{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Ill Literacy: Books with Benson","title":"Ill Literacy, Episode 179: Out of the Darkness (Guest: Frank Trentmann)","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/2512124d\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4582,"description":"Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Frank Trentmann, professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London, to discuss his latest book, Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942–2022. They chat about how a nation whose past has been marked by mass murder, a people who cheered Adolf Hitler, reinvented themselves, and by how much. \nGet the book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/554959/out-of-the-darkness-by-frank-trentmann/\n\nShow Notes:\n\nLiterary Review: David Blackbourn – “A Mercedes in Every Garage”\nhttps://literaryreview.co.uk/a-mercedes-in-every-garage\n\nNew York Review of Books: Timothy Garton Ash – “Big Germany, What Now?”\nhttps://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/big-germany-what-now-timothy-garton-ash/\n\nThe New Statesman: Brendan Simms – “What it means to be German”\nhttps://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2023/12/meaning-modern-germany-brenadan-simms\n\nThe Times: Oliver Moody – “Out of the Darkness by Frank Trentmann review — how Germans became good (and rather complacent)”\nhttps://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/out-of-the-darkness-by-frank-trentmann-review-9rc5n8kbd?region=global\n\nTimes Literary Supplement: Ben Hutchinson – “New moral order”\nhttps://www.the-tls.co.uk/history/twentieth-century-onwards-history/after-the-nazis-michael-h-kater-out-of-the-darkness-frank-trentmann-book-review-ben-hutchinson\n\nThe Wall Street Journal: Ian Brunskill – “‘Out of the Darkness’ Review: War Crimes and Remembrance”\nhttps://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/out-of-the-darkness-review-war-crimes-and-remembrance-0b830556\n\nThe Washington Post: Bryn Stole – “An ambitious history of Germany interrogates the country’s moral makeover”\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/04/18/out-darkness-germans-nazis-legacy-frank-trentmann-review/","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/kNYd03PWLsrhW1fapjuL69XCID7ipQAh8UAmtQYE_W0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM2NzM4LzE2Njk4/MzU0NzktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}