo divino con tan solo memorizar unas decenas de signos. Veréis que se trata de un viaje de miles de años desde la primera lengua semítica que se plasmó de este modo. Un viaje para el que contaremos con una guia de lujo, nuestra insigne Isabel García Trócoli en su sección, la Piqueta de la Arqueoloca. Sabremos acerca de quíenes se cree que fueron los responsables del origen del alfabeto y de cómo se desarrolló. La segunda propuesta nos llevará a recorrer el mundo para acompañar a la naturista y pintora Marianne North, una mujer intrépida que en pleno siglo XIX realizó cientos de obras con plantas como protagonistas, dejando no solo un legado artístico sino también científico. North compartirá el protagonismo del monográfico con un compatriota suyo, el botánico y explorador Frank Kingdon-Ward. Cerramos con la sección que recuperamos de anteriores temporadas hablando sobre la Conferencia de Wannsee. La misma supuso la puesta en marcha definitiva de la llamada solución final de la cuestión judía. Un grupo de altos cargos del funcionariado nazi determinó y pormenorizó el modo en el que se desarrollaría el Holocausto a lo largo de Europa, persiguiendo el exterminio de millones de personas. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Иппотерапия считается методом нетрадицинной медицины. Он существует уже более полувека и помогает при многих болезнях - травмах опорно-двигательного аппарата, сердечно-сосудистых заболеваниях, стрессе и даже параличе. Занятия по иппотерапии проводят в специализированных центрах. Как, например, в "Центре конной терапии" в берлинском районе Wannsee. Von Elena Wosowik.

Glienicker Brücke neboli Glienický most vede přes řeku Havolu, spojuje berlínskou čtvrť Wannsee s Postupimí. Za studené války byl součástí Berlínské zdi, hraničním mostem, předělem mezi Západním a Východním Německem. Říká se mu Most špionů, protože se na něm třikrát odehrála výměna „agentů“: v únoru 1962, v červnu 1985 – a 11. února 1986.

Glienicker Brücke neboli Glienický most vede přes řeku Havolu, spojuje berlínskou čtvrť Wannsee s Postupimí. Za studené války byl součástí Berlínské zdi, hraničním mostem, předělem mezi Západním a Východním Německem. Říká se mu Most špionů, protože se na něm třikrát odehrála výměna „agentů“: v únoru 1962, v červnu 1985 – a 11. února 1986.Všechny díly podcastu Příběhy 20. století můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Die 46-jährige Politikerin Giorgia Meloni, Vorsitzende der als postfaschistisch klassifizierten Partei "Fratelli d'Italia", ist seit mehr als einem Jahr in einer rechten Dreierkoalition Ministerpräsidentin in Italien. In der Außen- und Europapolitik hat sie bisher die meisten Befürchtungen widerlegt. Sie unterstützt die Ukraine, sucht in der Migrations- und Asylpolitik den internationalen Konsens. Doch innenpolitisch ist einiges in Bewegung geraten. Vor allem im Medien- und Kulturbereich wurden Schlüsselposten neu besetzt. Und in einer historischen Ausstellung am Gardasee spürt man sogar eine gewisse Mussolini-Nostalgie. Ein Essay von Friederike Haupt. Am 18. Januar 2024 wird die weltbekannte US-Künstlerin Kiki Smith 70 Jahre alt. Aus diesem Anlass werden gerade in Freising und in München Ausstellungen ihrer Werke gezeigt. Außerdem hat sie in Bayern eine neue Kapelle eingerichtet. Seit vielen Jahrzehnten erschafft die in Nürnberg geborene Smith zusammen mit der Mayer'schen Hofkunstanstalt in München wunderbare Werke aus Glas. Sie bilden eine friedliche, in allen Teilen miteinander verbundene Welt ab. "Ich denke immer, das ganze Universum ist in einer Art Liebesvereinbarung", sagt Kiki Smith. Wir haben mit ihr darüber gesprochen. Sie war eine "Naturgewalt, wirklich unwiderstehlich, von allen bewundert, wenn auch gelegentlich ein wenig gefürchtet, denn sie schreckte vor niemandem und nichts zurück." So beschrieb die Galeristin Marianne Felichenfeldt ihre Freundin Grete Ring. Diese hatte als eine der ersten Frauen Kunstgeschichte studiert, war Wissenschaftlerin und Kritikerin gewesen, bevor sie 1926 den Kunstsalon Cassirer in Berlin übernahm, damals die wichtigste Kunstgalerie der deutschen Hauptstadt. Jetzt erinnert eine Ausstellung in der Max-Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee an Grete Ring, eine Pionierin des Kunsthandels. Ein Beitrag von Barbara Bogen

Der deutsche Oktober des Jahres 1923 war eine Zeit multipler Krisen – aber er war meteorologisch, zumindest partiell, auch ein goldener Herbst. Dass überall im Reich Aufstände aufbrachen und Putschgerüchte die Runde machten, dass die Inflation in schwindelerregende Höhen schoss, Grundnahrungsmittel kaum noch erschwinglich waren und eine Vossische Zeitung am Montag, dem 15. Oktober, schlappe 30 Millionen Mark kostete – all das konnte man für einen Moment verdrängen, wenn man sich eben dort auf Seite 4 mit Feuilletonchef Monty Jacobs zum Wannsee begab und mit einer Prozession von Segelschiffen symbolisch-melancholisch den Sommer zu Grabe trug. Schöner kann man die Segel kaum reffen, für uns tut dies Paula Rosa Leu.

Mit dem Regio ganz entspannt vom Wannsee nach Bad Belzig - das haben mein Mann und ich letztes Wochenende gemacht und die Stadt sofort ins Herz geschlossen. Historische Altstadt, viel Natur drum herum, freundliche Leute morgens beim Bäcker, eine imposante Burg und natürlich die Steintherme. Wir beiden geborenen West-Berliner waren noch nie zuvor da und dachten einfach nur: wie schön ist es hier und wie zufrieden wirken die Menschen. Warum erzähle ich das? Weil morgen der Tag der Einheit ist. 33 Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung wurde auch wieder Bilanz gezogen. Staatsminister Carsten Schneider, der sogenannte ‚Ostbeauftragte‘ hat letztens den Bericht zur Deutschen Einheit vorgestellt. Danach wurden strukturelle Differenzen zwischen Ost- und West-Deutschland zwar abgebaut oder sind mittlerweile verschwunden. Die Renten und der Mindestlohn sind z.B. inzwischen angeglichen. Dennoch gibt‘s aber weiterhin Unterschiede bei Gehältern oder auch Erbschaften. Schneider ist aber für einen differenzierten Blick: Den Osten an sich gebe es nicht mehr, sondern er sei vielfältig, sagt er. Größte Herausforderung sei in vielen Regionen die demografische Entwicklung: Zwischen 1991 und 2021 wanderten rund vier Millionen Ostdeutsche in das frühere Bundesgebiet ab, meist junge Erwachsene im Alter zwischen 18 und 29 Jahren. «Eine ganze Generation ist damit praktisch weg», sagt Schneider. Hinzu kommt - man höre und staune - eine geringere Zuwanderung aus dem Ausland in den Osten. Eine gesellschaftliche Aufgabe wäre also eine gesteuerte Zuwanderung und eine Rückwanderung nach Ostdeutschland, damit Regionen dort wieder aufblühen können. Vielleicht ja nach Bad Belzig, Das hieß übrigens früher nur Belzig und war der geographische Mittelpunkt der DDR. Das nur am Rande. Wo und wie auch immer, ich wünsche Ihnen einen schönen Feiertag! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Summary In this episode, I travel to Wannsee, Germany, a suburb of Berlin, where on January 20, 1942, 15 high-ranking Nazis gathered in a villa to resolve various aspects of the “final solution of the Jewish problem.” I need to stand where terror and genocide were launched on a continental scale.

Das Strandbad Wannsee des Architekten Richard Ermisch zählt zu den ikonischen Bauten der Neuen Sachlichkeit und darf in keinem Buch über das Berlin der Weimarer Republik fehlen. Errichtet wurde es freilich erst Ende der 1920er Jahre, nachdem ein Brand das alte Bad teilweise zerstört hatte und dessen Kapazitäten zuvor ohnehin an ihre Grenzen gestoßen waren. Einen lebendigen Eindruck, von dem Andrang, der an heißen Sommertagen hier tatsächlich geherrscht hatte, gibt ein Bericht aus dem 8-Uhr-Abendblatt vom 16. Juli 1923. Obwohl der Wannsee erst 1907 zum Baden freigegeben worden war, präsentiert er sich hier bereits als die berühmt-berüchtigte Badewanne der Berliner, von der der namenlos bleibende Autor mit kräftigem Pinsel ein eindrucksvolles Wimmelbild zeichnet. Paula Rosa Leu hat es sich für uns angesehen und eingelesen.

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In dieser Folge mit Anika, Robin und Meike: „Wandering Souls“ von Cecile Pin, „Mirmar“ von Josefine Soppa und „Kasse 19“ von Claire-Louise Bennett. Papierstau Podcast on the road: Diesmal beim Alfred-Döblin-Preis in Berlin. Bei der von Günter Grass gestifteten Auszeichnung werden unveröffentlichte Prosa-Manuskripte prämiert - aber vorher wird im Literarischen Colloquium am Wannsee um die Wette gelesen. Wir haben den Gossip und verraten, was Euch von Thomas Hettche, Roman Ehrlich und natürlich Gewinner Jan Kuhlbrodt bald in Buchform erwartet!

Der Fall beginnt wie ein klassischer Krimi: Ein Mord im Villenviertel – und der Millionenerbe liegt tot in seinem Blut. Doch bald merken die Ermittler, dass beim Wannseemord alles anders ist, als es zunächst scheint.

