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Thomas Weber

Thomas Weber

German higher education teacher

Oct 20, 2026

4:52
So for you, one of the leading experts on Hitler and becoming Hitler, Where did you start? Was it 1889, Austria? Is it more 1914, Munich? Where do we start in understanding becoming Hitler?
5:08
Well, where I personally started, I can tell you, it's precisely with the First World War, with the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
5:18
But that doesn't necessarily mean that I think that that is the time we should look at.
5:23
It was just the...
5:24
I mean, look...
5:26
I grew up in Germany.
5:27
I'm German, as you can hear from my accent.

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51:18
So if we could know and understand when those really started, those ideas began to form and what it was that he envisioned beyond blonde hair, blue iPhone.

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