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History of the Germans Podcast

A captivating, easily digestible account of German history. The bite-sized 25 minute episodes are packed with fascinating, often surprising, details about the foundation of the German nation.

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  • Seasons
    • Prologue (58BC-918AD)
    • The Ottonian Emperors (919-1024)
      • Henry the Fowler (919-936)
      • Otto the Great (936-973)
      • Otto II (973-983)
      • Theophanu and Adelheid (983-994)
      • Germany in the Year 1000
      • Otto III (983-1002)
      • Henry II (1002-1024)
      • The Ottonians a Blank Canvas? and other questions
    • Salian Emperors & Investiture Controversy (1024-1125)
      • Konrad II (1024-1039)
      • Henry III (1039-1056)
      • Henry IV (1056-1105)
      • Henry V (1105-1125)
    • Barbarossa & The Early Hohenstaufen (1125-1194)
      • Lothar III – 1125-1138
      • Konrad III – 1138-1152
      • Frederick I Barbarossa – 1152-1190
    • Frederick II and The Later Hohenstaufen (1190-1258)
      • Henry VI – 1190-1197
      • Philipp von Schwaben / Otto IV – 1197-1214
      • Frederick II – 1196-1250
      • Epilogue
    • Saxony and Eastward Expansion (772-1400)
    • The Hanseatic League (1143-1669)
    • The Teutonic Knights (1190-1525)
    • From the Interregnum to the Golden Bull (1250-1356)
      • Rudolf von Habsburg (1273-1291)
      • Adolf von Nassau (1292-1298)
      • Albrecht von Habsburg (1298-1308)
      • Heinrich VII (1308-1313)
      • Ludwig der Bayer (1314-1348)
      • Karl IV (1346-1378)
    • The Reformation before the Reformation
      • Wenceslaus the Lazy
      • The Emperor Sigismund
      • The Great Western Schism
    • The Empire in the 15th Century
    • The Fall and Rise of the House of Habsburg (1308-1519)
  • All Episodes
    • The Ottonian Emperors (919-1024)
      • Episode 1 – A new Beginning
      • Episode 2 – A Dog’s breakfast
      • Episode 3 – A Series of Fortunate Events
      • Episode 4 – A Foe Wherever You Go
      • Episode 5: The Father, the Son and the Uncle
      • Episode 6: A Conversation with Swords
      • Episode 7 – A New Caesar
      • Episode 8 – An Imperial Bride
      • Episode 9 – A Matter of Habit
      • Episode 10 – The Misfortunes one can endure…
      • Episode 11 – Woe to the Land that is Governed by a child…
      • Episode 12 – The Regency of Theophanu and Adelheid
      • Episode 13: Otto III – The wonder of the World
      • Episode 14 – Otto III The End of a Dream
      • Episode 15 – Germany in the year 1000 (Part 1)
      • Episode 16 – Germany in the year 1000 (Part 2)
      • Episode 17 – The (not yet holy) emperor Henry II
      • Episode 18 – Henry II goes forth!
      • Episode 19 – Henry II, the House of God
      • Episode 20 – A Blank Canvas
    • Salian Emperors & Investiture Controversy (1024-1125)
      • Episode 22 – Konrad II Who would have thought
      • Episode 23 – Duke Ernst Rebel and Legend
      • Episode 24 – Konrad II’s Acquisition of Burgundy
      • Episode 25 – Konrad II, the Construction of an Empire
      • Episode 26 – Henry III Comin’ in Smoothly
      • Episode 27 – Peace in Our Time
      • Episode 28 – Thre Popes with One Stone
      • Episode 29 – The last Years of Henry III
      • Episode 30 – The Three Roads to Canossa
      • Episode 31 – The (second) Saxon War
      • Episode 32 – Not Pope but False Monk
      • Episode 33 – Canossa Finally
      • Episode 34 – Gaining the Upper Hand
      • Episode 35 – To Rome, to Rome
      • Episode 36 – Henry IV is Coming Home
      • Episode 37 – The two Grooms
      • Episode 38 – The First Crusade
      • Episode 39 – The end of Emperor Henry IV
      • Episode 40 – Henry V’s cunning Plan
      • Episode 41 – the Duke’s Rebuke
      • Episode 42 – A World Revolution?
