{"id":8070,"date":"2014-07-28T21:05:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T01:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=8070"},"modified":"2014-07-29T02:21:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T06:21:08","slug":"podcast-re-explaining-hitler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-re-explaining-hitler","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Re-Explaining Hitler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Return of Rosenbaum by Gil Roth, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chimeraobscura\/14681206426\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5556\/14681206426_4c372bee10_z.jpg?w=440&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Return of Rosenbaum\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_28_-_Re-Explaining_Hitler.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual Memories: Ron Rosenbaum\u00a0&#8211; Re-Explaining Hitler<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1725\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8070-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_28_-_Re-Explaining_Hitler.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_28_-_Re-Explaining_Hitler.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_28_-_Re-Explaining_Hitler.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_28_-_Re-Explaining_Hitler.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=8070-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_28_-_Re-Explaining_Hitler.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Season_4_Episode_28_-_Re-Explaining_Hitler.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Interviews\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The choices that an artist makes are not traceable back to a particular set of neurons firing. They&#8217;re choices made by the complete consciousness of a person. Art, in a way, validates free will, and thereby validates the notion of evil.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/@ronrosenbaum1\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Rosenbaum<\/a> returns to the show to talk about the new edition of his great book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0306823187\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0306823187&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=4LRLG2TX7WWISPN3\">Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0306823187\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> (Da Capo Press)! We talk Hitler, the meaning(s) of evil, determinism and free will, Hitler-as-artist vs. Hitler-as-suicide-bomber, &#8220;degenerate art,&#8221; the tendency to blame Jews for their misfortune, his search for the &#8220;Higgs Boson&#8221; of Hitler, and how internet culture has warped the meaning of Hitler in the 16 years since Ron&#8217;s book was first published.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1726\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8070-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_28_-_Re-Explaining_Hitler.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_28_-_Re-Explaining_Hitler.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_28_-_Re-Explaining_Hitler.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_28_-_Re-Explaining_Hitler.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=8070-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_28_-_Re-Explaining_Hitler.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Season_4_Episode_28_-_Re-Explaining_Hitler.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Interviews\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I just couldn&#8217;t bear being a graduate student, so I dropped out after a year and revolted against academia. I wanted to hang out with cops and criminals and write long form stories about America, about crimes, about strange things.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, we also get around to some other fun topics, like whether his studies of the Holocaust inspired him to become a &#8220;better Jew&#8221;, whether it&#8217;s possible to knowingly commit evil, how Bleak House changed his life, and just how he managed to become a unique voice in American nonfiction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_28_-_Re-Explaining_Hitler.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>\u00a0Then check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-archive\" target=\"_blank\">the archives<\/a>\u00a0for more great episodes! Related conversations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-disarm\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Rosenbaum on The Bomb<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-bildung-stories\" target=\"_blank\">George Prochnik<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-reading-maketh-a-full-man\" target=\"_blank\">DG Myers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-slippery-animal\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Jay Friedman<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-on-cats-and-calamities\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Trachtenberg<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Follow <em>The Virtual Memories Show<\/em> on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-virtual-memories-show\/id531173075\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vmspod\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VirtualMemoriesShow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemoriespodcast.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?tag=podcast&amp;feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\">RSS<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About our Guest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ron_Rosenbaum\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Rosenbaum<\/a>&#8216;s work has appeared in <em>The New York Times, Harper\u2019s, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/authors.ron_rosenbaum.html\" target=\"_blank\">Slate<\/a><em>, Esquire<\/em> and other magazines. He is currently the national correspondent for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/author\/ron-rosenbaum\/?no-ist\" target=\"_blank\">Smithsonian Magazine<\/a>, and was recently featured in the History Channel documentary, &#8220;The World Wars.