Koning Willem-Alexander zit tien jaar op de troon en heeft een podcast. Toch is zijn aanzien en dat van de monarchie als instituut aan het afbladderen. Jaap Jansen en PG Kroeger kijken in historie en actualiteit naar de regelmatige worstelingen van de Oranjevorsten met hun politieke en symbolische rol, hun particuliere en publieke levens en hun pogingen daar een goed evenwicht in te vinden.***Op sommige podcast-apps kun je niet alles lezen. De complete tekst vind je altijd hier***Bij de recente presentatie van het boek van Jan Hoedeman De achilleshiel van de koning, monarchie onder druk was oud D66-leider Alexander Pechtold zeer openhartig. Maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen en een slonzige omgang van premier Mark Rutte met de rol en taken van het staatshoofd maken de vraag relevant of de monarchie op zijn eind loopt. Een ferm politiek besluit hierover is nodig, want je kunt dit onderwerp niet aan de Oranjes zelf overlaten, vindt Pechtold. Wat hem betreft stopt het sprookje na deze koning.Wie met enige distantie kijkt, ziet een regelmatig terugkerende discussie over de rol van de koning en de wijze waarop die rol in elke Oranjegeneratie werd ingevuld. PG vertelt hoe de allereerste koning Willem I worstelde met zijn nieuwe functie in een geheel nieuw koninkrijk. Vol ijver ontpopte hij zich als een ware autocraat, een Nederlandse tsaar.Maar zijn pogingen een nieuwe nationale eenheid af te dwingen liepen stuk op het idee dat hij dan ook een nationale kerk met zichzelf daarin als chef moest introduceren. Hij verspeelde de helft van zijn Nederlanden, de eensgezinde Hervormde Kerk, het respect van zijn vorstelijke collega's en ook van Haagse kringen. Gedesillusioneerd trad hij af.Zijn kleinzoon Willem III verging het niet lang daarna weinig beter. Zijn strijd tegen Thorbeckes Grondwet raakte vermengd met particuliere besognes. Die leidden vervolgens bijna tot een Europese oorlog. De koning bleek een pion in een Bismarckiaans schaakspel waarvan hij geen idee had. De vijf miljoen gulden die hij voor Luxemburg dacht te kunnen inpikken gingen aan zijn neus voorbij. Pruisen won, Frankrijk stond met lege handen en aan het Binnenhof werden de koning en zijn kabinet afgefakkeld. De kiezers straften de strapatsen twee keer op een rij scherp af.Ook koning Willem-Alexander worstelt met zijn rol nu de politieke aspecten daarvan gemarginaliseerd zijn, waarmee ook zijn symbolische betekenis verwatert. Pechtold waarschuwt zelfs voor het ontstaan van een vorstelijke versie van de Kardashians die voortdurend in beeld zijn en ophef en aandacht genereren.Dat is te meer kwetsbaar omdat de 'onschendbaarheid' van Thorbeckes constructie uitgaat van het vermogen van de vorst juist nimmer voor ophef te zorgen en zich boven alles bekommert om de nationale stabiliteit.Daarbij komt nog dat in ons land ook nog gehecht wordt aan een combinatie van allure én gewoonheid. Daarin de juiste balans vinden is steeds weer een lastige evenwichtsoefening. De podcast van de koning laat ook dat onbedoeld merken.***Deze aflevering is mede mogelijk gemaakt met donaties van luisteraars die we hiervoor hartelijk danken. Word ook vriend van de show!Heeft u belangstelling om in onze podcast te adverteren of ons te sponsoren? Stuur voor informatie een mailtje naar adverteren@dagennacht.nl***Verder lezenHet boek van Jan Hoedeman. Vrienden van de show kunnen meedingen naar een exemplaar van dit interessante boek. Informatie hoe, ontvang je via de mail of kun je lezen op Vriend van de show (alleen als je vriend bent!)***Verder pratenAlexander Pechtold gaat op dinsdag 25 april met belangstellenden in gesprek over de monarchie in buurthuis Oase, Cartesiusweg 11, Utrecht***Verder luisteren339 – De geopolitiek van de 19e eeuw is terug. De eeuw van Bismarck330 – Politieke paradoxen. Lessen uit de kabinetsformatie van 2021 Moet de koning weer de regie in handen nemen?314 - Prins Heinrich XIII en het verlangen naar een autoritair Duisland En de relatie met de Oranjes301 - Balkenende toch nog minister van Staat, precies 20 jaar na de val van zijn ongelukkige kabinet met de LPF293 - Hoe houd je een boeiende toespraak en wat moet je vooral niet doen? Is de Troonrede wel een echte toespraak?292 - De koningin is dood, leve de koning! De politiek van sterven en opvolgen286 - Extra zomeraflevering: PG tipt boeken! Wilhelmina kielhaalt minister Dijxhoorn274 - Thorbecke, denker en doener268 - En hoe moet het dan met Prinsjesdag? Het radicale plan van Sigrid Kaag239 - 2022: het jaar van Oranje, Wannsee en de opkomst in Europa van jonge, nieuwe leiders214 - Prinsjesdag 2021: Vorstelijke verblijven, vergeten prinsessen en koninklijke drama's213 - Van Agt/Den Uyl/Terlouw (1981), de verschrikkelijkste kabinetsformatie ooit Beatrix' eerste formatie210 - Kabinetsformatie 2021: Herman Tjeenk Willink over het verval van de democratische rechtsorde200 - De Heerser: Machiavelli's lessen zijn nog altijd actueel190 - Napoleon, 200 jaar na zijn dood: zijn betekenis voor Nederland en Europa Hij maakte ons land een koninkrijk129 - De rommelige historie van Prinsjesdag115 - Thomas Paine en De Rechten van de mens80 - Rutte en de ministeriële verantwoordelijkheid74 - Nooit Gebouwd Den Haag71 - Caroline de Gruyter en Habsburg57 - PG Kroeger over Alexis de Tocqueville11- Sybrand en Wiete Buma over Gerlacus Buma, Napoleon en koning Willem I08 - Paul Rem over The Queen en haar bijzondere band met de Oranjes***Tijdlijn00:00:00 – Deel 100:42:53 – Deel 201:31:46 – Einde Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

De technologische revolutie van kunstmatige intelligentie en het politieke en culturele debat daarover zijn volop losgebarsten. Kun je je ogen nog geloven, is wat je leest wel 'echt'? Is wat hiermee kan – en vooral: straks zal kunnen - een vloek of een zegen of allebei tegelijk? En is deze editie van Betrouwbare Bronnen zélf wel echt?Jaap Jansen en PG Kroeger kijken niet alleen naar wat nu al de discussie beheerst, maar wijzen op lessen die uit eerdere hocus-pocus verhalen, 'hoaxes', getrokken moeten worden. Zo gaat ook meer dan honderd jaar na dato het valse document van ‘een vergadering van joodse wereldleiders' nog altijd onverminderd rond. 'De Protocollen van de Wijzen van Sion' waren een product van de Ochrana, de geheime dienst van de Tsaar. Wat daarin beweerd wordt, duikt in allerlei varianten nog steeds op: bij de 'Reichsbürger' bij de ayatollahs en in verhalen over 'Soros' en over Wall Street en Hollywood.***Op sommige podcast-apps kun je niet alles lezen. De complete tekst vind je altijd hier***Ongekend was de ophef in april 1983 in Hamburg, nu precies 40 jaar geleden. Toonaangevend weekblad Stern onthulde dat het de persoonlijke dagboeken van Adolf Hitler had ontdekt: “Die Jahrhundertsensation!” Zestig verzegelde mappen gevuld met honderden pagina's handgeschreven, persoonlijke aantekeningen door de Führer waren uit zijn bunker in Berlijn gesmokkeld en bij een vliegtuigongeluk gered.Veel geleerden - ook Loe de Jong van het RIOD - waren diep onder de indruk. Grote mediabedrijven betaalden grote bedragen voor het recht om dit unieke document exclusief uit te geven. Stern pochte dat de geschiedenis van het Derde Rijk en dus van Duitsland en Europa herschreven moest worden.PG vertelt hoe hij al in de kiosk op het station verbluft keek naar de omslag van Stern. Die foto van dat dagboek kon toch niet kloppen? En zo kwamen uit allerlei kringen argwaan, bevreemding en kritische analyses los. Het avontuurlijke verhaal van de vondst van Hitlers complete dagboeken en nog meer persoonlijke documenten uit de Führerbunker bleef niettemin de media wereldwijd meeslepen.De inhoud van het dagboek was opvallend. Deels een saai soort agenda-opsomming, deels allerlei gedachten die de dictator in een ander, soms menselijker daglicht stelden. Alle reden dus om het diep en kritisch te analyseren. Zodra dat door Stern mogelijk werd gemaakt, vielen er harde klappen. De concurrenten in de media vieren feest en de net nieuwe regering van Helmut Kohl niet minder, om heel andere, meer politieke redenen.Het verhaal van journalist Gerd Heidemann, oplichter Konrad Kujau en de financiële malversaties rondom de dagboeken is adembenemend. Niets van de avontuurlijke achtergrondverhalen bleek waar. Eigenlijk was alles overgeschreven uit een bestaande publicatie die de dagelijkse werkzaamheden van Hitler en zijn staf en detail had geverifieerd. Stern had vele miljoenen gespendeerd - en onder meer Nieuwe Revu $125.000 afhandig gemaakt! - in een hoax, "eine plumpe Fälschung" in de harde woorden van de chef van het Bundesarchiv.Jaap en PG vertellen hoe het zo ver had kunnen komen, hoe een zo opvallende hoax zó kritiekloos benaderd werd en welke schimmige achtergronden daar later nog over naar boven kwamen.Nu met kunstmatige intelligentie nog veel verfijnder met documenten, beelden en film gewerkt kan worden, is het eens te meer nodig dat media en politiek zich hiervan rekenschap geven. Want zijn die nieuwe beelden van 9/11 of de Maanlanding wel echt? En dat filmpje van Poetin of die jas van de Paus? En de vraag waarom mensen blijkbaar zo graag bedrogen willen worden ligt hierbij steeds weer op tafel.***Deze aflevering is mede mogelijk gemaakt met donaties van luisteraars die we hiervoor hartelijk danken. Word ook vriend van de show!Heeft u belangstelling om in onze podcast te adverteren of ons te sponsoren? Dat zou helemaal mooi zijn! Stuur voor informatie een mailtje naar adverteren@dagennacht.nl***Verder lezenGefälschte "Hitler-Tagebücher" - So gefährlich war der Fake (NDR)***Verder kijkenZDF-Doku: Die Jahrhundertfälschung***Verder luisterenStern heeft een eigen podcastserie met fragmenten uit telefoongesprekken tussen Gerd Heidemann en Konrad KujauEerdere afleveringen van Betrouwbare Bronnen die hierbij interessant kunnen zijn322 - 30 januari 1933, een fatale dag voor Duitsland en de wereld314 - Prins Heinrich XIII en het verlangen naar een autoritair Duisland304 - Waarom Nederland een Wet op de politieke partijen nodig heeft en wat we hierbij kunnen leren van Duitsland295 - "Kaag. Sigrid Kaag." Spionnen in de politiek289 - Donald Trump als gevaar voor de democratie - Joe Biden en zijn strijd voor de ziel van Amerika286 - Extra zomeraflevering: PG tipt boeken! (Hitlers heldin, de zus van Nietzsche)253 - Poetins bizarre toespraak: hoe de president de geschiedenis van Oekraïne herschrijft251 - Nederlanders hebben groot vertrouwen in de democratie, veel minder in partijen239 - 2022: het jaar van Oranje, Wannsee en de opkomst in Europa van jonge, nieuwe leiders231 - Geschiedenis als politiek wapen210 - Kabinetsformatie 2021: Herman Tjeenk Willink over het verval van de democratische rechtsorde206 - 'Aardverschuiving': Michael Wolff over Donald Trumps laatste dagen als president. En: zijn bezoek aan Mar-a-Lago152 - De 19e-eeuwse wortels van Forum voor Democratie141 – Hans Vijlbrief: een nieuwe relatie overheid-burger in de strijd tegen het populisme105 - 75 jaar bevrijding: Dagelijks leven in Nazi-Duitsland75 - 2020: het jaar van grote kunstenaars, gruwelijke uitvindingen en bevrijding van tirannie65 - 'Vroeger was alles beter', PG Kroeger: nostalgie als strategie en politiek wapen53 - De viering van 40 jaar Deutsche Demokratische Republik23 - Ruth Peetoom en politicoloog Yascha Mounk over de kwetsbare democratie19 - Anne Applebaum: Poetin en de destabilisering van het Westen***Tijdlijn00:00:00 – Deel 100:43:20 – Deel 201:18:24 – Einde Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

