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About Ryan Stackhouse
NBN Episodes hosted by Ryan:
February 17, 2024
1931
What can we learn from the financial crisis that brought Hitler to power? How did diplomatic deadlock fuel the rise of authoritarianism? Tobias Straum…
July 9, 2020
Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg
How did an authoritarian regime help lay the cornerstones of human rights and international law? Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the In…
July 8, 2020
November 1918
Was Weimar doomed from the outset? In November 1918: The German Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2020), Robert Gerwarth argues that this is the…
March 27, 2020
Retreat from Moscow
Germany’s winter campaign of 1941–1942 is commonly seen as the Wehrmacht's first defeat. In Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany's Winter Cam…
March 13, 2020
Disruptive Power
How did Catholic mysticism shape politics and religion in 20th-century Germany? What do seers, stigmatics, and Marian apparitions reveal about broader…
January 22, 2020
West Germany and the Iron Curtain
How did the Iron Curtain shape the Federal Republic of Germany? How did the internal border become a proving ground for rival ideologies? West Germany…
November 20, 2019
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front
What happened when Americans and Soviets fought alongside one another against Hitler? How did relations at Poltava airbase reveal cracks in the Grand …
September 19, 2019
Making Prussians, Raising Germans
How does civil war shape state building and national identity over the long term? What do the underlying conflicts between Hanoverians and the Prussia…
January 18, 2019
Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer
What can the lives of journalists under Hitler and Adenauer reveal? How did they navigate the Third Reich as "internal emigrants"? How did the emergin…
December 26, 2018
Hunt for Nazis
How did the search for Nazi fugitives become a vehicle to oppose South American dictatorships? Daniel Stahl’s award-winning new book traces the story …
November 20, 2018
Weimar Germany
What can the Weimar Republic teach us about how democracies fail? How could the same vibrancy that gave us cultural touchstones spawn Nazism? In his n…
September 27, 2018
Reckonings
What voices have been silenced in the history of the Holocaust? How did victims and perpetrators make sense of their experiences? How did the failed p…
June 12, 2018
Red Saxony
How can political modernization reinforce authoritarianism? What brought middle-class liberals and conservative monarchists to make common cause in la…
April 6, 2018
The Third Reich's Intelligence Service
Who was the spymaster of the Third Reich? How did Nazi ideology influence intelligence collection? Katrin Paehler answers these questions with the fir…
February 26, 2018
Hitler's Compromises
How did the Nazi regime respond to protest? How did Hitler's desire for popular authority shape the relationship between state and society? Nathan Sto…
January 30, 2018
Not in My Family
What if you suddenly discovered a cherished member of your family was a Nazi? How would you make sense of the code of silence that had kept an uncomfo…
December 19, 2017
The Rhythm of Eternity
The German youth movement of the late Kaiserreich and ill-fated Weimar Republic has been a subject of controversy since its inception. The longing for…
November 28, 2017
Better Active than Radioactive!
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in western Europe over the 1970s. Observers feared Germany was becoming "ungovernable" and France …
October 26, 2017
Believe and Destroy
How did a generation of Germany's best and brightest become radicalized? What convinced young intellectuals to join the SS and perpetrate genocide in …