History Flakes - The Berlin History Podcast

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S4E10: Rosa Luxemburg Part 2: From Zürich to Berlin

2026-07-2901:07:371

Last ep of Season 4 Everyone! Yeah it’s long…she was a big deal! Part two sees us follow Rosa to Berlin from Zurich, with her doctorate in hand and a fig leaf marriage for a German passport. The partnership with Leo Jogiches has become long distance (rocky) and she’s flourishing out on her own, developing long lasting and important friendships with the likes of Clara Zetkin and Karl Kautsky. Rosa Luxemburg’s dreams for the working class are big and bold and beautiful, recognising the decimati...

S4E9: Rosa Luxemburg Part 1. From Warsaw to Zurich.

2026-07-1541:111

That’s right! Part 1! And you’d better enjoy this one, because it’s the most fun we’re gonna have on this topic! Imagine, you’re a young woman, charming, witty, a political genius with an unbridled passion for life and your fellow human beings. You make it to Switzerland, one of the only places women can study and meet the love/biggest political influence /worst pain in the arse of your life. He’s rich and good looking. Coalescing here are countless political refugees from multiple different ...

S4E8: Queer Women in Nazi Germany

2026-07-0148:51

Jumping off from Jonny’s brilliant discussion with historian Samuel Clowes Huneke about his book I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany (2026), we talk about some of the stand out stories from this time and the strangely invisible, sometimes very dangerous status queer women occupied under the Third Reich. Jonny and Sam chat on youtube watch here! ++++++ 💸 Donations keep us running. Click below to support the show 🤩 Donate €50 😆 Donate €20 😄 Donate €10&nb...

S4E7: Fritz Lang, early years to 1933

2026-06-1701:17:27

Legendary pioneering film director, original bad boy auteur, visionary…bit of a dick. Fritz Lang’s personal life was almost as dramatic as his films. He’s in Paris for the febrile pre-war days of 1914, showing real acts of bravery on the Galician front. Driving to work at the UFA studios on the days of the Spartacist Uprisings and conveniently dodging Goebbels in 1933. Not the most reliable narrator, particularly when it comes to his first wife and his departure from Berlin in 1933, but if t...

S4E6: Comedian Harmonists w/ Matti Geyer

2026-06-0345:38

Matti Geyer is here!! And we’re talking about The biggest boy band 20th-century Germany had to offer! The Comedian Harmonists, move over 5ive, get out of the way N’sync. Who could forget ‘Mein Kleine Grune Kaktus’ (my small green cactus) ‘Veronica der Lent ist da’…a song about Lent. The sexiest time of year Who’s the cute one? Which one loves his mamma? Most importantly who’s the bad boy?! (It’s…the Bass!). All against the backdrop of the Third Reich and World War Two, wow...

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