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Podcast ep. 4: The Exhilaration and Peril of Covering the Nazis (Audio Only)
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Podcast ep. 4: The Exhilaration and Peril of Covering the Nazis (Audio Only)

Professor Michael Socolow visits to discuss the American journalists who reported from inside the Third Reich

Last week, I posted my interview with Dr. Michael Socolow as both video (for paid subscribers) and audio (for everyone), but I am realizing that the audio is not super intuitive to find (there’s a little icon of headphones on the left). So I’m reposting the audio now, so it is available to everyone.


I had a chance to sit down with Dr. Michael Socolow, a professor in the Communications and Journalism Department at the University of Maine.

An expert on the history of radio, he is also the author of a book on the 1936 Olympics, Six Minutes in Berlin Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics.

We had a great conversation that touched on a number of fascinating tidbits:

  • What Americans did and didn’t know about Nazi Germany in the 1930s

  • One of the greatest scoops in the history of journalism

  • Evading censorship in Nazi Germany

  • The revolution in German radio in the 1930s

  • The challenges of getting rich as an author in mid-century America

  • Socolow’s own adventures covering three Olympic games

  • Starting his own career covering the O.J. Simpson trial

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