The Night of the Long Knives | The Nazis in Power 

Hope you guys keep on doing the video format! Love it with the other „Rest is“ shows!

Already listened to this episode on sporify. But Tom's facial expresions while doing a german accent in the intro enhances the viewing experience.

"This paints the Nazi's in a very bad light" is a lovely quote.

It is absolutely insane how they could openly kill their political opposition and then two years later be allowed to host the Olympic games like nothing happened.

So glad to see you're doing these again! Already listened to the episode but watching this as well! 😊

this podcast is even better when you can see these two getting all excited when talking!

I can imagine Göring at that wedding reception, saying “Are you going to eat those sausages?”

Welcome back fellas. Its good to see you back on yt

So happy to see another one of these. I've listened to the podcast already, but I like seeing the facial expressions and pictures - so watched this too. I appreciate the extra work that goes in to doing these. 🙂

I know it's extra work, but I do enjoy video podcasts. Unless I'm walking or driving, then audio only. Cheers boys.

As much as I enjoy the regular podcast I occasionally get distracted when only listening to audio. This helps me soak up every detail. Love this new format!

LOVE the video format.

Really enjoying the video format!

A slight annotation to the translation used for Hitler's Reichstag speech: "I was the supreme judge..." does not quite nail it. He called himself "des deutschen Volkes oberster Gerichtsherr". Gerichtsherr has and even back then had a far more authoritarian connotation than Richter, i.e. judge. It's a throwback to feudal times when the feudal lord had ultimate jurisdiction over his subjects. The term speaks of power rather than justice, and in this context does away with even a pretense of a rule of law. So, translating it as "judge" is a bit off. I presume it is the standard English translation of the speech. Nevertheless, a suggestion for future projects: Perhaps there is an English term from feudal times that comes with similar connotations and that could be used. Otherwise: Very educative and entertaining episode. Thanks a lot.

"This paints the Nazis in a very bad light..." 😂

Love this channel, I always listen to it when falling asleep for the first 40min. I really missed it. It’s fun learning about history 😊

Was gifted a handful of Dominic’s Adventures in Time books for Christmas! Very happy and looking forward to reading them with my son. Love the video format!

Terrific analysis. As others have said, please keep these YT vids going. So much easier to find than other such videos on YT.

Loved watching this, even though I had already listened to the podcast episode. Please do more of these. I really enjoy seeing you both and the photos of the people you reference is very helpful. 👍

This is really great, who doesn’t love Rohm the love bandit, I’m a big fan of the show. I love watching it on video.

Just another reason this is my favorite binge watching channel, many vids I watch multiple times. Thanks for making and thanks for sharing 👍🇿🇦

This is great to see you guys in action. However, having already listened to this episode I am doubling my time allocation. Interesting product placement going on in the background Dominic!

When I was at school in the 80's my teacher invited a friend of his who was a journalist in the 1930's to speak to us. He had interviewed Hitler in the mid 30's and had been given a signed copy of Mein Kampf. He told the story of how he lost it on the way back to the airport. I can't remember the persons name, so if anyone has any knowledge of English Journalists who interviewed Hitler in the 30's it would be nice to be reminded of his name. I can't imagine there would have been that many.

This is a great way for me to share your excellent work. Thank you !

You guys are so spot on with your summaries and analyses of this incredible period in history. You are also fantastic interesting story tellers!

Love the format and I love the episode! I can't wait for more of this series!

Great video, I'm glad that I was recommended your channel. Thank you!

Like a lot of people I've already listened to this but it's fantastic that you're now visually recording the pods. Would be great if this was a regular thing now!

I could listen to you gentlemen speak about this forever.

It was a very interesting experience seeing your faces for the first time, after listening to your podcast for 2 years and getting used to your voices. Love the podcast, appreciations from the United States.

Video podcasts are great!!

Thank god for that, heard one of them was called Dominic then at the end I had the terrible thought that I'd been listening to Dominic Cummings for 52 minutes (and finding him engaging and enjoyable) and had to go look them up. Dominic Sandbrook, thank fuck.

I'd already listened to this, but had to ride both horses and watch it too

Not sure what Uncle Monty would have made of that comparison!! Great episode. I have only recently disovered this channel and I'm loving it.

This was great. Very enjoyable presentation.

Great to see you both!

Very interesting and compelling format and substance.

Brilliant show and format folks, I love when Dominic laughs and cracks up too 😂

Welcome back lads!

Jeez i was getting worried, good to have you back, also can you have Bart van Loo back on please, loved the burgundian episode!

I have stayed in Bad Weissee twice, never at all realised the history of the place I was there for work.

I think Dominic's study wins hands down

Tom sounds like Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau asking for accommodation in The Pink Panther - A Rohm?

❤love this story of that particular history!!!😊

Watching so many of the your video podcast, they’re great!! I’ve been trying to work out the entire time if you’re both in the same room or not 🤣

Very interesting, great vid. However, Hitler wasn't actually a vegetarian as you said. He was, apparently, advised by his doctor to cut down on the sausage intake to manage his chronic flatulence, but still occasionally ate meat. As for the drinking, he gave up after getting hideously drunk on Schnapps as a youth and waking up in a field. By the way, did you know that Jagermeister once had the nickname 'Goering's schnapps' because of his fondness for the drink? Though for some reason the company does not use this nickname in its advertising today....