&#8221; His books include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060934468\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0060934468&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=FBOPGXBAUTCIV2AK\">The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense Investigations and Edgy Enthusiasms<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0060934468\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0306823187\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0306823187&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=KETCDM4GIWYGW6NJ\">Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0306823187\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1416594221\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1416594221&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=7T3FXVIMFU64WN5Q\">How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1416594221\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0375503390\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0375503390&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=7RKSRZJQFGFWQVSK\">The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0375503390\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, and he edited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0812972031\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0812972031&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=ZUMOSLMDOHYM2Z7H\">Those Who Forget the Past: The Question of Anti-Semitism<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0812972031\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. You can find him on twitter at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/@ronrosenbaum1\" target=\"_blank\">@ronrosenbaum1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Credits: This episode\u2019s music is <\/em>Back to Black<em> by Amy Winehouse (see, because Ron&#8217;s a fan of her stuff, and the episode is about his returning to the topic of evil, and &#8212; oh, never mind). The conversation was recorded in a friend&#8217;s apartment\u00a0on a\u00a0pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002SQJLA4\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B002SQJLA4&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Blue enCORE 200 microphones<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002SQJLA4\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0feeding into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001QWBM62\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B001QWBM62\">Zoom H4n recorder<\/a>. The intro and outro were recorded on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002VA464S\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B002VA464S&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Blue Yeti USB Microphone<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002VA464S\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. Processing was done in Audacity and Garage Band. (There was a loud air conditioner, so I did some noise removal, which may have tweaked the audio a little.) Photo of Mr. Rosenbaum by me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Memories: Ron Rosenbaum\u00a0&#8211; Re-Explaining Hitler &#8220;The choices that an artist makes are not traceable back to a particular set of neurons firing. They&#8217;re choices made by the complete consciousness of a person. Art, in a way, validates free will, and thereby validates the notion of evil.&#8221; Ron Rosenbaum returns to the show to talk &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-re-explaining-hitler\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Podcast: Re-Explaining Hitler&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,4,1183,17,20],"tags":[2758,2756,2765,2761,530,1448,2766,2760,2008,2762,2768,2759,1015,885,627,1995,2769,1747,2763,322,86,2179,2764,2757,2767,1254],"class_list":["post-8070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-literature","category-podcasts","category-politics-explicit","category-religion","tag-alan-bullock","tag-albert-schweitzer","tag-alice-miller","tag-berel-lang","tag-billy-joel","tag-charles-dickens","tag-claude-lanzmann","tag-cornelius-gurlitt","tag-daniel-goldhagen","tag-george-steiner","tag-get-carter","tag-h-r-trevor-roper","tag-hitler","tag-isaac-bashevis-singer","tag-jd-salinger","tag-jesus","tag-john-keats","tag-karl-marx","tag-moses","tag-raymond-chandler","tag-ron-rosenbaum","tag-rouhani","tag-simon-wiesenthal","tag-sir-richard-evans","tag-ted-lewis","tag-wittgenstein"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-26a","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16244,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-550-ron-rosenbaum","url_meta":{"origin":8070,"position":0},"title":"Episode 550 &#8211; Ron Rosenbaum","author":"Gil","date":"August 15, 2023","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 550: Ron Rosenbaum \"We're in an age where machines \u2014 AI, big data \u2014 are taking over human emotions and endeavors.\" With the release of IN DEFENSE OF LOVE: An Argument (Doubleday), Ron Rosenbaum offers up a series of essays to save love from scientizers, extremists, the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/rosenbaum2023comp.jpg?fit=1122%2C800&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/rosenbaum2023comp.jpg?fit=1122%2C800&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/rosenbaum2023comp.jpg?fit=1122%2C800&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/rosenbaum2023comp.jpg?fit=1122%2C800&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/rosenbaum2023comp.jpg?fit=1122%2C800&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":17784,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-659-ron-rosenbaum","url_meta":{"origin":8070,"position":1},"title":"Episode 659 &#8211; Ron Rosenbaum","author":"Gil","date":"October 21, 2025","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 659: Ron Rosenbaum \"I'm always looking beyond the surface of the words to deeper meanings. 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