#Hauptstadtinsider #Lutherhiersteheich #DNEWS24 #AngelaMerkel #Ordensverleihung #Absurdistan #Grundsteuer Alt-Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel bekommt von Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier ein rares Schmuckstück. Villenbesitzer in Wannsee bekommen es schriftlich: ihr Haus ist weniger wert als eine Wohnung in Neukölln. Der DNEWS24TVPodcast mit beißender Polemik.Hauptstadt-Insider Jan Peter Luther im DNEWSTV24-Podcast „Luther – hier stehe ich!“. DNEWS24 Hauptstadtinsider "Luther - hier stehe ich!" – überall, wo es gute Podcasts zu hören gibt. #Hauptstadtinsider

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In de geschiedenis van Duitsland en de wereld was 30 januari 1933 een fatale dag. Negentig jaar later beseffen we dat eens te meer. Jaap Jansen en PG Kroeger duiken daarom in aanloop, nasleep en mythen van de dag dat Adolf Hitler rijkskanselier werd.***Op sommige podcast-apps kun je niet alles lezen. De complete tekst vind je altijd hier***De leider van de NSDAP was door de president van de Duitse Republiek, Paul von Hindenburg, al twee keer eerder gevetood voor de post van kanselier. De oude generaal keek neer op deze Weense bohémien en wenste hem geen moment ernstig te nemen. PG wijst op de dubbele ironie van de benoeming van 30 januari: die kon er alleen komen doordat de NSDAP koos voor een 'legaliteits-tactiek' binnen de republikeinse democratie en dankzij een onverwachte nederlaag van deze partij.Zo zijn er meer opmerkelijke feiten en misverstanden over die weken, nu negentig jaar geleden. Van een door de nazi's zelf achteraf vooral gestileerde 'Machtergreifung' was helemaal geen sprake. Die kwam feitelijk pas maanden later. De NSDAP was zelfs in de weken kort voor Hitlers benoeming bijna uit elkaar gevallen. Ook gingen de coalitiepartners van Hitler en de coterie rond de oude president ervan uit dat men hem in enkele maanden politiek gekraakt zou hebben, ‘totdat hij piept'.Wat je ook zelden hoort, is dat Hitler de grondwet van de Weimarrepubliek net zo benutte als zijn voorgangers als kanselier dit deden. Allemaal keurig volgens de regels. Sterker nog, het Derde Rijk was de facto gegrondvest op de zeer democratische 'Verfassung' van Weimar uit 1919. Deze bleef formeel geldig tot het einde van het naziregime in 1945. Het regime hield ook 12 jaar lang de belangrijkste minister die men erfde uit de Weimar tijd op zijn post: die van Financiën. Zijn kleindochter is nu opnieuw een sleutelfiguur in de Duitse politiek en opnieuw op extreemrechts.Door de sterke focus in de geschiedschrijving en vele documentaires over de nazi's en hun Führer ziet men veelal de belangrijkste figuur in deze fase over het hoofd en ook diens zeer doordachte strategie. Dat was de hoogbejaarde generaal Paul von Hindenburg. Als rijkspresident hield hij alle touwtjes in handen, want de opeenvolgende kabinetten hadden steeds geen parlementaire meerderheid, ook dat van Hitler niet. Zijn zoon Oskar, enkele reactionaire adellijke lieden en militairen in zijn milieu werden door hem ingezet achter de schermen en probeerden hem te manipuleren.Een opmerkelijk aspect in dit verhaal is de rol van de 'Reichswehr', het leger van de republiek. Dit was vooral loyaal aan Hindenburg en wachtte eigenlijk diens sein af om via een coup de macht te grijpen. Het verhaal van de hoogste generaal Kurt von Hammerstein en zijn hippe dochter is daarbij wel heel avontuurlijk. Hoe kwam Stalin alles te weten wat er in het diepste geheim gebeurde?De paniek rond een vermeende communistische opstand na de brandaanslag op de Reichstag van eind februari gaf Hitler de middelen om zijn tegenstanders van centrumlinks en centrumrechts te intimideren en politiek uit te schakelen. De rol van de latere staatsman van de Bondsrepubliek, Konrad Adenauer, is daarbij opmerkelijk. Ook hier weer ironie: zijn politieke lef en nederlaag in 1933 maakten hem jaren later tot het icoon van een nieuw, vrij en democratisch Duitsland.Een bijzondere rol speelde in die dagen de fractieleider van de SPD, Otto Wels. Hij hield in het laatste vrije debat in de rijksdag de redevoering van zijn leven. Die ging als eerste en laatste saluut aan de vervolgden en als bewijs van moed de geschiedenis in. "Vrijheid en leven kunt u ons ontnemen, onze eer niet!"Januari 1933 heeft ons veel te leren, ook negentig jaar later. President Richard von Weizsäcker zei het later zo: "De Duitse democratie ging niet ten onder doordat er te veel extremisten waren, maar te weinig democraten."***Deze aflevering is mede mogelijk gemaakt met donaties van luisteraars die we hiervoor hartelijk danken. Word ook vriend van de show!Heeft u belangstelling om in onze podcast te adverteren of ons te sponsoren? Dat zou helemaal mooi zijn! Stuur voor informatie een mailtje naar adverteren@dagennacht.nl***Verder lezenPatrick Dassen - De Weimarrepubliek Volker Ullrich - Adolf Hitler, opkomst en ondergangWolfram Pyta - Hindenburg, Herrschaft zwischen Hohenzollern und HitlerWolfram Pyta - Hitler, der Künstler als Politiker und Feldherr. Eine HerrschaftsanalyseHans Magnus Enzensberger - De eigenzinnigheid van Hammerstein ***Verder luisteren314 - Prins Heinrich XIII en het verlangen naar een autoritair Duisland286 - Extra zomeraflevering: PG tipt boeken! (Hitlers heldin, de zus van Nietzsche)248 - Oekraïne en de eeuwenoude vriendschap tussen Duitsland en Rusland239 - 2022: het jaar van Oranje, Wannsee en de opkomst in Europa van jonge, nieuwe leiders208 - Max Weber: wetenschap als beroep en politiek als beroep152 - De 19e-eeuwse wortels van Forum voor Democratie135 - 30 jaar Duitse eenheid: Carlo Trojan, de Nederlander die meeonderhandelde113 - De Jaren '20 als wenkend perspectief105 - 75 jaar bevrijding: Dagelijks leven in Nazi-DuitslandAfl. 101- 75 jaar bevrijding: De laatste dagen van Franklin D. RooseveltAfl. 65 - 'Vroeger was alles beter', nostalgie als strategie en politiek wapen (de rede van Richard von Weiszäcker)BB 53 - De viering van 40 jaar Deutsche Demokratische Republik47 - Adenauer, de 1e KanzlerBB 42 – Merkels vertrouweling Elmar Brok: 40 jaar Europese geschiedenis***Tijdlijn00:00:00 – Deel 100:50:02 – Deel 201:29:37 – Einde Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

En biografaktuel tysk film om Wannsee-konferencen i januar 1942 viser, hvordan 15 fremtrædende nazister brugte knap to timer - inklusiv frokost - på at nå frem til 'den endelige løsning af jødespørgsmålet'. Bevæbnet med notesblokke, plancher, kuglepenne og bureaukratiske begreber vedtog de, hvordan 11 millioner europæiske jøder skulle gå deres snarlige undergang i møde. Hvordan skildres Wannsee-konferencen i filmen? Og hvilken betydning fik virkelighedens konference for udførslen af Holocaust? Det er nogle af spørgsmålene i denne uges Kampen om historien, hvor Adam Holm taler med lektor i tyske studier Moritz Schramm og lektor i tysk samtidshistorie Therkel Stræde. Musik: Adi Zukanovic.

