<p>World War 1 has begun, and Robert walks Amanda through how Alfred Hugenberg bought up the German media to make the case the the war should go on for ever, and then how he backed the Nazi party and ushered Hitler into power when that didn't go well for some reason.</p> <p>Sources:</p> <ol> <li>The Pan German League by Barry Jackisch</li> <li><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/hitler-oligarchs-hugenberg-nazi/681584/">https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/hitler-oligarchs-hugenberg-nazi/681584/</a></li> <li>The Fateful Alliance by Hermann Beck</li> <li><a href="https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/weimar-germany/">https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/weimar-germany/</a> </li> <li><a href="https://corporatecitizen.in/issue3/corporate-history-mercedes-was-hitler%E2%80%99s-idea.html">https://corporatecitizen.in/issue3/corporate-history-mercedes-was-hitler%E2%80%99s-idea.html</a> </li> <li><a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-75512-5_1">https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-75512-5_1</a> </li> <li><a href="https://www.topfundsoehne.de/ts/en/site/history/index.html">https://www.topfundsoehne.de/ts/en/site/history/index.html</a> </li> <li><a href="https://archive.org/details/alfredhugenbergr0000leop/page/11/mode/1up">https://archive.org/details/alfredhugenbergr0000leop/page/11/mode/1up</a> </li> </ol><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>