620. The Nazis at War: Hitler Strikes West (Part 1)

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Tom Holland quoted from his brother James Holland's book describing how a French advance was held up by a single automatic weapon at the Siegfried Line, illustrating the contrast with French soldiers' bravery in World War I.

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Referenced as the source of Hitler's 1925 statement that 'the life of man is a dreadful struggle for existence,' illustrating his warlike worldview.

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Mentioned as a valuable primary source on the Third Reich in the early war years, noting that Shirer, an American correspondent present in Germany, genuinely thought the Beer Hall bomb was a Nazi false flag operation.

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Referenced multiple times throughout the episode as the source for characterizing Brauchitsch as 'spineless,' for the concept of 'working towards the Führer,' and for analysis of Hitler's popularity and the army's failure to oppose him.