Brendan Simms
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Oct 14, 2026
Thomas777GUEST
You know, a lot of these treatments, um, have a, a, a very, very punitive view of the party and of its loyalists, and they're certainly not friendly to Adolf Hitler, but they, they normalize him And within the context of a historicist discussion of, of his life and times and, and, and career as a war-- as a politician and then as a warlord.
Thomas777GUEST
Um, most recently, 2019, this book, Hitler: A Global Biography by Brendan Simms.
Thomas777GUEST
This is an important book, and specifically it dovetails with something I've written about rather extensively.
Thomas777GUEST
That is, it's my belief that Adolf Hitler believed America to be his primary adversary.
ThomasGUEST
You know, a lot of these treatments, um, have a, a very, very punitive view of the party and of its loyalists, and they're certainly not friendly to Adolf Hitler, but they, they normalize him in, within the context of a historicist discussion of, of his life and times and, and, and career as a war-- as a politician and as a warlord.
ThomasGUEST
Um, most recently, 2019, this book, Hitler: A Global Biography by Brendan Simms, this is an important book, and specifically it dovetails with something I've written about rather extensively.
ThomasGUEST
That is, it's my belief that Adolf Hitler believed America to be his primary adversary.
ThomasGUEST
He believed Roosevelt was his personal enemy.
ThomasGUEST
You know, H- Roosevelt's radio addresses and Hitler's radio addresses, they were, they were obviously in direct dialogue with each other, and it's fascinating.
ThomasGUEST
And then finally, um, you know, how I wanna get into some comparing, comparing and contrasting, you know, in direct, kind of in direct capacity, you know, um, of textual criticism.
ThomasGUEST
You know, like the Sims book and books like R.H.S. Stolze's fantastic biography of Hitler called Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny, and John Toland, who I believe wrote the kind of seminal biography on Adolf Hitler.
ThomasGUEST
I, I part ways with him on some claims, um, and we, we'll, we'll get into that later, Toland, I mean.
Charles CottierHOST
I'm a host on the channel.
Charles CottierHOST
And today we're pleased to have with us master historian Brendan Simms.
Charles CottierHOST
Professor Simms is a professor in the History of International Relations at Cambridge University.
Charles CottierHOST
He is a fellow of Peterhouse College, also Cambridge, and he's the author of eight well, very well-received books, among which is the widely acclaimed Three Victories and a Defeat about British foreign policy in the 18th century.