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Old Gossip with Rebecca Siegel

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Albert Speer Was a Narc Jul 30, 2026

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Hello, best friends, divas, and unicorns! Let’s talk about history's worst "good Nazi," Albert Speer, who started his career as an architect, and then ended it by throwing a bunch of his cronies under the bus at the Nuremberg Trials. He was a delusional dreamer, a AND a war criminal! Wow, wow, wow.

Trigger warnings: Suicide, Holocaust, Slave Labor, Antisemitism

Cover art: My sister

Intro song: My daughter

Selected Bibliography

“Building the Nazi Party Rally Grounds,”

https://museums.nuernberg.de/documentation-center/topics/national-socialism/the-nazi-party-rally-grounds/building-the-nazi-party-rally-grounds

Killing Hitler, by Roger Moorhouse

Hitler (Ascent and Downfall), by Volker Ullrich

The Hitler Assassination Attempts, by John Grehan

“’Wonder Weapons’ and Slave Labor,” by Michael Neufeld https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/wonder-weapons-and-slave-labor

Image credits: Getty

Rudolf Hess Wore a Fashion Monocle Jul 23, 2026

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Ready to get into the weeds? Let’s talk Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, a couple of world wars, astrology, the Beerhall Putsch, libido pills, scientific occultism, and the Nuremberg Trials, among other things.

Trigger warnings: Holocaust, Suicide, Antisemitism

Cover art: My sister

Intro song: My daughter

Selected Bibliography

Hitler (Ascent and Downfall), by Volker Ullrich

Hitler’s Monsters, by Eric Kurlander

Hitler’s People, by Richard J. Evans

The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, Jack El-Hai

Nazi Wives, by James Wyllie

Nuremberg Trial Proceedings, Yale Avalon Project

Joachim von Ribbentrop liked Carnations Jul 16, 2026

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Buckle up, besties! We’ve got romance. We’ve got intrigue. We’ve got the royal family! Join me to gossip about Edward VIII, his mistress-turned-wife, Wallis Simpson, and her Nazi boyfriend, Joachim von Ribbentrop. We’ll talk Hitler, we’ll talk incompetence, and we’ll talk terrible choices in flowers.

Trigger warnings: Holocaust, Suicide, Addiction, Antisemitism

Cover art: My sister

Intro song: My daughter

Selected bibliography

17 Carnations, Andrew Morton

Hitler (Ascent and Downfall), by Volker Ullrich

Hitler’s People, by Richard J. Evans

Nazi Wives, by James Wyllie

Image credits: Getty

Joseph Goebbels Wrote Terrible Poetry Jul 09, 2026

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Hi besties! Let's talk about WWII, Nazis, Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Magda Goebbels, Lida Baarova, and so much more.

Trigger warnings: Sexual Assault, Suicide, Filicide, Holocaust

Cover art: My sister

Intro song: My daughter

Selected bibliography

Goebbels, by Helmut Heiber

Goebbels, Peter Longrich

Hitler (Ascent and Downfall), by Volker Ullrich

Hitler’s People, by Richard J. Evans

Nazi Wives, by James Wyllie

Image credits: National Archives and Getty

Hermann Göring Wore Silky PJs Jul 02, 2026

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Let's talk about WWII, Nazis, Hitler, Hermann Goering, fashion, makeup, and some very problematic drug use!

Trigger warnings: Addiction, Holocaust

Cover art: My sister

Intro song: My daughter

Selected bibliography

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich, by Normal Ohler
"Gay Men under the Nazi Regime," USHMM
Goering, the Rise and Fall of the Notorious Nazi Leader, by Roger Manuel and Heinrich Fraenkel
"Goring,: The Nazi Lion Tamer," by John Gunther, Vanity Fair, Volume 43-45, 1935
Hitler, by Volker Ulrich
Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany, by Jame Willie