There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/
Part One: Bobby Fischer: Chess Nazi
Mia Wong is joined by Robert Evans to talk about the most famous chess player the US has ever produced.
(Two Part Series)
FOOTNOTES:
https://www.routledge.com/Balkan-Babel-The-Disintegration-Of-Yugoslavia-From-The-Death-Of-Tito-To/Ramet/p/book/9780813339054
https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess2/pasad.htm
https://everything2.com/title/Bizarre+anti-Semitic+interview+with+Bobby+Fischer
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41887632
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300192582/genocide-on-the-drina-river/
https://www.bbc.com/serbian/lat/srbija-61926384
https://archive.is/SqmDV
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/04/02/serb-banks-face-run-by-depositors/5bdbec03-e67c-4fd0-a03d-fe83d4f2ad86/
https://archive.is/hyXe6
https://en.chessbase.com/post/listen-to-bobby-fischer
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/creativity-movement-0
https://en.chessbase.com/post/alekhine-and-the-nazis-a-historical-investigation-by-dr-christian-rohrer
https://www.chessmaniac.com/Bobby_Fischer/fischer_interview_12092001.shtml
https://chess24.com/en/read/news/karpov-at-70-my-great-blunder-was-i-agreed-to-hold-the-match-with-kasparov-in-the-soviet-union
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/12/bobby-fischer-s-pathetic-endgame/302634/
https://archive.is/BUs7J
https://www.jta.org/archive/chess-king-bobby-fischer-erupts-in-spate-of-anti-semitic-remarks
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