Prussian Socialism Episode 41: The Beerhall Putsch Trial of Adolf Hitler and Erich Ludendorff 1924 Sixteen men killed. Dozens wounded. Blood on the cobblestones. The movement shattered. The police chasing down survivors. But the "Beerhall Putsch" was only half the story. The real test was in the courtroom. In 24 tense days of witness-examinations, …

Ancient Greece is foundation of Western-European civilization. What makes it so special? The Greeks were the first to develop true philosophical inquiry. They led the way in literature, theater and art. But their most enduring accomplishment is the balance they found between the interests of the individual and those of his community. For the Greeks…

On November 9, 1923, Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP tried to throw of the yoke of international Jewish finance. Their attempt was defeated, but sowed the seed for the future Third Reich.על ידי Prussian Socialism Podcast

On April 16, 1300, Italian poet Dante Alighieri was the first living man to see Hell with his own eyes. Guided by Vergil, Dante is wrenched back and forth from fear to wonder, giddy glee to sheer, monstrous terror. He beholds the torments of popes and kings, Romans and Greeks, and no small number of his own personal enemies. This harrowing adventur…

What is a Nation? Is it a state, a language-group, a race, or something else entirely? For years, the right-wing has riven itself with moronic disputes about whether this or that group is White... somehow overlooking entirely that race is only part of what makes a Nation. With reference to Hitler, Spengler, Yockey and Friedrich Meinecke, Gregory an…

Prussian Socialism Episode 32: El Cid and Richard the Lionheart. In Europe's centuries-long fight against Islam, the two greatest heroes were Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar "El Cid" and Richard I "the Lionheart". In Spain: El Cid (1043-99) led a band of champions to carve out a new Christian kingdom and defended it from the fanatical counter-attack of the b…

For most historians, German history is Prussian history. The Prussian tradition from Frederick William I onward explains the high proficiency of German armies from 1870-1945. But what about the other German states? What about Austria and Switzerland? Was the Prussian style of war--emphasizing speed, offensive power and detailed planning--the inevit…

What is Islam? Who was Muhammad (PBUH)? Why should White people care? Join Gregory Conte for a fun-filled journey through Middle Eastern History.על ידי Prussian Socialism Podcast

Oswald Spengler believed that European Civilization could have one last act. Through "soul discipline" a new force could rise up to overthrow money-power and establish a great--but by no means perfect--order. In this lecture Gregory Conte draws on Decline of the West and Hour of Decision to explain Spengler's thinking on the rise and coming fall of…

In Mein Kampf, Hitler lays out quite clearly the principles of how to organize politically in the face of tough opposition. He also explains the importance of culture for bringing together workers and professionals. Gregory Conte and William continue their in-depth discussion of Mein Kampf, Book 1, Chapter 12. Happy 4/20. This episode is a sequel t…

Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West offered a radical new interpretation of history. Published at the end of WWI, Spengler attacks the conventional notions of how history should be written and studied. He posits that history should not be viewed as a world-wide series of developments leading to the present moment, but instead that there have been…

Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf is the greatest political treatise of all time. Everyone knows Hitler's opinions on race, Jewish power, and international finance. But what are we supposed to do about it? Greg Conte and William bring you an in-depth discussion of Mein Kampf, Book 1, Chapter 12. Hitler's electrifying thesis: The working class is the key to…

From the mists of ancient Denmark comes this tale of terror and heroism. Beowulf is the story of a Geatish hero who slays three powerful monsters in his life-long quest for fame and honor. Most literature--comic or tragic--tries to be subtle, thought-provoking, emotional. Beowulf is raw awesomeness. It is one of the few books that every young man o…

Romania lies at the edge of two great civilizations: Western-European and Slavic-Russian. For 300 years, it was a bastion against another: the Islamic. Through it all, Romanians, Hungarians and German settlers (Siebenburger Saxons) fought Europe's common enemies, and--often enough--each other. In the 19th and 20th centuries, yet another element cam…

Christmas... the best day to talk about politics with your real community. No matter how you figure it: A popular mass movement is the only way to overthrow the Jewish overlordship of America and Europe. By no other means will the political condition of Whites be bettered. Greg Conte and William pull apart every idiotic "strategy": infiltration, ho…

For four centuries, Indonesia--the world's largest archipelago--was ruled by the Dutch. Who knew? Famed as a source of cash crops like nutmeg, coffee, indigo, and sugar, the Dutch East Indies was the jewel of the Dutch Empire. Greg Conte and William discuss the strange and exotic chapter in colonial history. Books mentioned: Bernard Vlekke, The Sto…

Prussian Socialism Episode 22 The German Settlement of Transylvania [featuring Jazzhands] You have heard of America’s Wild West… but what about Europe’s Wild East? In the 1100s, several hundred Western Europeans came to Transylvania at the invitation of the Hungarian king, Geza II. Their mission: to secure the Carpathian Mountains against the attac…

In November of 1918, a leftist cabal overthrew Kaiser William II and sued for peace with their country’s enemies. These traitors agreed to withdraw German troops from all enemy land and to surrender her fleet. In so doing, they stripped Germany of all her bargaining power. It is not surprise that, in the ensuing peace-conference, Germany was made a…

Review of Ariel Toaff book "Pasque di Sangue" and discussion of other Jewish themes in European folklore.על ידי Prussian Socialism Podcast

Everyone knows about the Crusades in the Holy Land. But what about the Crusades in the Baltic? For 300 years, the Teutonic Order waged war across the Baltic, Poland and even Russia to bring Christianity to the last Pagan peoples in Europe. The Order was founded in Acre in 1190. After a brief stay in Transylvania, it found its calling in the swampy …

