Alfred Rosenberg was the pseudo-philosopher who supplied the intellectual scaffolding for the Third Reich, yet he was privately mocked by Hitler as a writer of incomprehensible nonsense. This episode examines the profound paradox of a Baltic German outsider who systematized an ideology of racial hatred.

From fleeing the Russian Revolution to publishing his dense 1930 book and running the Nazi cultural surveillance office, Rosenberg turned abstract theory into physical atrocity. We follow his role in cultural plunder, the occupied Eastern territories, the Nuremberg trials, and the chilling 2013 recovery of his personal diary.

• How he fused anti-Semitism and anti-communism into the concept of Judeo-Bolshevism
• Why Hitler chose the uncharismatic Rosenberg as temporary party leader in 1923
• His attempt to rewrite Christi ...