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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 tenth installment covers December 1 to December 31, 1933. In this episode, Moira and Adrian close out the story of this terrible year, draw out some overall observations at the end of about 30 hours of recording and 15 hours of podcast, and trace the fates of some of the protagonists of this series.

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Lorissa

This will be my New Year’s Day jog listening 🩷 One of my intentions for 2026 is to read and participate in the IBWTR Patreon chat more

In Bed With the Right

Whew, can't believe we got this done just in time for NYE! Feels kind of perfect tbh!

Tobias Heal

It came out just in time for those of us in Europe! A great way to wind out the last hour or so before midnight

Nevrosiel

Yeah perfect for tomorrow's lazy day. Just in time here for finishing the series this year 💚

kathleen

Is it odd I'm sorry this series is winding down? I've learned so much, found the readings you mentioned that I've checked out useful, and really appreciated having a little bit of an intellectual guide to the year 2025's context. I'd rather not have needed any of those things to get through the last twelve months. But, I'm stuck dealing with the Real Housefascists of Mar-a-Lago as my unavoidable reality TV until 2028, and it's a relief to have some outside perspective on the dynamic from people whose analysis I trust (plus bonus history knowledge). I've got this episode cued up for dog walking audio for the next couple of days. Happy New Year and thank you for all the effort you put into making this series happen.

David in Brooklyn

Many thanks to you both, and best wishes for the New Year!

Sarah Rose

Made it. Loved it. Thank you. ❤️💛🖤

Elizabeth Williams

Have been listening to this series with great interest, and it helped push me to be a Patreon subscriber. Adrian if you are ever visiting Vancouver or BC I would definitely have a coffee with you!

Z F

Incredible series - I've told several friends and even my therapist about it. Looking forward to the book!

Katie

this series and your show more broadly was a bright spot for me in what was the most difficult year of my life to date. thank you so much for your work, your thoughtfulness and for giving me something to look forward to, however small.

Emily

There are more than five of us, Adrian!

Alexis Nast

I'm sad that the 1933 episodes are over. I found it incredibly comforting throughout this year. Even when there were similarities that really hurt, just having the historical context made it feel more possible to fight and survive. It was also very helpful to hear about the differences and the space they may provide for resistance. Definitely more than 5 of us out here - the episodes gave a framework that helped my friends discuss things as well. Very much looking forward to the book. Thanks to everyone involved with the podcast, and may the next year be better.

Daniel

Congrats on wrapping up an incredible piece of work (and congrats on the book)! This series was a really meaningful part of moving through this year for me. If your travels ever take you to Newfoundland, there’s at least two of us who listened to the whole thing and would love a coffee and a chat! Thank you and happy new year!

Alice Kron

For 2026 I'm manifesting stealing all of Ken Burns' money and giving it to Adrian 🙏✨

Norren M Jender

I've listened to this throughout the year. At the beginning of this month I moved to Mexico City after living in the blue US for all but 6 months I spent in London as a young adult over 40 years ago. Moving to Mexico City is the best decision I've ever made: I'm well aware of the problems in Mexico, but I love it here. It feels like things are on the upswing, democratically speaking, in this city and country, and so I sleep much better at night. I'm not completely cut off: I have to go back to the US for the summer because of responsibilities after my 88-year-old mother's sudden decline and death in March (2025: not a great year!), but I'm returning after then and, unless things improve drastically in the US, will apply for Mexican residency. I want to say, thank you. I don't know that I would have left if not for this series. And it was, for me, absolutely the right thing to do. Also I'm a film critic (sort of, you know how media is these days) and I really want to recommend Julia Loktev's documentary "My Undesirable Friends" which tells a similar story to 1933about Russian activist-journalists leading up to the invasion of Ukraine and how they, one-by-one too had to leave. It's amazing, 5 plus hours that is completely riveting. -Ren

kathleen

I feel like Burns might be supportive of more work like this, tbh. His series on Americanans and the Holocaust was pretty unrelenting in its critical view of the US and fascism in the 30s and 40s.

Alison Roach

Thank you both so much. Like others, I’ve found this series comforting, among many other things. I really appreciate the thought and care you both put into this series and all the episodes.

James Talley

Around the 30 minute mark, when you're discussing those who simulate cruelty...it made me think of Jonathan Last's Bulwark piece on how Marjorie Taylor Green's authentic commitments make her not such an enemy of democracy and liberalism. I remain wary of her, but I'd also love an episode on her.

Gideon Gordon

Thank you so much for this series. On a very personal level it’s helped me a lot emotionally to have some history to focus on (even if it is Nazi history) through a year that felt like it was just endlessly responding to the last five minutes.

nowfailingoutofschool

I had just done a full relisten to this series over the past week as I reflected on my year and tried to wrap my brain around 2025, and it feels very meaningful to ring in 2026 with a mixture of anger and resolve and even delight - congratulations to Adrian on turning this project into a book, and I can’t wait to pre-order! Also since my spouse is out of town I got to break the ‘no depressing podcasts after 10pm’ rule, which has mostly served our household in good stead except for when I REALLY need to hear Moira’s latest take!

Laurel Hall

What an incredibly insightful and moving conclusion to this excellent series. Like others mentioned, it has helped me make more sense of 2025 and to find ways to survive and resist. I'm so looking forward to the book!

Allison

I’ve really loved this 1933 series and am sad to see it go. You both have such a real talent of digesting and synthesizing such complicated topics and making them accessible, interesting, and above all entertaining. Glad you did this, glad I found you, and even more glad to be sticking around! Happy New Year to you both!

