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37 - Walter Benjamin: The Genius the Nazis Wanted Dead | History Documentary

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History After Dark

Episodes

Walter Benjamin: The Genius the Nazis Wanted Dead | History Documentary

Toussaint Louverture: The Military Genius Who Broke the French Empire

Patrice Lumumba: The Most Dangerous Man in Africa | A Bedtime History Documentary

How Hannah Arendt Exposed How Evil Really Works | A Bedtime History Story

Frantz Fanon: The Doctor Who Defeated An Empire | A Bedtime History Documentary

Fidel Castro: The Revolutionary Who Defied the American Empire | A Bedtime History Documentary

How Ho Chi Minh Defeated the American Empire | A Bedtime History Documentary

The Madness and Genius of Leo Tolstoy | A Bedtime History Documentary

How the Industrial Revolution Changed Humanity Forever | A Bedtime History Documentary

How Napoleon Conquered Europe and Lost Everything | A Bedtime History Documentary

How Malcolm X Became the Most Dangerous Man in America | A Bedtime History Documentary

How the Russian Revolution Broke the World | A Bedtime History Documentary

How Adam Smith Accidentally Invented the Modern World | A Bedtime History Documentary

Rosa Luxemburg: The Darkest Betrayal in History | A Bedtime History Documentary

Why the West Wanted Venezuela Destroyed | A History Documentary

How Nietzsche Destroyed Philosophy Forever | A History Documentary

The Communist Manifesto: The Most Dangerous Book in History | A History Documentary on Marx and Engels

Why They Couldn't Break Nelson Mandela | A History Documentary

Why Theodor Adorno's Darkest Ideas Were Right | A Bedtime History Documentary

Why Mussolini Feared Antonio Gramsci | A Bedtime History Documentary

Everything You Know About Early Human History is Wrong | A Bedtime History Documentary

How Gandhi Changed the World Forever | A Bedtime History Documentary

How Vladimir Lenin Changed Russia Forever | A Bedtime History Documentary

How Colonialism Changed the World Forever | A Bedtime History Documentary

How Abraham Lincoln Changed America Forever | A Bedtime History Documentary

How Karl Marx Changed the World Forever | Bedtime History Stories

The Unforgivable Life of Joseph Stalin | A Bedtime History Documentary

What Daily Life Was Really Like in the Soviet Union | A Bedtime History Documentary

How Sigmund Freud Changed Humanity Forever | A Bedtime History Documentary

Mark Fisher: How We Became Trapped in Capitalist Realism

How Mao Changed China Forever | A Bedtime History Documentary

How Frida Kahlo Changed Art Forever | A Bedtime History Story

How Capitalism Changed the World Forever | A Bedtime History Documentary

The Tragic Genius of Leon Trotsky | A Bedtime History Documentary

How Che Guevara Became a Revolutionary Icon | Bedtime History Stories

Why Carl Jung's Ideas Still Haunt Us

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