In der aktuellen Ladylike Podcast-Folge träumen sich Yvonne und Nicole nicht an Urlaubsorte, wo sie 2023 gern hinfahren würden, sondern fabulieren darüber, wo sie in diesem neuen Jahr 2023 gern Sex hätten! Erlaubt ist alles, von der großen weiten Welt bis hin zum eigenen Gartenhäuschen. Nicole fällt gleich etwas Großartiges ein, sie war letztes Jahr zum ersten Mal in ihrem Leben auf der Insel Rügen! Dort hat sie wunderschön gewohnt in Binz und hat dort etwas sehr Romantisches entdeckt, nämlich Strandkörbe, in denen man übernachten kann. Die kann man buchen, sogar mit Champagner. Dorthin würde sie gern mit ihrem Mann zurückkommen… Yvonne hat auch einen Traum: Sie würde gern 2023 die Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg buchen und auf einem Flügel vögeln (like Pretty Woman!) und die tolle Akustik für ihr Stöhnen nutzen. Ein unerschwinglicher Wunschtraum…Nicole kann sich an ein superschickes Hotel in Wien mit bodentiefen Fenstern erinnern, sogar die Dusche im Badezimmer hatte diese Fenster. Man konnte hoch oben über die ganze Stadt Wien schauen und über den Dächern der Stadt vögeln. Yvonne träumt sich nach Island, wo viele Feen und Trolle leben, und sitzt dort in einer heißen Quelle und dort treibt sie es mit ihrer Freundin. Nicole war tatsächlich auf den Azoren mal in einer heißen Quelle, die war stark eisenhaltig und man saß in einer bräunliche Brühe, in der man nicht sehen konnte, was auf dem Boden war, aber im Prinzip findet Nicole heiße Quellen auch erotisch. Nicoles nächster Wunsch ist ganz bodenständig, denn sie hat zu Hause eine neue Sauna. Die Sauna wird gern und oft genutzt, aber drin getrieben hat sie es noch nicht, auch etwas Erotisches, das man sich dieses Jahr mal vornehmen könnte. Yvonne denkt auch regional und träumt vom Tiergarten als erotischem Wunschort, natürlich nicht vor jedermann nach einer Großveranstaltung, sondern Yvonne hat eine romantische Vorstellung von einem intimen, nicht einsehbaren Ort, alternativ wäre ein Tretboot auf dem Wannsee als Sexort vorstellbar. Hört einfach rein in die neue Folge, in der Yvonne erzählt, was auf Mallorca an einer Felskante alles passieren könnte...Habt Ihr selbst erotische Erfahrungen, eine Frage oder Story, über die Yvonne & Nicole im Ladylike-Podcast sprechen sollen? Dann schreibt uns gern an @ladylike.show auf Instagram oder kontaktiert uns über unsere Internetseite ladylike.showHört in die Folgen bei AUDIO NOW, iTunes oder Spotify rein und schreibt uns gerne eine Bewertung. Außerdem könnt ihr unseren Podcast unterstützen, indem ihr die neuen Folgen auf Euren Kanälen pusht und Euren Freunden davon erzählt.Ungewöhnliche Sex-Orte sind auch ein Thema im neuen Buch von Yvonne & Nicole „Da kann ja jede kommen“. Darin die lustigsten, erotischsten und außergewöhnlichen Geschichten aus der Ladylike-Community. Hier geht's zum Buch: bit.ly/ladylike-buch Viel Spaß!Wir verwandeln auch Event-Locations in Eurer Nähe in Sex-Orte. Zumindest kommt es zu verbalem Sex! Yvonne und Nicole kommen auch in Deine Nähe mit DER Multimedia-Show rund ums Thema Liebe und Sex. Die große Deutschland-Tour zum Erfolgs-Podcast „Ladylike“ mit Yvonne und Nicole. Super ehrlich. Super authentisch. Super lustig: Ladylike. Die Live-Show über Sex, Liebe und Erotik 2023. Die Tickets gibt es ab sofort hier zu kaufen: www.eventim.de/artist/ladylike-die-podcast-showUnsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://art19.com/privacy. Die Datenschutzrichtlinien für Kalifornien sind unter https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info abrufbar.

SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich called the meeting in the Berlin suburb, in which he outlined the deportation of European Jews to extermination camps in Poland where they would be systematically ...

Jaap en PG wensen de luisteraars van Betrouwbare Bronnen alle goeds en veel inspiratie en geluk in het nieuwe jaar. Om hier meteen een kleine bijdrage aan te geven duikt de eerste aflevering van 2023 in dát verleden dat nu juist dit jaar van bijzondere betekenis zal zijn. Voor de vijfde maal sinds de start van Betrouwbare Bronnen kijken we naar momenten en mensen die in het nu aangebroken jaar herdacht en herinnerd zullen worden.2023 is het jaar waarin zowel twee van de grootste, meest charismatische en boeiendste veroveraars in de wereldgeschiedenis herdacht worden, als een van de ergste trauma's in de Europese historie en de échte start van wat wij nu 'Amerika' noemen. Jaap en PG behandelen de volgende mensen en momenten die nu al hun stempel op dit jaar zetten.***Op sommige podcast-apps kun je niet alles lezen. De complete tekst vind je altijd hier*** · 1948 – 75 jaar Koude OorlogIn 1948 werd duidelijk dat de heerser in het Kremlin bereid was tot gewelddadige ingrepen om zijn macht te vergroten. Met de coup in Praag tegen de Tsjechische democratie en de 'Blokkade van Berlijn' begon de Koude Oorlog tussen Oost en West. De zeer doordachte psychologische tegenzet vanuit Washington DC van dat moment is een beetje vergeten.· 1953 - 70 jaar Stalins dood en de opstand van 17 juniDe ‘vozhd' sterft midden in een furieuze zuivering en campagne tegen 'kosmopolieten'. Het politburo executeert zijn voorziene opvolger en probeert een collectief bewind. De mensen in de DDR vatten moed en hopen op minder repressie en armoede. Het omgekeerde is hun lot. Hun massale opstand wordt in bloed gesmoord.· 1523 - Baboer verovert india'Tijger' was zijn bijnaam in het Perzisch. Deze afstammeling van Dzjengis Khan en Timoer Lenk had het bouwen van een imperium in zijn DNA zitten. Baboer grondvestte het reusachtige rijk van de Mogol vorsten, Juist nu in deze nieuwe 'eeuw van India' een grote inspiratiebron. Daarbij was hij zó literair begaafd, dat zijn liederen en ballades ook nu nog gezongen worden!· 1923 - 100 jaar 'De Grote Inflatie'164 miljard Reichsmark waren in november nog maar 16,4 pfennig waard. Heel de economie en het financiële stelsel van Duitsland stortte in. Burgers raakten al hun spaargeld kwijt en hun inkomen was niets meer waard. Frankrijk en België grepen met militaire machtsmiddelen in om herstelbetalingen uit te persen. Het is nog steeds een Duits trauma. De Weimar-republiek leek reddeloos verloren. Tot de Mario Draghi van zijn tijd opdook, Charles Dawes.· 1963-1973 - 60 jaar omwenteling in Den HaagDe Tweede-Kamerverkiezingen van 1963 vertoonden een gebruikelijk, klassiek beeld. Nederland leek tevreden en optimistisch. Maar wie beter keek, zag de eerste haarscheurtjes. In de tien jaar die volgden brak een politieke revolutie uit: versplintering, nieuwe partijen, polarisatie. En toen, vijftig jaar geleden, trad Joop den Uyl aan als premier.· 1773 - 250 jaar USANiet de ‘Declaration of Independence' begon de rebellie van de Britse kolonisten tegen het bewind vanuit Londen. Dat deed een groepje ludieke actievoerders in de haven van Boston, eind 1773. Hun Tea Party ging om zeer principiële vragen van democratie en soevereiniteit.· 323 voor Christus - Alexander de Grote sterftNa een feestelijk drinkgelag in Babylon stierf de jonge veroveraar en visionair heerser. Zijn erfenis is geopolitiek, cultureel en historisch over grote delen van de wereld verspreid. Zijn graf lijkt verdwenen, of ligt hij inmiddels opgebaard op een wel heel uitzonderlijke en onverwachte plek?***Deze aflevering is mede mogelijk gemaakt met donaties van luisteraars die we hiervoor hartelijk danken. Word ook vriend van de show! In deze aflevering worden prijswinnaars bekend gemaakt: acht vrienden die het door hun gewenste boek kado krijgen!Heeft u belangstelling om in onze podcast te adverteren of ons te sponsoren? Dat zou helemaal mooi zijn! Stuur voor informatie een mailtje naar adverteren@dagennacht.nl***Verder luisteren316 - Geheelonthouders en andere epische drinkers in de politiek315 - Vrouw, leven, vrijheid: oorzaken en achtergronden van het straatprotest in Iran. En: de rijke Perzische cultuur314 - Prins Heinrich XIII en het verlangen naar een autoritair Duisland298 - De Cubacrisis, dertien dagen die de wereld schokten. En: de angst voor nucleaire catastrofe nu262 - Waarom India - ook voor Nederland - steeds belangrijker wordt239 - 2022: het jaar van Oranje, Wannsee en de opkomst in Europa van jonge, nieuwe leiders157 - 2021: het jaar van bijzondere verkiezingen, een partijcoup en een opmerkelijke dame van adel113 - De Jaren '20 als wenkend perspectief75 - 2020: het jaar van grote kunstenaars, gruwelijke uitvindingen en bevrijding van tirannie18 - Pieter Omtzigt strijdt tegen corruptie in de Raad van Europa ** PG blikt vooruit op herdenkingsjaar 201913 - Minister Sigrid Kaag over hulp, handel en haar toekomst in D66 * PG Kroeger over liberalen, volkscultuur en Stalin***Tijdlijn00:00:00 – Deel 100:49:25 – Deel 201:35:50 – EindeZie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tanja Valérien spricht mit der Schauspielerin, Autorin und psychologischen Beraterin MICHAELA WIEBUSCH, Jahrgang 1969, in ihrem Zuhause in Berlin am Wannsee über ihren Bestseller „Im Dorf der Schmetterlinge.Vom Aufbruch in mein bestes Leben" , ihre frühere Tätigkeit als Krankengymnastin in einer Rehabilitationsklinik, warum sie diese aufgab und Schauspielerin wurde, das Schweigen in der Familie über Gefühle und Schmerz, Selbstaufgabe, Helfen, die Frage, wann man sterben lassen sollte, Trauma, Familienkonflikte,Geheimnisse der verlornen Kriegsgeneration Verzeihen, ihren großen Erfolg als Sängerin, Schauspielerin und Autorin auf der Theatertournee „Es lebe Alexandra“, durch den sie sogar beim "Grand Prix Eurovision des la Chanson" auftreten sollte, dies aber ablehnte, Symbiose, Lebensfragen, Spiritualität, die Suche, das Leben zu begreifen, Verhärtung, Selbstaufgabe, Egoismus, Männer, Liebe, die Erziehung ihres Sohnes,Vergangenheit, ihren Mann, der keine Angst vor ihrer Wahrhaftigkeit hat und wie man Krise als Chance nutzen kann.

