Podcast Episodes

E329: Dear Diary (part III)

Stern is now spending millions, historians are cautiously warning them, and Konrad Kujau is sitting at home frantically producing more and more volum…

2 months, 1 week ago

E328: Dear Diary (part II)

Gerd Heidemann follows up on the supposed Hitler diaries and finally meets the man behind them. Money starts changing hands in ways that should proba…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

E327: Dear Diary (part I)

This week, we start a story that begins with a boat, takes a detour through a small village in East Germany, and ends up with one of the biggest medi…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

E326: A Butcher, a Tailor & an Emperor walk into a Bar

In 1853, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria goes for one of his regular walks in Vienna. It’s something he does often enough that people know where to…

3 months ago

E325: The Great Molasses Flood (part III)

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3 months, 1 week ago

E324: The Great Molasses Flood (part II)

This week we’re in January of 1919, in Boston’s North End. People are still recovering from the First World War and the 1918 flu, the area is packed …

3 months, 2 weeks ago

E323: MACABRE - The Great Molasses Flood (part I)

When we first started Fresh Hell, people kept asking us to cover the Boston Molasses Flood. So…here we are. And because Annie researched this one, we…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

E322: Friedrich Zawrel (part IV)

After everything he survived as a child at Spiegelgrund, Friedrich ends up back in prison in the 1970s, where he is sent for a psychiatric evaluation…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

E321: Friedrich Zawrel (part III)

In Part 3 of Friedrich Zawrel’s story, we follow him through detention, sentencing, and a harrowing journey along the Danube as the Third Reich falls…

4 months ago

E320: Friedrich Zawrel (part II)

In Part 2 of Friedrich Zawrel’s story, we meet the doctors of Spiegelgrund.

Dr. Ernst Illing and Dr. Heinrich Gross were psychiatrists working inside…

4 months, 1 week ago