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Hitlers Secrets, Oppenheimer & The Nuclear War Explained by a WWII Expert Benjamin Hett
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Apr 16, 2024
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2h 49m
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🏞️ Sign up for free and exclusive updates: https://camp.beehiiv.com/subscribe Benjamin Hett is a historian, author, and college professor specializing in World War 1 and 2. I don't know anything about WW2, so today he came on to explain the whole conflict to me. He revealed what happened to Hitlers body, how nuclear war happened, and the future of global conflicts. WELCOME TO CAMP! Intro by @Chifftie Produced by @99OvrAll
- 0:00Intro
- 1:21Biggest misconceptions about WW2
- 4:16Why Soviets were responsible for winning the war
- 7:00Soviet incompetence, Siege of Leningrad + Holodomor
- 11:30Americans’ fondness for WW2 because it didn’t impact domestically
- 14:20US economy - from the Depression to being 50% of world’s GDP
- 19:09Why does World War 2 start?
- 24:45Rise of Fascism + difficulty defining “fascism”
- 35:06Imperialism birthing modern-day racism
- 42:22What is an Aryan?
- 45:32Germany post-WW1 + extreme hyperinflation
- 50:19Fascist regimes enacting expansionism + ramping it up in 1930s
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