Louzie

Yes, 💯 same here. Adrian and Moira, thank you both so much for this series, and for the entire podcast. It was a tough year for me personally, and listening to your entire backlog was weirdly comforting. On that note, listening to this episode in particular during the last hour of 2025, and hearing the pieces of hope and resistance you managed to find in all the horribleness, was the perfect ending for me to wrap up the year and look out into 2026 with a little more hope than I would have, otherwise. <3

A Shade In Shades

Thanks for a fantastic series. Talking about imitative/performative cruelty, I would love an episode about Keir Starmer and gender.

Sophia

There are dozens of us!

Adar Schneider

Thank you for doing this series - what an amazing amount of work and insight you’ve put in. Really appreciate it!

Coco

Can not wait for the book on this topic! Loved this series so very much. A true human take on a dark time. Many thanks for your persistence and perspectives.

Gwen

On the part on the Dresden bombings at the end: I am living in Vienna in one of a few buildings built in the 50s in an area where most buildings are from the late 1600s to the 1890s. My apartment building has been built where a bomb hit in 1945. This is very common knowledge and still the allied bombings of train stations and factories are seen as positive. My city was bombed and had to be rebuilt but all of this helped stop the Nazi rule earlier than other approaches would have done. Also, another one of the empty lots after WW2 in my neighborhood had previously been a synagogue, destroyed by the Nazis. But the bombings of Dresden were far worse. The repeated bombings seem mostly cruel and are considered a war crime by some as far as I know. I recently read some articles of Orwell reporting from Germany and Austria during the end of the war (in a book called "Reise durch Ruinen") and I was struck not only by the very mild criticism in his descriptions of the German population but also of his view that bombing cities was a good tactic because the population left in them was less necessary to the rebuilding effort after the war than the men at the front. (???) I get that bombings of residential areas were also ment to discourage the population at the end of the war and I fully get Klemperer's neighbour's sentiment of wanting to destroy it all but purposefully killing civilians, even civilians complying with Nazi rule, ... I don't know, it's not great.

Amy

Many, many thanks. The series is so well made that it will reward multiple relistenings. I hope that your colleagues around the world see that there is an expanded audience for better and more affordable translations of the many sources you have named.

Amy

And what a wild new year's combo with the Mamdani inauguration.

Foxhilt

What a way to ring in the new year — and to push forward my desire for something better in the new. Amongst many other things, this series has challenged my perspective on history and records, and when I start my new diary for 2026, the lessons from these are ones I'll strive to keep in mind. (Also, it inspired me to pay for an annual membership this year!)

Amy

Aaand upped my membership.

Kristen Daily

Is it too early for requesting that Adrian read the Project 1933 audiobook? I’m sure this will be a very popular request with our hosts. :)

Andu Z

This entire series was so rewarding, I was waiting for the notification every season. It made me reconsider many things I knew about written history and authoritarianism. Cannot wait for the book!!

Rebecca Child

Thank you for such an excellent series! If you're ever in Brighton (UK) I will buy you all the coffee. This was so interesting and informative.

Kate Wellenstein

I really love this series - it was deeply moving and interesting, and I even relistened to many of the earlier episodes in preparation for the finale. I had never heard of Victor Klemperer before listening to the show, and now I have the first volume of his diaries checked out from the library :)

kathleen

MSP and ABQ have great coffee places and I will have it with you any ol' time you're around. This was a terrific conclusion to an excellent series. Thank you again for making it happen.

Nina V~

i know we joke abt the bleakness of this project, but i have to say that this endeavor has helped immensely with my anxiety re: living through and contending with the ways these assholes want to reshape the world. also, congratulations on ANOTHER book, adrian!

John F

What a brilliant tour de force! Thank you. At the risk of being petty, a Mozart concerto played by Yehudi Menuhin was probably a violin concerto…

Kate S.

Absolutely phenomenal. I learned so much. Thank you for all your hard work delivering this important history!

Teresa Ritterhoff

This has been great. I’ve learned so much and can’t wait to read the book. Hit me up for that coffee when you’re in the Rhein-Main area. (Goes for Moira too of course).

Sierra Wilson

Thank you so much for this series, I’ve learned a lot!! And thank you for telling us about the rest of Victor Klemperer’s life under the reich and beyond. Fleeing the bombing of Dresden! Throwing down their yellow stars! So exciting! If you’re in Chicago say hi!

Gabriel Lanciano

I didn’t want to share this until I heard how Victors story shaked out, but I’ve loved following every turn of the series often while working on building my house in Western Massachusetts. I’ve often asked myself if it’s the “right” time to be doing this, but like Victor sometimes fate makes that decision for you.

Susan Heaney

Thank you. I loved listening and I learned so much. Victor's whole journey was fasciinating. I had such a good laugh when Adrian shared Klemperer's reaction to a friend saying what a great orator Mann was and Maura laughed that she loved how Klemperer could manage to be petty at such a fraught time.

Erika Ward

This has been fantastic - thanks!

reportress

thank you for this series. i’ve been putting off listening to it for a long time—1933 is the year my dad was born in oberschlesien, and he was internally displaced in the course of the war while away from his family. now that he is 92 and in the later stages of dementia, i’ve been grieving the fact that i can no longer talk with him about the events that shaped the trajectory of his life. as painful as it is, i’m grateful to have this as a resource to learn from another perspective about the world my dad was born into

Koko Erdmann

This series was so great! I study Eastern European History in Hamburg and my Focus is on Poland and I wanted to ask, if you would also consider an Episode on 1939 bc the ways gender and race intertwine in eastern europe especially during the start of the war are really interesting imo

Joanne Scutero

I certainly hope more than five people listened to all 10 episodes of the 1933 series. As a history nerd, I found it well worth listening to. Any chance of continuing on to 1934?

Kate Falvey

Congratulations on bringing this to completion. Amazingly great work!