Was könnten Lea-Sophie Cramer und Verena Pausder besser, als auf ihre eigenen Defizite und Zweifel mit Humor und Stärke zu reagieren? Spoiler: Das Plädoyer dieser ersten Folge der dritten Staffel Fast & Curious (Ja, wir wissen, dass ihr wisst, welcher Podcast das hier ist) lautet: Überschätzt euch mehr und springt aus der comfort zone hinein in die courage zone! Denn wer will euch beweisen, dass ihr etwas nicht könnt? Lea und Verena sprechen darüber, warum wir Versagensangst haben, wie sie mit Selbstzweifeln umgehen und was uns allen das starke Mindset von King Richard lehren kann. Warum sollten vor allem humorlose Führungskräfte, sich mehr trauen, über sich selbst und über die Welt zu lachen? Wie gibt man Feedback und wie macht man seinen Mitarbeiter:innen klar, dass sie Deo benutzen sollten? Bevor Lea sich am Freitag mit anderen Unternehmer:innen auf dem Wannsee einen Segeltörn gönnt und Verena aufgrund des Familienfirmenjubiläums einfach mal eine Woche durchfeiert, erfahrt ihr, wieso Lea die Leute im Assessment-Center für betrunken hielt und bei welchem Event Verena sich bis kurz vor ihrem Auftritt fragte, ob sie sie denn noch alle hat. 00:01:01 Im Catch Up sprechen die beiden darüber, womit sie sich gerade beruflich beschäftigen und was in den nächten Wochen so bei ihnen ansteht. 00:10:38 Im “Deep Dive” geht es heute um das spannende Thema Selbstüberschätzung versus Selbstzweifel. 00:38:18 Bei “Was nervt” spricht Lea über humorlose Führungskräfte. 00:42:40 Bei “Meine Frage an” beantworten Lea und Verena die Frage, wie richtige Feedbackkultur funktioniert und welche Tipps sie diesbezüglich haben. Verenas Events im September: Ada Lovelace Festival Berlin (https://www.ada-lovelace-festival.com/) #wirfürschule Teachers on Stage (https://wirfuerschule.de/zukunftswoche-2022/teachers-on-stage/) Bits & Pretzels (https://www.bitsandpretzels.com/) Artikelempfehlung: Harvard Business Review “How to be funny at work” (https://hbr.org/2021/02/how-to-be-funny-at-work)

Die letzten Jahre seines Lebens verbringt der Maler Max Liebermann in seinem Gartenhaus in Wannsee. Ein Rückzug aufgrund der Machtergreifung der Nationalsozialisten. Sein Spätwerk besteht aus der Vegetation und Schönheit seines Gartens, während das Leben der Familie unter dem NS Regime immer bedrohlicher wird. Zum 175. Geburtstag Max Liebermanns. Mit Veronika Bachfischer, Martina Gedeck u.a.// Text: Ruth Johanna Bennrath// Musik und Regie: Ulrike Haage// Produktion rbb/DLF 2022

Der Sommer ist da, in Berlin scheint endlich mal die Sonne, es wird heiß zwischen Häuserfassaden, geteerten Straßen und rissig gestalteten Kopfsteinpflasterbürgersteigen. Wohin also zur Abkühlung? Zum überlaufenen Wannsee? Nach Brandenburg? Die DAZ vom 23. Juni 1922 hat da einen Geheimtipp auf Lager: Das Freibad in der Zitadelle Spandau. In der sehr gut erhalten Festungsanlage aus der Renaissance, war 1922 tatsächlich eine Badeanlage der dort stationierten Militäreinheit, die diese aber für das Publikum öffnete. Der Autor, der über seinen Besuch dort berichtet hat nicht nur Augen für Architektur und Landschaft, sondern auch für die Badestelle für Damen auf der anderen Seite des Kanals, bei deren Betrachtung er eine leider zeittypisch etwas sexistische Haltung offenbart. Paula Leu liest für uns dieses Zeitdokument zu den Schwimmstellen in der Zitadelle.

La Conferencia de Wannsee del 20 de Enero de 1942, duró una hora y media y se estableció la estructura de la llamada "solución final de la cuestión judía". Conspiracy es una dramatización de esta conferencia, que no necesita grandes golpes de efecto para ponernos los pelos de punta. Como siempre, primero la parte cinéfila con 📽️ Imanol López , y en la segunda parte la histórica con👨‍🚀 Dani CArAn. Además, a 📽️ Imanol lo encontrarás en el blog Todo sobre mi Cine Bélico https://todosobremicinebelico.blogspot.com/ Mi Cine Bélico es un programa mensual de Casus Belli. Produce 🛠️ PodFactory http://podfactory.es Casus Belli Podcast pertenece a 🏭 Factoría Casus Belli. Casus Belli Podcast forma parte de 📀 Ivoox Originals. 👉https://podcastcasusbelli.com 👉En Facebook, nuestra página es @casusbellipodcast https://www.facebook.com/CasusBelliPodcast 👉En Instagram estamos como @casusbellipodcast https://www.instagram.com/casusbellipodcast 👉En Twitter estamos como @casusbellipod @CasusBelliPod 👉Telegram, nuestro canal es @casusbellipodcast https://t.me/casusbellipodcast 👨‍💻Nuestro chat del canal es https://t.me/aviones10 ⚛️ El logotipo de Carros 10 y de la Factoría Casus Belli están diseñados por Publicidad Fabián publicidadfabian@yahoo.es 🎵 La música incluida en el programa es Ready for the war de Marc Corominas Pujadó bajo licencia CC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ El resto de música es bajo licencia privada de Epidemic Music, Jamendo Music o SGAE. de Ivoox. 📧¿Queréis contarnos algo? También puedes escribirnos a casus.belli.pod@gmail.com Si te ha gustado, y crees que nos lo merecemos, nos sirve mucho que nos des un like, ya que nos da mucha visibilidad. Muchas gracias por escucharnos, y hasta la próxima. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Il 20 gennaio 1942, in una villa signorile di Berlino affacciata sulle rive del Wannsee si svolse una riunione segreta, entrata nei libri di Storia come la "Conferenza di Wannsee".Oggi quell'evento non viene più considerato come l'inizio della cosiddetta “soluzione finale della questione ebraica”, tuttavia ci consegnò un documento ufficiale cruciale: il verbale che lo certifica come tappa fondamentale verso le deportazioni di massa, il lavoro forzato, lo sterminio.A 80 anni di distanza, con l'aiuto di storici e divulgatori, in un “Laser” in due puntate Flavia Foradini ripercorre i fatti che portarono a quella riunione, sonda ciò che i quindici funzionari nazisti si dissero in un tempo di soli 90 minuti, e approfondisce le conseguenze dirette che scaturirono da quell'incontro.Un percorso dentro l'apparato burocratico che attuò la Shoah, ma anche dentro a istituzioni come la Casa-Museo della Conferenza di Wannsee, che contribuiscono alla cultura della memoria e contrastano antisemitismo e negazionismo.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Less Wrong Community Weekend 2022, open for application!, published by UnplannedCauliflower on May 1, 2022 on LessWrong. Less Wrong Community Weekend 2022, open for application! When: Friday 26th August - Monday 29th August 2022 Where: jh-wannsee.de (Berlin) The tickets: Regular ticket: 150€ Supporter ticket: 200/300/400€ Angel ticket: 75€ This year's awesome keynote speaker will be Duncan Sabien whose talk is: “The moments that matter”. Duncan is the former director of curriculum at CFAR, the primary preparer of the CFAR handbook, and a regular producer of consistently interesting and thought provoking essays such as In Defense of Punch Bug, and Lies, Damn Lies, and Fabricated Options. From Friday August 26th through Monday August 29th aspiring rationalists from all around Europe and beyond will gather for four days at the lovely Lake Wannsee near Berlin to socialize, run workshops, talk, and enjoy our shared forms of nerdiness. What the event is like: On Friday afternoon we put up four wall-sized daily planners and by Saturday morning the attendees fill them up with 50+ workshops, talks and activities of their own devising such as Icebreaker games, Rationality techniques, EA community building discussions, Comfort zone exploration workshop, Polyamory and relationships workshops, morning meditation sessions in the Winter garden and many more. This is our 7th year and we feel that the atmosphere and sense of community at these weekends is something that is really special. If that sounds like something you would enjoy and you have some exciting ideas and skills to contribute come along and get involved. And of course if you want to spend some time relaxing and recharging on your own you can hike in the forests, sunbathe or stroll lazily along the banks of Lake Wannsee whenever you like. The venue for the event, Wannsee youth hostel, is nestled amongst the beautiful lakes and forests of South West Berlin and provides shared accommodation, a canteen, a selection of large and small seminar rooms and plenty of comfortable spaces inside and out for us to use as we please. Application Process: There are usually about 20% more people who would like to come than we have spots for, so priority will be given to those who seem particularly interested, or who plan to make interesting contributions by running a talk, workshop or activity. However, everyone is welcome to apply. So apply now and tell us about why it would be awesome to have you as part of the group! The primary ticket will be 150 euros, but if you want to be an unusually and exceptionally cool person, we also have supporter tickets that allow us to help people who need financial help, and improve this and future community events. Also we are hoping that some of you volunteer to be an ‘on-site angel' for a half priced ticket who will help us set everything up, keep things clear, prepare to make sure the snacks table is kept filled, and similar tasks. They will only be expected to work either before, after or during the event while joining sessions is still often feasible. If this sounds interesting to you, send us an email (lwcw.europe@gmail.com) and we'll schedule a call to talk with you. We do have funds to help people who would struggle to afford the ticket. If you need help, choose a regular ticket when applying and send us an email explaining your situation after your application has been accepted. Also tell your friends about this event if you think they will be interested! When: Friday 26th August - Monday 29th August 2022 Where: jh-wannsee.de The tickets: Regular ticket: 150€ Supporter ticket: 200/300/400€ Angel ticket: 75€ http://tiny.cc/lwcw22_apply If you have any questions, please email us at lwcw.europe@gmail.com. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please vi...

Einem Mord folgt eine spektakuläre Flucht über die Dächer Berlins, wie sie das Kaiserreich noch nicht gesehen hat. Die Tatsache, dass der Mann den Kriminalbeamten direkt vor der Tür zum Polizeirevier weggelaufen war, sorgt für Heiterkeit und Aufregung. Die Leute meinen, „für so'n kleines Mördchen ist Berlin das rechte Örtchen." Echoes of Time v2 by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3698-echoes-of-time-v2 License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Affencurrywurst im Himalaya-Haus! Was mit zweifelhafter Kulinarik anfängt, entwickelt sich schnell zur Phobien-Analyse. Sessel werden vor Hotelzimmer-Türen geschoben und beim Baden im Wannsee nach Haien geschaut. Ist das noch rational und gibt es da etwas von Ratiopharm? Berechtigte Ängste und totale Paranoia werden hier und heute gegeneinander abgewogen und ein deutliches Ergebnis gefunden: Torte hilft immer!

Affencurrywurst im Himalaya-Haus! Was mit zweifelhafter Kulinarik anfängt, entwickelt sich schnell zur Phobien-Analyse. Sessel werden vor Hotelzimmer-Türen geschoben und beim Baden im Wannsee nach Haien geschaut. Ist das noch rational und gibt es da etwas von Ratiopharm? Berechtigte Ängste und totale Paranoia werden hier und heute gegeneinander abgewogen und ein deutliches Ergebnis gefunden: Torte hilft immer!

Hace 80 años, el 20 de enero de 1942, tuvo lugar una reunión en una villa a las orillas del lago Wannsee en las afueras de Berlín con un único punto de orden de día: la llamada "la solución final del problema judío". En realidad se trataba de reglamentar y coordinar la deportación y el asesinato sistemático de los judíos en los países ocupados. Aunque de facto, estas deportaciones ya se estaban llevando a cabo y las ejecuciones masivas por las "Einsatzgruppen" también venían dándose desde junio de 1941, con el avance las tropas alemanas hacia el Este. La reunión en la que participaron unos pocos altos cargos de la SS, del partido NSDAP y de distintos ministerios del Reich, duró 90 minutos. En esta actividad analizamos en qué medida esa hora y media resultó trascendental para el destino del pueblo judío. La conferencia corre a cargo de la especialista Paula Santana.

