Trudy Gold
Death of a Tyrant: The World of Adolf Hitler
Summary
79 years ago on the 30th of April, Adolf Hitler committed suicide, but the impact of the evil he unleashed is still with us today. Trudy Gold asks, what were the ideas and forces that created the monster? In this lecture, she examines how easily the democratic process was overturned to create a totalitarian regime ruled through the iron will of a man committed to creating a Germanic Empire based on war, race and bloodline.
Trudy Gold
Trudy Gold was the CEO of the London Jewish Cultural Centre and a founding member of the British delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Throughout her career she taught modern Jewish history at schools, universities, and to adult groups and ran seminars on Holocaust education in the UK, Eastern Europe, and China. She also led Jewish educational tours all over the world. Trudy was the educational director of the student resources “Understanding the Holocaust” and “Holocaust Explained” and the author of The Timechart History of Jewish Civilization.
That is a very contentious issue. We know that it was burnt down by a Dutch anarchist, a man called Marinus van der Lubbe. I think the latest scholarship is they didn’t, but boy, did they benefit from it.
Have you got 25 hours, Tim? I’ve given lectures on the history of anti-Semitism. I suggest just go to the website.
He adored his mother, he hated his father. His mother died when he was young. He took in his half-sister Angela as his housekeeper. Probably the one love of his life was his niece Geli. And she committed, she became his mistress. Evidently he had very strange sexual practises. There are loads of books on that as well if you’re interested, Dark Side of the Moon. And she committed suicide. He was a very dark, dislocated character.