Please keep doing these on Video! I love the Podcast and I’m a paid subscriber! This is just one more fantastic piece to “The Rest Is History” World!!🥰

Got my signed copy of the new rest is history book. 😊

Are these videos separate from the audio podcasts??

Just wondering Mr Sandbrook, do you own any books written by anyone else, or are you filming this in a branch of Waterstones?

Love this show, as well as all the others

Rohm is a very interesting character.. after ww1 he remsined an officer in the army. He was an equipment officer in Bavaria and became known aa "the machine gun king" , controlling army supplies , which he put into secret caches for use by nationalist groups , not just nazis. His wartime service included the Stormtroops , elite fighting men. No surprise the name would be reprised for the SA. most of the SA looked to him as their leader and an alternative to Hitler in 1933.

superb stuff, i've read quite a few of dominic's books and i've enjoyed them immensely, i'm particularly interested in the political history of the third reich and the SA and this podcast was very interesting

This is what the world needs to remember how it really goes down , when we loose all our marbles and allow new laws and powers rule our lives . great work lads !

finally new upload

I'm still waiting for a much more comprehensive episode on Nietzsche.....

I miss your tv programs

Len Deighton WINTER - compelling reading

“Hitler visits Essen..which, at the time is having a wold board game championship..which is nice.”…I literally laughed out loud!…

Good stuff guys, slightly childish Thatcher / Hitler comparison aside !

I wish you guys would number the episodes in the series lol

Just realised something interesting with this. I listened to the very first few TRIH episodes when they first came out , and decided they weren't for me, even though I loved Tom Hollands book. I couldn't stand the way they talked over each other. Now watching this, I see they now separate their voice in the podcast, but not in this video. I spent 5 minutes going over the bit at 28:12 when Dominic mentions Tom is a vegetarian, and Tom talks over him, so the next bit makes no sense about why inviting Tom to a wedding would be a bad idea. But if you listen to the podcast, they've split that up so you hear both clearly.

That was great…even though I studied the event some 30 years I didn’t realise Hitler was actually present. I’ve been comparing the characters in the current fascist regime in Russia with their forebears in Nazi Germany Rohm was definitely a Prigozhin…similar sort of role, character & demise!

I wonder if Rohm kept a sensational cellar?

Rohm, what a guy what a dude. Even in stockings and heels 😜.

I've read in multiple books that Hitler's antisemitism didn't develop until 1919. His mother's doctor was Jewish and Hitler treated him gratefully even after his mother had died.

I imagined you fellers a lot younger based on your youthly voices. But it makes sense that one does not obtain such extensive historical knowledge without studying for decades

How awful. You go for a nice, peaceful Nazi spa break and something like this happens. 1 star on Yelp.

They didn't have a clue about DNA. Many today don't know what it means either.

Lessons from history.

I'm related to the Mitford sisters 😂😂😂 Its funny because it's true!

Are they at the same place or is Tom at his place and Dom is at his place

The position of Reichspräsident wasn't " retired" after Hindenburgs death, mergely it became merged in the person of Hitler as Fuhrer (or Leader - or even better Guide). When Hitler died in 1945 Goebbels suceeded him as chancellor but Admiral Dönitz suceeded him as Reichspräsident thus spliting the positions again.

Hitler didn't have an Austrian accent. His people were border people closest to Bavarians in culture, and speaking German with a Bavarian flavour.

The video format is wang-tastic.

See Tik history channel for different historical and I think more broadly researched and thus more acute analysis. However, any channel featuring one of my favourite historians, Mulholland catches and retains my rapt attention.

Ironically the members of the SA were drafted into the German Army anyway.

👏👏👏👏

Sorry to say, but imho, an accented narration (in an attempt to make the reading more compelling) has the opposite effect.

Micah’s daddy was annihilated on the night of the long knives

"Hitler was behaving very poorly." 🤣

Stalin apparently admired Hitler after the night of the long knives.

Why is everyone calling stuff "the rest is".

all for the conversation, but sadly we have Dominic's sad backdrop of failed 'computer games' library sitting in the background ... jeebus

Is it Room or Rome?

Dictators as a rule generally don't like to be challenged - the hint is the name, Dictator.

Perhaps not even during his lifetime has Hitler been such a popular figure of discussion and interest.

Wow. You guys don't look anything like i thought you did. I was expecting dreadlocks and a spliff or two. Are you really from Jamaica?

Röhm was Hitler's closest personal friend.

Fantastic. Okay, I’m off to Rise of the Nazis.

Vot iz your name? Tsh! 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻

How does this compare to the Nakba?

Lost me at the Thatcher comparison

"The death", they mean "the murder".

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Notice these men are not wearing masks, unlike the “Proud Boys” in the USA who believe in the same doctrines.

I have a good feeling you are going to remember me while you are dying

Sandbrook always interesting, but built in to right wing bias, and sometimes selective amnesia on events in the mid and later 20th century that he didn't live through or actually experience.

You should also make the connections to the socialists. Hitler was a socialist and communist first like many nazis were. They all believed in a socialist revolution.

*Promosm*