Zvi Szlamowicz nació en Bruselas el 21 de junio de 1942 cuando Bélgica estaba bajo la ocupación nazista y la vida normal de los judíos se hacía cada vez más difícil. Su familia fue una de las tantas que tuvieron que llevar la estrella de David sobre la ropa cuando salían a la calle. Tampoco se les permitía frecuentar lugares públicos o comprar en horas no especiales. Tras la conferencia de Wannsee había rumores sobre la deportación de los judíos y su posterior traslado a campos de concentración. Sus padres, asustados por lo que le esperaría a sus hijos decidieron entregarlo con tan solo cinco meses a la familia De Meulemeester, que colaboraba con la resistencia y con la que el sacerdote de la Iglesia de su barrio mantenía contacto. A pesar de que sus padres y familia se escondían en casa durante días para que los nazis no los descubriesen, su madre y su tía fueron arrestadas y finalmente llevadas al campo de exterminio Auschwitz-Birkenau, donde fueron asesinadas al poco tiempo de su llegada en las cámaras de gas. Mientras, su hermana se refugió en un convento y su padre se ocultó hasta 1944 cuando fue enviado a prisión y posteriormente liberado. Con el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, hija y padre fueron en busca de Zvi entre las ruinas de una Europa devastada. La larga espera tuvo su recompensa y ambos localizaron a Zvi, que ya tenía tres años de edad. Tras un tiempo se fueron a vivir a Bolivia y posteriormente a Brasil, desde donde el propio Zvi intercambió cartas con la familia adoptiva que le salvó del Holocausto. Y aunque se trasladó a vivir a Israel con su esposa y sus tres hijos, siempre fue a visitar a esa familia que permitió que su origen judío quedase oculto ante los nazis. Tanto el sacerdote como la familia que le acogió y escondió fueron nombrados Justos entre las Naciones. Este es un resumen del testimonio que Zvi ofreció en la Fundación Telefónica.

In early 1942, several high-ranking Nazi officials convened in a lavish villa outside Berlin for what would later be known as the Wannsee Conference. For years after the war, conventional wisdom was that in this infamous conference the Final Solution was decided upon. Today we know that mass murder of Jews began well before the conference. Given this, what makes the Wannsee conference such an important landmark in the history of the Holocaust? Today on "On the Holocaust" we'll talk about the decisions at the conference, about the “desk murderers” and about one crucial document that was uncovered by chance. Featured guest: Christoph Kreutzmueller, curator at the Jewish Museum Berlin. Co-editor of The Participants: The Men of the Wannsee Conference.

In early 1942, several high-ranking Nazi officials convened in a lavish villa outside Berlin for what would later be known as the Wannsee Conference. For years after the war, conventional wisdom was that in this infamous conference the Final Solution was decided upon. Today we know that mass murder of Jews began well before the conference. Given this, what makes the Wannsee conference such an important landmark in the history of the Holocaust? Today on "On the Holocaust" we'll talk about the decisions at the conference, about the “desk murderers” and about one crucial document that was uncovered by chance. Featured guest: Christoph Kreutzmueller, curator at the Jewish Museum Berlin. Co-editor of The Participants: The Men of the Wannsee Conference.

80 yrs ago the Nazis planned the Final Solution at the Wannsee Conference (English)

Racconto di Federico BettuzziGennaio 1942 in una villa sulla riva del lago Großer Wannsee nella periferia a sud di Berlino. Quindici personaggi di spicco del regime nazionalsocialista, del partito e delle Schutzstaffel (tra cui quattro segretari di Stato, due funzionari pubblici di grado equivalente e un sottosegretario) , su invito dell'SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, capo del Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Rsha), si riunirono per definire la cosiddetta «soluzione finale della questione ebraica»  e chiarire direttamente con i dirigenti delle strutture amministrative di potere del Terzo Reich potenzialmente concorrenti che l'intera operazione era, a partire dalle direttive ricevute fin dal luglio 1941 da Hermann Göring, competenza delle SS sotto l'autorità suprema di Heinrich Himmler e dello stesso Heydrich.Guarda Il Video Su Youtube: https://youtu.be/eY9pRpiSWkcIl Blog di Federico Bettuzzi: https://raccontidistoria.blogspot.com/Sostieni Noir Italiano su Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/noiritalianoDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/racconti-di-storia-podcast--5561307/support.

