August 1934, Nazi Germany. The military changes its oath of service and swears “unconditional obedience” to the Führer personally rather than to the German constitution. Even though the highest-ranking officers in the German army do not always agree with Hitler, they find a common ground that allows them to partner with him because: – the…
Around 1900, what we call the Old West was very different from the movies. Gunfights, gold fever, land wars, and a whole lot of stories swept under the rug. In this series, we’re going to dig into overlooked archives, listen to experts, and tell 23 episodes that show who really ran the frontier, what was…
The SS processed her paperwork the same way they processed applications for postal supervisors. A form, a physical check, an assignment. Jenny Wanda Barkmann was 21 years old, had been doing fashion modeling work in Hamburg before the war made that largely irrelevant, and her application to the SS Aufseherin in program moved through without…
Johnny Ringo was feared in the Old West, but his death in 1882 in Arizona remains one of the biggest mysteries of that time. His body was found leaning against a tree with a gunshot wound to the temple. The revolver was still in his hand. Suicide, a lot of people doubt it. Doc Holiday…
In September 1941 in occupied Serbia, the Third Reich conducted one of the most loathsome experiments on humanity, the commercialization of death. Through a blood equation approved by Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, German soldiers revalued human life using soulless numbers. 100 civilians for every German soldier killed in action and 50 for every wound inflicted…
In the middle of World War II, a young Jewish girl named Anne Frank went into hiding to escape Nazi arrest, living in secret for over 2 years before being discovered and taken away. What happened to her next was both brutal and public, and it began long before anyone ever heard her name. Anne…
Muhammad Ali sat across from Saddam Hussein for 50 minutes. No translator, no US officials, just the greatest and one of history’s most brutal dictators. Ali’s Parkinson’s made his speech slurred and difficult to understand. Saddam could have imprisoned him, could have killed him, could have used him as propaganda. Instead, at the end of…
Summer 1974. Muhammad Ali sat in his Deer Lake dining hall reading the morning paper. Three young boxers walked in and made a mistake that would haunt them for life. They disrespected the greatest. What Ali did in the next 45 seconds without ever putting down his newspaper became the most legendary story ever told…
February 1964, Sunny Liston called Muhammad Ali a pretty boy pretender who can’t fight. What Ali did at midnight outside Lon’s house brought seven police cars and shocked the world. But what happened 3 weeks later in Miami made Lon wish he’d never opened his mouth. The story begins not in a boxing ring, but…
It was a hot August afternoon in 1975 at Muhammad Ali’s gym in Miami. Ali had just won the Thriller in Manila against Joe Frasier a few months earlier, cementing his status as the greatest boxer of all time. But at 33 years old, some younger fighters were starting to whisper that Ali was past…
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