History of the Germans
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History of the Germans

by Dirk Hoffmann-Becking

Category
History
Frequency
Weekly series
Language
English
A narrative history of the German people from the Middle Ages to Reunification in 1991. Episodes are 25-35 min long and drop on Thursday mornings. "A great many things keep happening, some good, some bad". Gregory of Tours (539-594) HotGPod is now entering its 9th season. So far we have covered: Ottonian Emperors (# 1- 21) - Henry the Fowler (#1) - Otto I (#2-8) - Otto II (#9-11) - Otto II (#11-14) - Henry II (#15-17) - Germany in 1000 (#18-21) Salian Emperors(#22-42) - Konrad II (#22- 25) - ...

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Recent Reviews

Quite a good podcast but...

Anomaj5/25/2026

Very solid history podcast but the occasional references to modern politics are unhelpful and a bit jarring when they come up. Enjoying it quite a lot so far aside from that one point.

Just right, good info and char

Doug vanderHoof5/5/2026

Recommended by John Yohalem, I started listening and it is wonderful. Good for someone who knows a little bit and wants to know a lot more.

Great Content!

IndyMikeBB3/15/2026

I love history podcasts and this is one of the best in a complex swirl of competing interests internally and externally. He takes a swipe at Trump, but nobody is perfect. Highly recommend!

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P-Fac1/28/2026

I love the show, I’d very much love to hear the long history of Alsace, in particular the northeast portion near wissembourg and how it fell under French control in the 1600s

THIS IS AMAZING

jabe51712/9/2025

It’s very well written love the dry sense of humor it doesn’t miss a thing it’s the best podcast I’ve found so far by a lot I wait for every Thursday for me and some of my friends and family to enjoy it my mother has a very stressful job and it helps her a lot one of the main thing I’m asking for Christmas is a history of the Germans membership my friends all come over after school and we all listen together commenting and laughing at some of the awesome jokes you make and then act totally normal about it -written by my son (to all those people out there who are upset about bios everyone has a bios but it’s good he’s making his bios clear so you know what to filter out of your view of history so suck it up) (to those complaining about the fact that he talked about Elon musk doing the hitler salute as a descendent of holocaust survivors it’s very sensitive and if he didn’t condemn musk for it then that would be allowing a direct attack on a Jewish sense of security!)