Allan M. Brandt is a professor of the history of science at Harvard and author of The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America. He discusses the tobacco industry's 20th-century campaign to make its addictive and deadly product somehow acceptable — and its 21st-century campaign to do it all again.* FULL TRANSCRIPT *GARFIELD: Welcome to Bully Pulpit. That was Teddy Roosevelt, I'm Bob Garfield with Episode 6: Crime of the Century.OLCZAK: The prime cause of harm generated by the smoking is an outcome of the combustion. Okay? When you burn the cigarette, when you burn the tobacco you release the thousands of the chemicals. Many of those chemicals, they are very bad for the human body. If you eliminate the combustion, you actually can achieve a very, very significant reduction in exposure to the toxicants.GARFIELD: In our last episode, we heard from Philip Morris International CEO Jacek Olczak as he boasted about Philip Morris's plan to convert half of its business to non-combustible tobacco products by the year 2025 — a strategy that impresses Wall Street and part of the public-health community, but to others is merely reminiscent of a century of Big Tobacco manipulation, cynicism and fatal lies. In that story we heard briefly from Allan Brandt, professor of the history of science at Harvard and author of The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America. This week, we return to the professor and the subject of the Cigarette Century, so deadly and corrupt.Allan, welcome to Bully Pulpit.BRANDT: Thanks so much for having me.GARFIELD: The tobacco industry has a long and dark history, going back at least to the early 50s when the evidence of smoking's dangers became an existential threat to cigarette sales. Can you tell me what the research was at that turning point?BRANDT: There'd been a lot of research going all the way back to the middle of the 19th century about the possible harms of smoking, but there wasn't fully substantiated knowledge, I would argue, til right around 1950. But then things changed quickly and radically because a group of early epidemiologists, both in England and the United States, began to study smokers and what happened to their health, and they began to study lung cancer patients and what their smoking behaviors had been. And they came up with incredibly robust and important findings that were published around 1950, '52 and three, more studies by 1954. And all of them reached one absolute conclusion, which was that smoking was actually a cause of lung cancer and likely other diseases that would be studied subsequently, especially heart disease, stroke and other cancers.GARFIELD: So of course, the industry said, oh my God, this is terrible news. We can see that we're merchants of death and we will henceforth get out of the cigarette business and into selling wintergreen candy. Right?BRANDT: That's not exactly what happened. Here you have a multi-million dollar industry confronted by scientific evidence that their product causes disease and death. And so the tobacco executives started to put their heads together and figure out, how do we respond to this? Do we say the science is bad? Do we just disregard it? Do we try to incriminate the scientist who produced this? And eventually what happens is that in December, 1953, the six major CEOs of the big tobacco companies get together at the Plaza Hotel in New York to consider the way forward because they knew that they were in a massive crisis in terms of their industry. And they called in probably the nation's most powerful and influential public relations executive, John Hill, to consult with them. And he listened to them for a while. And then he said, I don't think you understand how to do this. What you need to do is create uncertainty. Don't deny that these studies have appeared. Just say there's much more we need to learn. We need more science. And in a sense, one of the things that Hill told them is if you don't like the science that's coming out, begin to develop your own science. Find skeptics, find marginal scientific and medical people, give them grants and have them produce science that will serve the interest of your industry. What the tobacco industry really introduced in the early to mid 50s was the idea: How can we confuse science? How can we obscure what's coming out? How can we make people say, you know, there's a debate, we just don't know? A lot of physicians and scientists were coming out, 1952, 1953, saying we need to regulate cigarettes, we need to tell our patients to quit. A lot of doctors did quit and by the early 1960s, the industry's campaign — based on Hill's principles — really led to people saying we just don't have enough evidence yet.GARFIELD: Now, as you mentioned, 70 years ago the research showed the correlation between cigarette smoking and cancer based on health outcomes and behaviors for large study populations. But it wasn't laboratory science on a cellular level. So this opens some space for creating doubt, circumstantial evidence, blah, blah, blah. You have identified the industry's three pronged strategy.BRANDT: Yes. The three points were essentially that the evidence of the harms of smoking were inconclusive, that cancers had many causes and what we would really need is much more intensive research to resolve a publicly important question and that no one was more committed to the idea of learning more, investigating more completely and resolving this question. And then, of course, if we ever do find anything in cigarettes that might be harmful, we will take the lead in fixing our product and assuring the health of the public.GARFIELD: Yeah, like this Chesterfield commercial from the late fifties. The interviewer was a familiar face to the audience of the day: George Fenneman.GEORGE: As you watch, an electronic miracle is taking place as a stream of electrons creates this television picture. Here tonight is another electronic miracle, destined to affect your lives even more than television. This new electronic miracle, AccuRay, means that everything from auto tires to ice cream, battleship steel to cigarettes, can be made better and safer for you. Now meet Mr. Bert Chope, brilliant young president of Industrial Nucleonics. Well Bert, exactly what is AccuRay?CHOPE: Well, George, it is a device by which a stream of electrons passes through and analyzes the product while it is actually being made. They transferred what they see to this electronic brain, which adjusts the production machinery for errors down to millionths of an inch.GEORGE: Well, I always ask the question so many people ask me. How does AccuRay make Chesterfield a better cigarette than was ever possible before?CHOPE: Every cigarette made with AccuRay control contains a more precise measure of perfectly packed tobaccos, so Chesterfield smokes smoother, without hotspots or a hard draw.GEORGE: That's why Chesterfield tastes better and is best for you. Bert, what's your cigarette?CHOPE: You see, I know what AccuRay can do.GARFIELD: “Better for you,” like Kent's micronite filter and Marlboro Lights were supposedly — but not actually — better for you. But apart from — excuse the expression “puffery” — they stacked the deck with putatively legitimate scientists.BRANDT: They found a group that was hostile to epidemiology, that was committed to the idea that cancers have to be genetic. They hired a lot of people who were highly sympathetic to eugenic notions of genetics and elitism. And then the other thing they did is they gave out a lot of money to scientists. So in my research, I found a young scientist — his grant from the government had run out and they were very good at identifying these folks who were not really fully succeeding and saying, well, we can give you a grant and here's what we want you to do. And then when they produced papers, they edited the papers, they turned them around. Whenever there was a paper that seemed to be hesitant about the connection between smoking and disease, they would make sure it appeared in the press. And they really said there are two sides to this story. The media, in a sense, supported the Hill principles because the media was very committed to the idea that every story has two sides.GARFIELD: The same kind of false balance in, let's say, climate coverage, where climate denialists are given, you know, equal time with global scientific consensus.BRANDT: What the climate science world is based on are the principles of what today are widely called the tobacco industry playbook. So you set up these, like, industry funded, so-called independent research agencies — you know, the Center for Indoor Air Research. And what it turns out is that they're funded by industry and they collect scientists and materials as if they were independent. And the tobacco industry worked very, very concertedly to produce this alternative. And one of the arguments I'm prepared to make is the tobacco industry invented disinformation at this scale.GARFIELD: You were talking about the the cult of false balance, which is a longstanding journalistic reflex. But there's something else, and that is that as a revenue source, tobacco advertising was one of the two or three largest sectors for television and newspapers and magazines. So while the harm of tobacco was reported, there were huge disincentives for the media into taking sides. Do you think that that disincentive was corrupting?BRANDT: I do. I think that one of the things that the tobacco industry also invented, in a sense, were these very powerful conflicts of interest and in the largesse of the companies and their deep pockets really corrupted a number of critical social institutions, to some degree journalism. But in many ways, I would emphasize how it corrupted our political processes. And today, we give a lot of attention to special interest lobbying and contributions to political campaigns that we understand have undermined our democratic processes, especially around issues of science. The first part of Hill's principles, and part of what became the tobacco industry playbook, was to invest in campaigns and invest in politicians and shape their views on legislation through these funds. So, the industry invented disinformation, but it also created the kind of special interest lobbying. So, I sort of go from tobacco. We could include guns. The beverage industry has done a lot of this. And, of course, most notably right now is that the big energy oil companies have utilized so many of these techniques that are familiar for me from investigating the history of tobacco.GARFIELD: When it came to influencing the public and manipulating behavior, it turns out that these were not inexperienced people. As you wrote in the previous half of the 20th century, the industry, quote, “took a product that had existed at the cultural periphery and remade it into one of the most popular, successful and widely used items of the early 20th century.” You know, it's hard to imagine that there was a time when cigarette smoking was relatively marginal. How did they engineer its path from marginal to ubiquitous?BRANDT: The rise of popular smoking is one of the most remarkable stories in the history of mass consumer culture. The industry, through some very brilliant marketing and thinking, was able to take a product — little used, on the margins of society; actually quite a stigmatized product, late 19th century — and absolutely turn it around. They were very aware of the power of mass media, and they focused on making it for youth and making it cool. They focused on making it sexy and they realized that they had a potential to manipulate the culture. There was sort of the notion that cigarettes and American culture didn't fit, that we emphasize productivity, individual responsibility, no idleness. A lot of our culture was hostile to pleasure. And they inverted this. There are many examples of people like Edward Bernays, who was a giant early 20th century thinker in advertising and public relations. And he hired women to march in the Easter Day parade smoking cigarettes because women, it had been thought, shouldn't smoke in public. There were a lot of issues about women taking up smoking, and he associated cigarettes with women's rights and suffrage. So there was a strategic approach to popularizing cigarettes that was incredibly effective. And of course, you have this added advantage with cigarettes that when you do get people to smoke, you also get them addicted. Bernays went to the Hollywood studios and asked them to portray characters that smoke and brought cigarettes into the movies in an intense way. It didn't just happen. It's just an unbelievable story. Almost no one smokes in 1900, especially not cigarettes, and by 1950, 1960, we're very close to a majority of all adults smoking. And the impact that that had on health and continues to have on health has just been devastating.GARFIELD: The Hollywood story is just extraordinary, because not only did the rise of motion pictures parallel the rise of tobacco usage in the world, actors were eager to embrace it because, as you mentioned, you know, it was sexy, but also, also — dude! — it gave them something to do with their hands.BRANDT: Absolutely, and it was like, this is a prop. I'm giving it to you. It's going to appeal to our consumers. They hired many major movie stars who smoked in their movies to then do advertisements for them.GARFIELD: From Ronald Reagan to Mary Tyler Moore to the rugged and macho John Wayne.JOHN WAYNE: Well, after you've been making a lot of strenuous scenes, you like to sit back and enjoy a cool, mild, good-tasting cigarette. And that's just what Camels are, mild and good-tasting pack after pack. I know, I've been smoking ‘em for 20 years. So why don't you try ‘em yourself. You'll see what I mean.GARFIELD: Frank Sinatra actually sang about his cigarette TV sponsor.FRANK SINATRA: Cheeeesterfield. You start with a Grade A tobacco, the best that you can get. It's the sound of big pleasure, the sound I'll be making for Chesterfield in this time spot every week. It'll be easy for me because Chesterfield is my brand. It has been for years.GARFIELD: And Winston brokered a truly historic celebrity deal — or, anyway, prehistoric.BARNEY RUBBLE: Winston packs rich tobaccos specially selected and specially processed for good flavor in filter smokin'.FRED FLINTSONE: Yeah, Barney, Winston tastes good, like a … cigarette should.GARFIELD: Yes, decades before before the cartoon Joe Camel outraged the public by targeting kids, R.J. Reynolds managed to co-opt the appeal of Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble — neither of whom actually smoked Winstons, because they were animated characters from the Stone Age. The point being, though, that before anyone ever used the word “influencers,” Big Tobacco purchased endorsement from whomever conferred authority?BRANDT: Many sports figures, movie actors, famous people, doctors, and they helped create this sort of cult of influence and personality. GARFIELD: Doctors. DOCTORS.NARRATOR: Yes, folks, the pleasing mildness of a Camel is just as enjoyable to a doctor as it is to you or me. And according to this nationwide survey, more doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette.GARFIELD: So before 1952, when the epidemiology started piling up, these guys were wizards at social engineering. And so now it came time to turn those skills on the problem of debunking legitimate science. And hence the playbook you've described. Now, 1953 was 1953, but over time the epidemiological smoking guns were being validated by lab research, cancer in mice and eventually a more fundamental understanding of the effects of tar, nicotine and other chemicals at a cellular level. But controversy was the industry story and they were sticking with it. BRANDT: Yes, it worked for a very long time until it began to erode, because of the concerns that began to arise in the late 1950s, but especially the 1960s, about negligence and responsibility for the tobacco companies through torts and suits.GARFIELD: Product liability.BRANDT: Yes. And so the lawyers kind of took over the strategy by 1960, certainly by 1964. And they said we don't have any choice, because otherwise the liabilities to the industry and information that we know it's harmful would undo the financial structure of the universe of the industries. And there are many ironies about this. Like, you sort of think, well, labeling cigarettes was a public health benefit. And at first the industry opposed labeling, but then the lawyers shift. They say, well, we actually need a label to protect us from liability. So, you know, the first label said: caution, cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health. Actually, its biggest implication was that it protected the companies from liability.GARFIELD: And if anyone said, well, how, you know, how could you have not warned us? They said, well, we did warn you.BRANDT: The companies would say, well, you were aware that there was a label on the package, weren't you? And the litigant would say, yes, I was. And then they say, well, how can you hold our company responsible? And that's the way it went for a long time, really, until the 90s. And then a variety of forces began to direct very damning evidence to the companies. And one is it became very clear that the companies had maintained high levels of nicotine to keep smokers addicted.GARFIELD: But in April 1994, at Congressman Henry Waxman's House hearing on tobacco, under questioning from Congressman Ron Wyden, seven CEOs of major tobacco companies lied under oath — not only about augmenting the effect of nicotine in their products, but that nicotine was the drug that hooked smokers to begin with. The Surgeon General, the National Institutes of Health, the World Health Organization and others were unanimous, but …REP. WYDEN: Lemme begin my questioning on the matter of whether or not nicotine is addictive. Lemme ask you first — and I'd like to