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For this episode of In Bed with the Right, Adrian and Moira return to the year 1933. They continue the story of how Hitler seized power, what it did to society, what it felt like to live through it, and -- as always -- what role gender and sexuality played in events. Reminder: We're going month by month for these episodes. This ninth installment covers November 1 to November 30, 1933. It's about democracy after democracy. On November 12, the Nazis held an election, the second after Hitler had become chancellor, but the first since the Enabling Laws had fully established a dictatorship. This episode is about this bizarre exercise, about how average Germans experienced it, and about how émigrés reacted to a country that was fusing more and more with its ruling regime.

One quick content note: Adrian moved a little quickly through the election results about 25 minutes in. The first set of numbers he's talking about are the ones for the parliamentary election (where basically only Nazis could be voted for, but some non-Nazis were on the ballot). The second set of numbers are about the referendum about leaving the league of nations. Our apologies if this didn't become clear!

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Gwen

This series has been so interesting so far I didn't even think about it ending with the end of the year in December. As an Austrian I would love to see a continuation on or up to the year of the Anschluss of Austria in 1938 (Austrofacism, the theatrics of state resistance and the vote on joining Nazi Germany!) but this might not be of interest for as many people as 1933.

Alice Kron

Never been happier to sit in a state of suspended horror for nearly an hour 😍

kathleen

Me! Me! I'm interested!!

James Hultgren

I know this might be a little out of scope but I’d be really keen to hear you both explore Positive Christianity; the analogue with US Christian nationalism is clear, but the fact that it was top-down and essentially failed is interesting, and the competition between it and the paganism that was preferred by other Nazis… anyway, just an idea!

Elizabeth

I would love to hear Project 1946 or Project Anschluss or whatever you decide to do next. I’ve been reading The Ratline by Philippe Sands and struck by how quickly the Americans pivoted from bringing Nazis to justice to recruiting them in the Cold War. Thank you for all you do!!

James Talley

John Ganz interviewed a Machiavelli scholar recently who made a big point about the importance of strong punishments for the elites who get us into disasters. (Plus, it was a new-to-me take on Niccolo overall.)

Julia

As a fellow Austrian I think that might be also a good example of Entnazification and how to not do it, considering the political development in the following decades with the FPÖ etc

Avocado Mistress

Do you have a citation for that essay on Hate? Really interested to read it!

Saschi

not a spotify apologist, but yes I do use it. and the AI thing summarized one day where I apparently spent 14.5 (how???) hours listening to IBWTR as "the day you let right-wing theory fill every hour" RUDE!

Megan

I know the bulk of this episode was about differences from 2025 but damn the comment about elites trying to metabolize a threat or inchoate screaming as an opinion hit *hard*.

Nevrosiel

Project 1946 or Project "Persilschein" sounds really really good. Especially with some Punishment theory mixed in...