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Hosted by Thad & Robyn · history · EN-US
Left vs Right. Communism vs Capitalism. Democracy vs Dictator. Good vs Evil. Whole countries have traded in their old ways for new opportunities. Over the last 200 years the world has struggled with its identity - who are we and how do we want to live? These struggles continue today. History books show us an orderly account of who did what to whom and when. But behind those polished narratives, we find everyday people struggling to build a future for themselves and their children. These are the real, firsthand accounts of those people, in their all their raw messiness. This is our history.
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Signup to Generate a PitchLeft vs Right. Communism vs Capitalism. Democracy vs Dictator. Good vs Evil. Whole countries have traded in their old ways for new opportunities. Over the last 200 years the world has struggled with its identity - who are we and how do we want to live? These struggles continue today.
Messy History is hosted by Thad & Robyn. The show has published 13 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Long Live Freedom (Es lebe die Freiheit)" (30 October 2026, 46 minutes), "When the Russians Ran Auschwitz" (6 October 2026, 68 minutes), and "The World Turned Upside Down" (20 August 2026, 58 minutes).
Messy History publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 58 minutes across 13 episodes.
Booking probability for Messy History is 27%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Messy History requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Messy History's contact route on record: public web form.
Thad & Robyn hosts Messy History, a history podcast with 13 episodes published.
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On our one year anniversary, we talk about some of the stories we didn't tell, how we got here, and a hint of some things yet to come. Bibliography Weisse Rose Stiftung. I. Leaflet of the White Rose...
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Growing up in 1920's Munich, Marianne had an idyllic childhood. Of it she writes: "since both my parents worked as artists - Father was an academically trained sculptor and Mother an academically trained craft artist I...
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By the end of 1918, it was becoming apparent that Germany was not going to win The Great War, and that defeat would come at a price. At home, the Spartacus League looked at the apparent success of the Russian Revolution...
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"This is a dark day and a dark hour. The sword is being forced into my hand. This war will demand of us enormous sacrifice in life and money, but we shall show our foes what it is to provoke Germany." – Kaiser Wilhelm...
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<p>"This is a dark day and a dark hour. The sword is being forced into my hand. This war will demand of us enormous sacrifice in life and money, but we shall show our foes what it is to provoke Germany."<br/>– Kaiser...
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<p>Today is Gustav’s story - the daily account of a grandfather living on the German homefront during World War I. While the glorious war starts as “the greatest time of my life”, he worries about his son Ludwig...
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<p>Today we continue our conversation on life during the Russian Revolution and the Bolsheviks' ambitions for the country. Our primary account comes from Elfriede, a young woman living in Odessa, Ukraine when the...
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<p>What would you do if you woke up one day and suddenly found yourself an "enemy" of the people with whom you had grown up? In this episode, we follow the story of Anna's family - bourgeois Germans caught in Russia...
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<p>What's the difference between a diary and a memoir? In this episode, we take advantage of an opportunity to interview Christiane Weinzierl from the German Diary Archive in Emmendingen, Germany about diaries, memoirs...
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<p>The story of the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, and his family.</p><p>We discuss their early lives, marriage, and the challenges they faced, such as their son Alexei's hemophilia and the introduction of Rasputin...
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<p>That time China declared a war on drugs, and found themselves pitted against the narco traffickers of the 19th century - the British Empire. Welcome to the first Opium War.</p><p><br/></p><p><b>Image...
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<p>After Kristallnacht, there were few places still taking in Jews fleeing Nazi Germany. One of those was Shanghai, under Japanese occupation. When Japan entered the war as allies of Germany, the fate of these refugees...
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<p>A short except from a survivor of the Ukrainian Hunger Famines. In solemn remembrance of the millions who perished.</p><p>Source:</p><p>Execution By Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust, Miron Dolot, 1985</p><p><br/></p>
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<p>We discuss the experiences of Edward Adler, a Jewish man in 1930's Germany, as he describes growing anti-semitism, being forced to build one of the first extermination camps, and his narrow escape after...
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<p>Today we talk about Leopold II, King of Belgium from 1865-1909, and his personal empire in the African Congo. This is the story of a man who put his pocketbook ahead of a people, the nation he enslaved, and the...
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<p>We discuss the Kindertransport program through which around 10,000 children were saved from Nazi occupied Europe from November 1938 until German occupation of the Netherlands in 1940. </p><p><b>Image</b></p><p>A...
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