just go down the row — whether each of you believes that nicotine is not addictive. I heard virtually all of you touch on it and just, yes or no, do you believe nicotine is not addictive?CEO: I believe nicotine is not addictive, yes.REP. WYDEN: Mr. Johnston?CEO JOHNSTON: Congressman, cigarettes and nicotine clearly do not meet the classic definitions of addiction. There is no intoxication.REP. WYDEN: Alright, we'll take that as a no. And again, time is short. If you could just, I think of each of you believe nicotine is not addictive. We just would like to have this for the record.CEO: I don't believe that nicotine or our products are addictive.CEO: I believe nicotine is not addictive.CEO: I believe that nicotine is not addictive.CEO: I believe that nicotine is not addictive.CEO: I, too, believe that nicotine is not addictive.REP. WYDEN: Dr. Campbell, I assume that you're aware that your testimony, and you've said in your testimony that nicotine is not addictive, is contradicted by an overwhelming number of authorities and associations. For example, in 1988 the surgeon general of the United States wrote an entire report on this topic. The surgeon general, of course, is the chief health advisor to our government. I assume you have reviewed that report.DOCTOR: Yes, I have sir.BRANDT: So that was one thing. The industry fought this tooth and nail, but the evidence really was rising all the time, that smokers could create risks for nonsmokers, especially indoors. And if Americans have a view that it's up to me and I'll take my risks, they're very sensitive to the idea of risks being imposed on them by others. And the change in indoor smoking bans, workplace smoking bans, getting smoking off of airplanes, all these things, I think, undermined the notion that this is a good and healthy product. And these were all elements of the decline of tobacco in the United States. The one other issue that I really wanted to raise here, though, is that the industry had always been focused on getting young smokers. They had to go get younger smokers if they were going to — the word they use — replace the smokers who were dying and the creation of the tobacco market was in the youth market. And often the youth market is an illegal market. For many years, you couldn't buy cigarettes til you were 16 or 18. The number kept going up. So in the 90s, and a lot of people remember this, you know, there was the famous Joe Camel comic book campaign.GARFIELD: Joe Camel was a cartoon.BRANDT: Yes, a cartoon character. Totally cool. Flying jets, getting women, hanging out in clubs. And a lot of the information from the development of that campaign is now fortunately in the archives because R.J. Reynolds was sued.BERNSTEIN: The commission's complaint alleges that this campaign was used to promote an addictive and dangerous product to children and adolescents under the age of 18, and that this practice is illegal.GARFIELD: That was Jodie Bernstein, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, in May of 1997.BRANDT: And so I think these things together, you know, the idea that secondhand smoke was harmful to others, that the companies had manipulated cigarettes to be more highly addictive at a time that they said we're trying to protect the public, the appeal to kids. These are the things that led to the kind of crisis of the industry that in some ways it remains in and is looking for strategies to emerge from.GARFIELD: We discussed how the surgeon general warning actually turned out to have the ironic effect of creating legal impunity for the industry. But these smoking guns you're describing, like the marketing to kids, like the documentary evidence that they had added nicotine to tobacco and the science on second hand smoke, they ultimately would give power to litigation that was able to do what legislatures and regulators could not do. And that was to hold the industry accountable.BRANDT: Yes, there was a shift in litigation strategy, in the 90s, from smokers who had been harmed being the plaintiffs, to a very innovative strategy where the state said, well, we pay all these monies to take care of people who your companies have caused to be ill, and you need to compensate our states for the health care expenses that we have had associated with smokers. And it was in the many billions of dollars. And so this states' litigation, brought by attorneys general, turned out to be in many ways quite successful and resulted in what's called the master settlement agreement at the end of the 90s that agreed to pay the states 246 billion dollars to compensate them for the costs that they had had.GARFIELD: Again in 1997, this was Mississippi attorney general Mike Moore taking a victory lap before the assembled Washington press.MOORE: We wanted this industry to have to change the way they do business, and we have done that. We wanted the industry to stop marketing to their products to our kids, and we have come up with a comprehensive plan that will do that. We wanted to do something that would punish this industry for their past misconduct, and we have done that. And we wanted to make sure  that every single person, not only in America but this entire world, knows the truth about what the tobacco industry has done to the people of this world over the last 50 years, and we are satisfied that we have done that.GARFIELD: At approximately the same time as the master settlement was put into force — and this quarter of a trillion dollars penalty to the industry seemed to be a huge turning point, and tobacco usage has plummeted worldwide since then, so I guess it was a turning point — but it happened at the same time that Francis Fukuyama published his book The End of History, which was predicting essentially that liberal democracy had taken hold the world over and that authoritarianism and the forces of reaction were just going to fade into oblivion. That turned out to be prematurely burying ultraconservative politics. And, equally it seems to me that the master agreement prematurely buried the notion that the tobacco industry was on the skids, on the way to oblivion. It did not play out that way.BRANDT: It didn't at all. And we have a notion here in the United States and many countries in Western Europe that we've seen this dramatic decline in smoking. It's no longer a favored cultural behavior. Many, many thousands, millions of people have quit smoking or died from smoking. But the industry had a long term strategy that said, smoking is on decline in wealthy, highly educated societies. So where can we effectively market cigarettes now?GARFIELD: So let's talk about that, because the industry now says: Yes, cigarettes cause cancer, heart disease, hypertension, emphysema and a host of other conditions. And it is our strategy to reduce our revenues associated with combustible cigarettes by 50 percent. And the elephant in the room is the other 50 percent of their revenues. So, on the one hand, they're acknowledging that they are selling a lethal product. And on the other hand, they're saying, and we will continue to do so to the tune of billions and billions of dollars and hundreds of millions of lives. One scarcely knows where to begin, but where does?BRANDT: And this is one of the most diabolical aspects of the changes in the United States and other similar countries — during the 80s and 90s and the early 2000s — is that going all the way back to the 1950s and 60s when the threats to tobacco began to arise, the companies were looking at markets in China, East Asia, Africa, Latin America. So most people think that — and these are the projections of the World Health Organization — that 100 million people died in the 20th century as a result of smoking and that in this century, one billion people will die, 10 times as many, because of the explosion of combustible cigarettes around the world. So I look at the move to e-cigarettes and vaping, as kind of the latest strategy that's really part of this wider history that I've been examining. We need to be very skeptical of these companies that claim that they've crossed over to legitimate health oriented products because they've made these claims since the 1950s. They told Americans, you know if you're worried about smoking, smoke filter cigarettes and that was the beginning of Marlboro. You know, you had a cowboy smoking a safe cigarette, which turned out not to be the case. So I'm very skeptical and worried about the current situation with vaping, e-cigarettes, other nicotine related products, and the idea that we're just a responsible company trying to mitigate the harms that our principal product has produced for over a century. Many of my colleagues, who have advocated with me for tobacco control, thought, well maybe this is the answer. There would be a harm reduction product that would vastly reduce the health impacts of combustible tobacco and lead to a radical change in the epidemiology of tobacco related deaths in the 21st century. They believe that we can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.GARFIELD: Not an uncompelling argument.BRANDT: But what they also realized is people don't start using nicotine products as adults. So, we created a remarkable human-made health crisis through the aggressive introduction of e-cigarettes and vaping without any scientific evidence that they actually served harm reduction, or only minimal and often industry sponsored evidence that they could do that. And so, the history of Juul and vaping as a company is very informative. Juul always claimed, all we want to do is produce a safe product for people who want to switch from tobacco to a vape. But, it now appears that was a big lie because the Juul executives and the company had to understand how much of their market was in underage use of the product. And they addicted thousands and thousands of this generation of young people to nicotine, many of whom are bearing those consequences now, some of whom switch to combustible tobacco. So, it's made me very skeptical of an industry that says: we learned our lesson and we have great products.GARFIELD: Now, I don't ask these questions for no reason. This is 2021, and the same industry that has so corrupted science and research for most of a century is now claiming that it's smoke-free strategy of noncombustible cigarettes is just following the science, that they are asking us to cleave to the science in making decisions personally and as a society. And, you know, how do you feel about that?BRANDT: Well, I just think this is consistent with the strategies that they invented and utilized for a very long time, and as you probably know, just in the last month it was reported that a journal, the American Journal of Health and Behavior, published a entire issue on harm reduction and Juul vaping. It became clear and it was widely reported in the press that the issue of this journal was completely paid for by Juul and the work was done in Juul labs. And so, they return to this strategy of, we can produce the science. And it has muddied the waters and diluted the authority that science really needs to have positive public health impacts. And we really need science. And science has to speak with expertise and authority and validity and clear and aggressive peer review. And we need to know the difference between something that you know is a fact and something that obscures facts. It's a challenge to the planet right now when we think about climate change and its regulation and the intense capital that's involved.GARFIELD: The scorpion stings the frog to death and says, it is my nature.BRANDT: Yes, and in these instances, profits and more profits obscured the consequences. And, we see that honestly with Purdue Pharma. We see it at Juul. We see it in many of the major energy companies. And these strategies of, we can control this space, has really been incredibly harmful to all of our human health.GARFIELD: I already asked this question in a different way, but I'm gonna offer this one up as well. Just putting aside the unknown effect of noncombustibles, even if it achieves its smoke-free goal, half of Philip Morris's revenue will still come from cigarettes people set fire to and inhale, which means millions and millions more deaths around the world. The estimate I saw was six to seven million souls per year around the world, which is a Holocaust per year. If Philip Morris is suddenly so enlightened, by what moral calculus can it continue to kill millions of human beings with their products?BRANDT: It's been a question for the industry since the middle of the 20th century. They have a product that's highly addictive and incredibly harmful and it's incredibly profitable. It involves a lot of powerful people losing a lot of money and they just can't give it up. That's a gigantic problem in relationship to capitalism and health.GARFIELD: We talked about the playbook, how the strategy forged in January, 1953, in the Plaza Hotel has not only dictated Big Tobacco's moves, but also those of the gun lobby and the fossil fuels industry. I don't know, Big Sugar.BRANDT: Yes.GARFIELD: And other industries that cause direct harm to the people who legally use their products. And those initiatives, in those other industries, have us on the brink of planetary destruction. I mean, I don't think I'm hyperventilating here. The techniques that we have described have created and fostered so many existential harms that one wonders what chance have we? Can we make the case that we're discussing crimes against humanity here and the tobacco industry is accountable not only for the deaths from its products, but from the toll of these other industries who embraced tobacco's game plan?BRANDT: Well, I think these are massive crimes and I'm not without hope, but I do think the kinds of crises that we're becoming more aware of have the potential to motivate changes in our politics, our policy, our regulation. So, the combination that we've seen this year of Covid-19, of radical changes in the climate that are changing our weather and threatening health in that way, have to be taken seriously, immediately. I think it's going to take changes in our political strategies and orientations to do that. But the revelations of how these companies behave is an important element to that and understanding what they're doing, how they're doing it, exposing the playbook when it's being used so successfully, is a critical element to building the will to really take this on.GARFIELD: Allan, with a little bit of trepidation, I'd like to one more time revisit the infamous Plaza Hotel conference and offer a historical analogy. In early 1942, the Nazi High Command held a secret conference in a villa in the Berlin suburb, Wannsee, to forge the Final Solution for the so-called Jewish question, namely the destruction of the Jews in Europe. So that was fateful in the worst way. Now, the meeting you're describing, that took place not quite 12 years later, has the tobacco industry convened at the Plaza to forge a strategy for the so-called, these were their words, tobacco question — in this case, by destroying scientific consensus through disinformation and doubt. Now, I'll get flak for this, along Godwin's Law lines, because the Holocaust claimed six million Jewish lives. But in the balance of the 20th century, tobacco claimed on the order of 350 million human lives, which I guess until the advent of the climate crisis, may have been history's most lethal crime against humanity. What took place at this conference?BRANDT: Well, I think what Hill was able to do was to appeal to a kind of psychological rationalization on people who had spent their whole careers in this tobacco industry culture. They said, well, we've always had a controversial product. There have always been people against us. They'd convinced themselves, I think at least at first, that there really was some ambiguity and that there really was some uncertainty. But rather than that being marginal to the way we understand science, Hill's strategy gave it a bullhorn, and so when Congress would have hearings about are cigarettes harmful or not, there was always a kind of notion, the tobacco control people and the epidemiologists will come in and then the industry scientists will come in. And I think publicly we were quite naive about how that worked, and now we can look back and see into it that this is the origins of industrial disinformation, misuse of science at the tremendous costs of public health and global health that you just mentioned.GARFIELD: So, going back to my analogy, that grim analogy, is it overheated? Is it unhelpful? Is it irresponsible?BRANDT: I wouldn't say it's unhelpful, but I do think that it's probably good to look at this kind of industrial impact on death and disease in a slightly different context than the Holocaust and Nazi decision making. They both do reflect a fundamental disregard for human life and a series of psychological rationalizations that are sold to the public and are based in fundamental misconceptions about what we know and how we know it. But as you say, it's a politically fraught analogy. The notion of these people were evil and they did something horrendous, it sometimes can obstruct our ability to see the mechanisms of work at how industries have exploited public health for incredible financial gain and greed.GARFIELD: Allan, thank you very much.BRANDT: It's really been great to talk to you.GARFIELD: Allan Brandt is professor of the history of science at Harvard and author of The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America.(THEME MUSIC)GARFIELD: All right, we're done here. Now then, Bully Pulpit is produced by Mike Vuolo and Matthew Schwartz. Our theme was composed by Julie Miller and the team at Harvest Creative Services in Lansing, Michigan. Bully Pulpit is a production of Booksmart Studios. I'm Bob Garfield. Get full access to Bully Pulpit at bullypulpit.substack.com/subscribe

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