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The Jackpod: Hold the joy

35:10

September 06, 2024

This is an aerial view of the once famous Burgerbrau in Munich where the beer hall push started and Hitler once escaped a bombing, shown June 1945. (AP Photo/Henry Griffin)

On Point news analyst Jack Beatty finds contemporary resonances in the new book by British historian Richard J. Evans, “Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich.”

Guest

Jack Beatty, On Point's news analyst. He was a longtime senior editor at The Atlantic Monthly. Author of Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900.

The Jackpod: History, literature and politics with Jack Beatty