He was once hailed as the “Kaiser of Peace.” By 1918, his empire lay in ruins, and millions had died in vain. To avert a “Russian scenario” like the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, Germany's military dictatorship under Hindenburg and Ludendorff made a desperate, calculated move: they handed power to civilians to seek peace. We trace the…
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Five hundred years ago, a radical firebrand emerged to take Martin Luther's Reformation in a far more dangerous direction. While Luther preached spiritual reform, Thomas Müntzer demanded a heaven on earth, fusing scripture with revolution and arming the peasantry against the feudal lords. On Putschcast, we trace this rivalry from the theological schism to the…
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After the gruesome end of World War II and in a city filled with rubble, a disciple of Stalin built a fortress. He was the goateed architect of German Socialism who made it onto the cover of Time magazine and who didn’t shy away from setting up one of the most rigid police states to…
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Putschcast is here! Keep your bayonets and guillotines sharpened as we explore current and historic coups and revolutions on a new global podcast. Each episode will focus on a unique event in history where power changed hands for better or worse, suddenly or through a long decline. We will get to meet powerful dictators, revolutionary…
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