Prussian Socialism Episode 19: Goethe’s Faust, Part 2 “Faust Part 2” is the ultimate expression of the European cultural idea. In this vast, 7000-line poem, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lays out his mature worldview. There is hardly a topic that Goethe does not deal with: metaphysics, ethics, economics, politics, poetics, even geology. While “Faust P…

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was one of the greatest and most versatile poets of all time, a rival to Dante, Shakespeare and Vergil. His masterpiece is the philosophical epic Faust, which he worked on for over 50 years. In the traditional Faust-story, Faust sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for 24 years of sin and fun. In Goeth…

Who was Germany's greatest WWII general? According to Field Marschall Erich von Manstein, it was himself. In his 1955 classic Lost Victories, Manstein argues that if Hitler had only listened to him more, Germany could have won the war. He might have had a point. In 1940, Manstein masterminded the invasion of France through the Ardennes. In early 19…

In 202 BC, the Roman Republic was at its height. It had beaten Carthage its most dangerous rival in the Western Mediterranean and was now free to go on a career of expansion and exploitation. In the following 50 years it conquered Greece, much of Spain and north Africa. The Romans got filthy rich. But in the next 70 years it began to break down, a …

A petty Italian city-state went on to conquer Italy and dominate the Mediterranean. At first a town of little consequence, Rome was forced to become a regional power after it was humiliated by invading Gauls in 390 BC. After consolidating its power in Italy, Rome came into conflict with the great sea-empire of Carthage, with whom it fought two tita…

Napoleon humiliated Prussia at the twin battles of Jena and Auerstedt in 1806, reducing Berlin to a French vassal. But after Napoleon's defeat in Russia, the German states rose up against their master. But it was not easy. The Emperor returned to Germany with a new army to beat down the Prussians, Russians and Austrians, and to keep hold of his con…

Prussian Socialism Episode 13: Guderian and the Blitzkrieg. It's August 1941, do you drive on Moscow or the Ukraine? Take Moscow, and Germany deals a huge blow to Soviet moral and cripples the USSR’s logistical system. Take Ukraine, and Germany captures hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops and secures the breadbasket of Europe. Of course, history…

Prussian Socialism Episode 12: Frederick the Great, the Autiste King Over the course of nearly 50 years, Frederick II (1712-86) made Prussia from a minor German state into a European power to rival Austria, France and Russia. After snatching the rich region of Silesia from Austria, Frederick embarked on a series of legal and administrative reforms …

In The Prince, Machiavelli stresses that a leader ought to study war. He also discusses the many uses and dangers in maintaining and employing soldiers. Warren Balogh and Greg Conte argue about the implications of Machiavelli's thinking. What is the proper way to study war? Can too much study of war be bad?…

Prussian Socialism Episode 10, featuring Warren Balogh Machiavelli: Love, Fear and Hate Italian philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) is famous for his realist political outlook. In his book The Prince, he went so far as to argue that a ruler would be better off being feared than loved. Machiavelli is often thought of as an advocate for ruthl…

Prussian Socialism episode 9 Mesopotamian Civilization. Two thousand five hundred years before the age of Classical Greece, the ancient Mesopotamians invented writing. For three millennia, they built up and maintained the world’s first great culture. But after that, its memory vanished for two thousand years, only to be preserved in a few vague Bib…

The Nibelungenlied is a medieval German story of heroism and bloody revenge. An epic poem written down about 1200 AD, it tells the tale of the Burgundian princess Kriemhild and her long-plotted retribution for the murder of her husband, the hero Siegfried. In this lecture, Greg Conte overviews the characters and the plot, and then compares the Nibe…

Prussian Socialism Episode 7: Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi: The Evil Mischling. The half-Japanese aristocrat, Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, is notorious as a promoter of race-mixing and globalism. But was that all there is to the man? Was Kalergi just a foaming-at-the-mouth defender of multiculturalism and Jewish power? Greg Conte and William dis…

Rome fell in the fifth century, and Europeans have spent the last millennium and a half trying to rebuild it. Charlemagne, the Holy Roman Empire, Byzantium, Napoleon, Hitler, the EU and many more looked to the Roman ideal. Of what use today is this political history? Should a pro-White, Jew-free America-Europe form itself into a new empire? Or is w…

The first German Reich lasted for 1000 years. From Charlemagne to 1806, the Holy Roman Empire was the keystone of Europe. But was it really an empire? The HRE is notorious for being fractured and weak, but it was not always so. From Otto I to Frederick II (936-1250) it was a powerful and mostly unified state that contended with Popes and foreign ki…

Russia invaded the Ukraine four months ago. What was Moscow's plan? And what might Putin's bigger strategic objectives be? Greg Conte and William apply Clausewitz's philosophy to the Ukraine war and to the shifting balance of power between Russia, America and China. Books mentioned: Clausewitz, On War The Nibelungenlied Jacques Attali, A Brief Hist…

Carl von Clausewitz 1780-1831 was a Prussian Army officer and theorist. In his book Vom Kriege (On War) he develops his philosophy of conflict, according to which war is "an act of violence to compel the enemy to accomplish our will". He is perhaps best known for the formulation that "war is a mere continuation of politics by other means". In this …

Adolf Hitler's strategic decisions have often been criticized, and even ridiculed, as tactical mistakes or even acts of insanity. But most of this criticism is unsound. Hitler had a far-seeing and clear-eyed picture of world-politics. He understood Germany's place in history and what realistic options it had to secure its future--and the future of …

Who started World War I? Was it the Serbs? The Austrians? The French? According to German war-hero Otto Ernst Remer, it was the Jews and their stooges in the international elite who instigated the bloody, civilization-wrecking conflict. Greg and William review and discuss Remer's book Kriegshetze gegen Deutschland.…