    • Barbarossa & The Early Hohenstaufen (1125-1194)
      • Episode 43 – All Change All Change
      • Episode 44 – A Saxon Emperor
      • Episode 45 – Triple division
      • Episode 46 – A Topsy turvy World
      • Episode 47 – Conrad’s Coup
      • Episode 48 – Conrad’s Conundrum
      • Episode 49 – Conrad’s CatastrophE
      • Episode 50 – Barbarossa begins
      • Episode 51 – The Barbarossa
      • Episode 52 – The Honour of The Empire
      • Episode 53 – Sacrum Imperium
      • Episode 54 – A Bohemian bluff
      • Episode 55 – The Laws of Roncaglia
      • Episode 56 – The Siege of Crema
      • Episode 57 – The Hand of God
      • Episode 58 – The Lombard League
      • Episode 59 – The City of Straw
      • Episode 60 – Legnano
      • Episode 61 – The Peace of Venice
      • Episode 62 – The Fall of henry the Lion
      • Episode 63 – Recovery
      • Episode 64 – The heirs of Troy
      • Episode 65 – The Third Crusade
      • Episode 66 – The Myths of Barbarossa
      • Episode 67 Germany in the year 1200 – The Peasants
    • Frederick II and The Later Hohenstaufen (1190-1258)
      • Episode 70 – From Father to Son
      • Episode 71 – To Catch a King
      • Episode 72 – Clouds on teh horizon
      • Episode 73 – One Pope, Three Emperors
      • Episode 74 – A Breaking of Oaths
      • Episode 75 – Wet Pants and Other Miracles
      • Episode 76 – Urchin to Emperor
      • Episode 77 – A NAil in the Coffin
      • Episode 78 – A Crusade without Crusaders
      • Episode 79 – Return to Sicily
      • Episode 80 – A different kind of Emperor
      • Episode 81 – The King in Brackets
      • Episode 82 – The Constitution of the Realm
      • Episode 83 – The Court of Frederick II
      • Episode 84 – The Art of Hunting with Birds
      • Episode 85 – Cortenuova
      • Episode 86 – Oops, we did it Again
      • Episode 87 – The Beast out of the Sea
      • Episode 88 – A Road to Peace
      • Episode 89 – Holy War
      • Episode 90 – Things Are Falling Apart
      • Episode 91 – Hohenstaufen Epilogue
      • Episode 92 – Papal Epilogue
      • Episode 93 – Frederick II’s Afterlife
    • Saxony and Eastward Expansion (772-1400)
      • Episode 95 – Callous Kings and Murderous MArgraves
      • Episode 96 – Meet the Neighbours
      • Episode 97 – Rebellio
      • Episode 98 – The Rift
      • Episode 99 – Follow the Money
      • Episode 100 – The Saxon War (Take II)
      • Episode 101 – Gottschalk & Adalbert
      • Episode 102 – The Great Divide
      • Episode 103 – All the Duke’s men
      • EPISODE 104 – The Making of Holstein
      • Episode 105 – The foundation of Lübeck
      • Episode 106 – Making A Mark in Brandenburg
      • Episode 107 – The House of Wettin
      • Episode 108 – From Saxony to Saxonies
    • The Hanseatic League (1143-1669)
      • Episode 109 – The Gotlandfahrer
      • Episode 110 – Livonian Cities
      • Episode 111: Hewing and Herring
      • Episode 112 – Grain and Beer
      • Episode 113 – Bergen & Bruges
      • Episode 114 – The London Steelyard
      • Episode 115 – War with Denmark Part 1
      • Episode 116 – War with Denmark Part 2
      • Episode 117 – Embargoes
      • Episode 118 – Pirates
      • Epiosde 119 – What was the Hansa
      • Episode 120– Money, Money, Money
      • Episode 121 – A Constitutional Crisis
      • Episode 122– Calamitous Victories
      • Episode 123– Decline & Fall (Part 1)
      • Episode 124– Decline & Fall (Part 2)
      • Episode 125 – The Rise of Hamburg
      • Episode 126 – A Brief History of Bremen
      • Episode 127 – Art & Culture of the Hanse
    • The Teutonic Knights (1190-1525)
      • EPISODE 128 – A Chivalric order
      • EPISODE 129 – Hermann von Salza
      • EPISODE 130 – The Conquest of Prussia (Part I)
      • Episode 131 – The Conquest of Prussia (Part II)
      • Episode 132– The Battle on the Ice
      • Episode 133– The Order of the Order
      • Episode 134– Tannenberg / Grunwald / Zalgiris
      • Episode 135– After Tannenberg
      • Episode 136– 13 years of war
      • Episode 137– Conversion
    • From the Interregnum to the Golden Bull (1250-1356)
      • Catch-up episode – The Holy Roman empire from 919 – 1250
      • Episode 139 – The End of the Interregnum
      • Episode 140 – Rudolf von Habsburg and the Golden King Ottokar II of Bohemia
      • Episode 141 – Rudolf von Habsburg Semper Augustus
      • Episode 142 – Adolf von Nassau
      • Episode 143 – The Murder of a King
      • Episode 144 – The Rise of the House of Luxemburg
      • Episode 145 – How to make Friends and Influence People
      • Episode 146 – The Return of the King
      • Episode 147 – Brescia or Bust
      • Episode 148 – Imperial Swansong
      • Episode 149 – The Real Ludwig of Bavaria
      • Episode 150 – The Last Chivalric Battles
      • Episode 151 – Kurverein zu Rhens
      • Episode 152 – The (not so) Ugly Duchess
      • Episode 153– The Rise of Nürnberg
      • Episode 154– The Blind King John of Bohemia
      • Episode 155– The Youth of Emperor Karl IV
      • Episode 156 – What price for a crown
      • Episode 157 – The Black Death and other Calamities
      • Episode 158 – Prague – A new Rome
      • Episode 159 – The rise to Imperial Power
      • Episode 160 – The Golden Bull of 1356
      • Episode 161 – A Luxemburg Empire
      • Episode 162 – Schisms and Deals
      • Episode 163 – Succession and Legacy
    • The Reformation before the Reformation
      • Episode 164 – The Reformation before the Reformation
      • Episode 165 – Wenceslaus the Lazy and Ruprecht of the Empty Pocket
      • Episode 166/167 – The Great Western Schism – Parts 1 and 2
      • Episode 168 – From Osman to Nicopolis: The Rise of the Ottoman Empire
      • Episode 169 – Sigismund, not yet Emperor
      • Episode 170 – Jan Hus, Reformer and rebel?
