In this episode of pplpod, we profile Adolf Hitler, the Austrian-born dictator whose leadership of the Nazi Party led to the outbreak of World War II and the perpetration of the Holocaust. We trace his origins from a "morose" student in constant conflict with his father to a failed artist living in Vienna’s homeless shelters, where he first absorbed the antisemitic and Pan-German rhetoric that would shape his ideology,,.

We examine his transformation during World War I, where he was decorated for bravery but radicalized by the "stab-in-the-back" myth following Germany’s defeat,. Discover how he utilized hypnotic oratory and propaganda to rise from a beer hall agitator—imprisoned after a failed coup—to the Chancellor of Germany, dismantling the Weimar Republic to establish a totalitarian dictatorship,,,.

Finally, we discuss th ...