Podcast Episodes

An Impossible Interview V: Goran Adamson

Impossible Interviews returns with an excellent guest, Göran Adamson, professor of sociology and writer of numerous books including Populist Parties and the Failure of Political Elites, The Trojan Ho…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

The Hitler Avatar and His Masochistic Priestess

Everyone knows who the Nazis were and what the Nazis did. Many also know what they, at least Hitler, generally believed. But far fewer actually understand what animated the truest of the true believe…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

Infinitesimal Impossibilities 03: The Warlord‘s Cook

The Infinitesimal Impossibilities subseries returns with a story in which Molly and Alex look at one of the most ruthless dictators of the 20th century...from the perspective of his personal chef. It…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

The Muslim Nazis V: Taking Hitler By The Hand

Season 1 Episode 6

As Hajj Amin al-Husseini hurdles toward his destination with which we started this entire series, the scope of our tale expands drastically with the arrival of the Nazis themselves. Though this isn't…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

Escaping Farhud: The Joseph Samuels Story

Season 1 Episode 5

Sometimes the best way to convey the weight of history is to read the words of just one person who lived it.
In this special episode of History Impossible, we'll be looking at the life of Joseph Samue…

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

The Muslim Nazis IV: Farhud

Season 1 Episode 4

What do you get when all of your best laid plans seem to be falling apart around you with nothing but the suffering of your people to show for it?

Bitterness.

As the 1920s turned into the 1930s, Hajj …

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

The Muslim Nazis III: Nineteen Twenty Nine

Season 1 Episode 3

1929 was, in a lot of ways, the year the world began its final descent into hell. The stock market crash in the United States would lead to untold misery in much of the Western world and allow for th…

Published on 4 years, 2 months ago

The Muslim Nazis II: The Mufti

Season 1 Episode 2

"Palestine is my country and the country of my ancestors—I will sacrifice myself for the sake of its sons."
—Hajj Amin al-Husseini
In the second episode of History Impossible's first series, we'll be d…

Published on 4 years, 2 months ago

The Muslim Nazis I: Early Adventures with Imperial German Islamophilia

Season 1 Episode 1

"The peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France. ... Had Charles Martel not been victorious at Poiters, then we should in all probability have been converted to Mohammedan…

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

An Impossible Announcement: History Impossible in 2021

This is a quick announcement I'd like to make regarding History Impossible's immediate future, which is mostly tied up in this inaugural long-term series--a season really--which needs a bit of explai…

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago