Hitler’s Olympics Part 1: The Blue-Eyed Tornado | Revisionist History | Malcolm Gladwell

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In the early 1930s, Adolf Hitler granted a rare interview to the American journalist Dorothy Thompson. When Hitler later came to power, and prepared to stage the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Thompson’s warning about the man she’d met would frame the central debate over the games: Should we go? 

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ABOUT HITLER'S OLYMPICS SERIES
Adolf Hitler swept to power in Germany in the early 1930s and soon set out to stage the most extravagant and spectacular summer Olympics yet: the 1936 Berlin Games. And countries around the world dutifully put together their teams and made the trip to Germany. Why?

In this new nine-part series Hitler’s Olympics, Malcolm Gladwell and Ben Naddaff-Hafrey explore the games behind the Games, the most consequential Olympics in history. Along the way, they meet a collection of the world’s daffiest aristocrats. A couple of American construction moguls. A legendary triple-jumper. And one discerning journalist.

Heroes and villains. The clear-eyed and the deluded. All of them going to Hitler’s Olympics.

Hitler’s Olympics launches June 27th. Subscribe to Pushkin Plus now to hear the first five episodes on launch day, or listen for new episodes every Thursday for the next nine weeks.

ABOUT REVISIONIST HISTORY
Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell’s journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every podcast episode re-examines something from the past — an event, a person, an idea, even a song — and asks whether we got it right the first time. Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance.

ABOUT MALCOLM GLADWELL
Malcolm Gladwell is president and co-founder of Pushkin Industries. He is a journalist, a speaker, and the author of six New York Times bestsellers including The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and Talking to Strangers. He has been a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1996. He is a trustee of the Surgo Foundation and currently serves on the board of the RAND Corporation.

ABOUT PUSHKIN INDUSTRIES
Pushkin Industries is an audio production company dedicated to creating premium content in a collaborative environment. Co-founded by Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg in 2018, Pushkin has launched seven new shows into the top 10 on Apple Podcasts (Against the Rules, The Happiness Lab, Solvable, Cautionary Tales, Deep Cover, The Last Archive, and Lost Hills), in addition to producing the hugely successful Revisionist History. Pushkin’s growing audiobook catalogue includes includes the bestselling biography “Fauci,” by Michael Specter, “Hasta La Vista, America,” Kurt Andersen’s parody Trump farewell speech performed by Alec Baldwin, "Takeover" by Noah Feldman, and “Talking to Strangers,” from Pushkin co-founder Malcolm Gladwell. Pushkin is dedicated to producing audio in any format that challenges listeners and inspires curiosity and joy.

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Yeah, also looking forward to the series. There is a magical quality to your voice that sings along a story. Thanks!

UsualYaddaYadda
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compelling, fascinating and entertaining. thank you MG and team.

AH-wrir
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New to this series after hearing about it from your interview on X an Ironclad podcast. Really enjoyed this episode. Going to listen to the second one straight away. Can’t wait for the other to come.

michaellamonica
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Thank you Malcolm from Ottawa Canada 🇨🇦💞

mariacosta
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2:13 "a nation that wishes to dominate the world...."

great britain? the US?

mito
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My father sold vacuum cleaners for a living. After watching him a couple of times making the sale, I learned how NOT to be manipulated. Best lesson I ever learned.

spankduncan
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Yikes! I love the Olympic too! I’m sad to hear a Nazi connection😢. Thank you for the podcast!

rkuo
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How could you reel off Montreal Olympics stars w/out mentioning Bruce Jenner?

WNH
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This podcast seems offensive somehow with of course his signature pretentiousness. Is this guy telling me that we can’t look up all the shit he did?

Also…Great. More Nazi content. Might as well watch the history channel. Idk if Malcolm has that channel. They have definitely done an episode on this. NOT 10. He said he barely had a tv. Sad!

allanmargolin