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#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles
Lex Fridman Podcast
3 hours 30 minutes 56 seconds
3 months ago
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles
James Holland is a historian specializing in World War II. He hosts a podcast called WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk.
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) - Introduction
(00:34) - Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections
(07:25) - World War II
(17:23) - Lebensraum and Hitler ideology
(24:36) - Operation Barbarossa
(40:49) - Hitler vs Europe
(1:02:35) - Joseph Goebbels
(1:12:29) - Hitler before WW2
(1:17:25) - Hitler vs Chamberlain
(1:39:31) - Invasion of Poland
(1:44:07) - Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
(1:52:09) - Winston Churchill
(2:16:09) - Most powerful military in WW2
(2:38:31) - Tanks
(2:48:30) - Battle of Stalingrad
(3:01:21) - Concentration camps
(3:10:53) - Battle of Normandy
(3:24:45) - Lessons from WW2
Conversations about science, technology, history, philosophy and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power. Lex is an AI researcher at MIT and beyond.
