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EPISODE · Jan 7, 2021 · 28 MIN

Turnbull's legacy, and 75 years after Hitler's death: who did he really see as the enemy?

from Between the Lines · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Weighing up Turnbull’s legacyFormer Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull recently published his memoir A Bigger Picture.  In it he settles old scores with colleagues over his 2018 ousting, which he describes as an “act of madness.”What is his legacy, and how will history judge our nation’s twenty ninth Prime Minister?Jacqueline Maley, columnist at The Sydney Morning Herald.Jennifer Oriel, columnist at The AustralianAnd, the death of a führerApril 2020 marked seventy-five years since Hitler’s suicide. Cambridge historian Brendan Simms challenges past scholarship on the führer, and argues that Hitler saw Anglo-American global capitalism, not Bolshevism – as Germany’s real enemy. He says this philosophical link reveals worrying connections between Hitler and the rise of populism today.Brendan Simms, Professor in the History of International Relations at Cambridge University, and author of Hitler: Only the World was Enough.

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