Elisabetta's First Fatal Dinner Party
SA leader Ernst Röhm wept over his chicken just thinking about Hitler, weeks later the Führer had him and his young adjutant 'Count Pretty' killed in the Night of the Long Knives
History's Fly on The Wall
History you weren't supposed to see, from people who weren't supposed to matter, and why it matters now.
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The Real Housewives of Nazi Berlin
They didn't need frenemies, they had the Gestapo
So You Married a Nazi Drug Addict?
How Carin Göring committed Hermann Göring to an asylum; and his climb back to power, war, and genocide
Madame du Barry's Terrible Death
The original 'hooker with a heart of gold' and the men in her life who proved that mediocrity and misogyny didn't start with dating apps
Marie Antoinette’s Lady’s Maid and the Enemies of the Queen
Madame Campan saw through the glitter of Versailles to the rot, but she couldn't save Marie Antoinette - or her own sister
The Movie Star and the Führer's Filmmaker
What it means to choose opportunity and fame over integrity, and end up on the wrong side of history
Mussolini's Mistress
The spectacle of the strongman, the birth of fascism, and the woman who financed the whole shebang
Hitler’s Clairvoyants
Hitler told us who he was, but no one believed him, including the man who saw the future.
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