History of the Germans

By Dirk Hoffmann-Becking
The podcast that does what it says on the tin: a narrative history of the German people that starts in the year 919 AD and hopes to get all the way to 1991. Episodes are 25-35 min long and drop on Thursday mornings. As Gregory of Tours (539-594) said: "A great many things keep happening, some good, some bad" .
The show is now entering its 8th season. So far we have covered:
The Ottonian Emperors (Ep. 1- 21)
- Henry the Fowler (Ep. 1)
- Otto I (Ep. 2-8)
- Otto II (Ep.9-11)
- Otto II (Ep. 11-14)
- Henry II (ep. 15-17)
- Germany in the Year 1000 (ep. 18-21)
The Salier and the Investiture Controversy
- Konrad II (Ep. 22- 25)
- Henry III (Ep. 26-29)
- Henry IV & Canossa (Ep. 30-39)
- Henry V and the Concordat of Worms (Ep. 40-42)
Barbarossa and the early Hohenstaufen
- Lothar III (Ep. 43-46)
- Konrad III (Ep. 47-49)
- Frederick Barbarossa (Ep. 50-69)
Frederick II and the later Hohenstaufen
-Henry VI (Ep. 70-72)
- Philipp of Swabia (Ep. 73-74)
- Otto IV (Ep. 74-75)
- Frederick II (Ep. 75-90)
- Epilogue (ep. 91-94)
Eastern Expansion (ep. 95-108)
The Hanseatic League (Ep. 109-127)
The Teutonic Knights (Ep. 128-137)
The Interregnum and the early Habsburgs (Ep. 138 ff

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