      • Episode 171 – Cleaning House
      • Episode 172 – A World Event
      • Episode 173 – Ending the Schism
      • Episode 174 – The Trial of Jan Hus
      • Episode 175 – Death and Defenestration
      • Episode 176 – A Great Idiot of History
      • Episode 177 – The Day after the End of Days
      • Episode 178 – No Hill to Die On
      • Episode 179 – Meanwhile in the Empire
      • Episode 180 – Nude Dissenters and Blind Innovators
      • Episode 181 – Zizka’s Drum
      • Episode 182 – The Return of the King
      • Episode 183 – The Aftermath of a Revolution
      • Episode 184 – A German Messalina? Barbara of Celje
    • The Empire in the 15th Century
      • The Empire in the 15th Century – Season Opener
      • Episode 186 – Origin Stories
      • Episode 187 – Johannes Gutenberg’s Pressing Matters
      • Episode 188 – What Has Printing Ever Done For Us?
      • Episode 189 – The Count Palatine on the Rhine
      • Episode 190 – A (very) brief History of the German Universities
      • Episode 191 – The Margraviate of Baden
      • Episode 192 – Württemberg, or how to build a success
      • Episode 193– The Trades and Tribulations of the Free Imperial Cities
      • Episode 194– The Fuggers of Augsburg
      • Episode 195– Engraving the German Renaissance
      • Episode 196 – Agnes bernauer – Love and War in Bavaria (Part 1)
      • Episode 197 – The Landshuter Hochzeit – Love and War in Bavaria (Part 2)
      • Episode 198 – How Holland Was Lost to the Holy Roman Empire (Part 1)
      • Episode 199 – How Holland Was Lost to the Holy Roman Empire (Part 2)
      • Episode 200 – Divide and Lose
      • Episode 201 – Mapping the world
      • Episode 202 – Arms and Armour
    • The Fall and Rise of the House of Habsburg (1308-1519)
      • Episode 203 – From Rudolf I to Albrecht the Wise (1273-1358)
      • Episode 204 – Rudolf IV – Forger and Founder
      • Episode 205 – Sempach, Death of a Duke, Birth of a Nation
      • Episode 206 – Division, Destruction and Degradation
      • Episode 207 – Of Land and Lip
      • Episode 208 – Boy Meets Girl, Boy Becomes King
      • Episode 209 – The first Habsburg Emperor
      • Episode 210 – Ladislaus Postumus
      • Episode 211 – Hitting Rock Bottom
      • Episode 212 – The Library of the Raven King
      • Episode 213 – Duping a Grand Duke or the Awakening of Friedrich III
      • Episode 214 – A Trial, a Siege and more than Neuss
      • Episode 215 – The Bold in the Cold
      • Episode 216 – The Youth of Emperor Maximilian I
      • Episode 217 – When Mary Met Maxi
      • Episode 218 – Of Hedgehogs and Herons
      • Episode 219 – The Fall of Ghent
      • Episode 220 – The Burgundian Experience(s)
      • Episode 221 –Taking Back Control
      • Episode 222 –Italian Wars and Spanish Marriages
      • Episode 223 – A Diet of Worms (1495 Edition)
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      • Where To Go in Germany? (Part 1)
      • Where To Go in Germany ? (Part 2)
      • SOLD OUT! History of the Germans Tour
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