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Very deserving of its Pulitzer…great read/listen for any of our resident politico’s. One of my favorite biographies in recent years….



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Thompson has maybe my favorite nickname of all time….”dimestore dostoyevsky’…..and it’s well earned with this one. I’d recommend reading the physical copy over audiobook or the film, although I think Casey Affleck’s casting as ‘Lou’ made for an ideal mental picture while reading it.

Stanley Kubrick was such a fan of Thompson’s he hired him to help write the screenplays for ‘The Killing’ and ‘Paths of Glory’….

It reads like a fusion of Elmore Leonard and Stephen King.
 
Highly recommend the latest Hitler documentary, Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial. I've watched the first 2 out of 6 episodes, and it's excellent so far. Great overview of WW2 and the lead-up to it in pre-war Germany.

Always found the Nuremberg Trials to be fascinating, and William Shirer's book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is a masterpiece. So the fact that this series is based around the trials and Shirer's first-hand accounts is probably why it's so good.

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axlsalinger said:
William Shirer's book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is a masterpiece.
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Owned the book and loved it, but still bought the audiobook narrated by Grover Gardner…..both absolute masterpieces as you say.

The section on Hitler and his niece, still blows my mind to this day, especially with how little I find it mentioned in other books/docs…..I was completely oblivious to it, until I read Shirer’s book.
 
axlsalinger said:
So the fact that this series is based around the trials and Shirer's first-hand accounts is probably why it's so good.

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Missed this part the first time around….that pushes it from “maybe I’ll check this out”….to must see tv.

His boots on the ground reporting is what makes the book head and shoulders above anything else.
 
Montana said:
Missed this part the first time around….that pushes it from “maybe I’ll check this out”….to must see tv.

His boots on the ground reporting is what makes the book head and shoulders above anything else.
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Yeah, Shirer is directly quoted and is in fact a "character" in this film. It's really cool the way it's done. I didn't know too much about the doc until this week, but I guess they tried different methods to reach a younger audience, and so far so great.

And I agree, the chapter on the niece was so interesting, first time I ever heard anything about it was in that book as well.

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How Netflix’s new docuseries ‘Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial’ aims to reach Gen Z

Now streaming, six-part series constructed as a thriller to hook today's youth. Director Joe Berlinger explains why educating them is crucial
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Can you talk about journalist William Shirer, who’s one of the main narrators of the series — thanks to AI voice recreation — but is not widely known today?

William Shirer’s book “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” (1960), with a swastika on the spine, that was the book. It’s not the only book people read anymore, but he had a unique position because he was one of the few American reporters who was in Nazi Germany at all these pivotal moments, eyewitnessing stuff. And as you’ll see in the series, he’s greatly censored about what he can report while he was in Germany, but he smuggled out his diaries. And he was one of the first people to alert us of the dangers of what happened. Now with our phones and cameras and social media and everything being instantaneous, you can hardly wrap your head around the fact that there used to be a time when we didn’t know anything and journalists had to embed and send out radio reports and all that stuff.

Directly related to how much Holocaust denial and ignorance there is — Shirer was an eyewitness. You can’t dispute an eyewitness, and we have eyewitness testimony throughout the show. So all of these things kind of came together thematically.
 
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