WD Snodgrass - Who was Magda Goebbels? (44/99)
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American poet WD Snodgrass won several awards including the Pulitzer Prize for his first collection of poetry, "Hearts Needle". His controversial fifth anthology "The Führer Bunker" received heavy criticism but in recent years their importance has been recognised. [Listener: William B. Patrick]
TRANSCRIPT: She's… she's giving her six poison… her… her six children poison. She had a… she had an earlier child by her first husband and in… in a way she is the most horrifying person there to me. I mean I'm kind of used to the idea that… that the rulers probably want to… are perfectly willing to kill off all… everybody they rule, they… they don't worry about things like that. But yeah, and… and I saw what she was doing in several ways parallel. She was… she…she was a woman who had been elaborately unfaithful. She had been raised by a Jewish stepfather who was very kind to her and… and treated her beautifully. She met a rich industrialist whom she wanted to marry. In order to do that she had to foreswear that man who had taken care of her, and her Jewish faith. She now became a Catholic, if I'm… if I'm not mistaken, and I may be.
Well, within a few… within a matter of weeks he found her in bed with a young student. This did not please him. He was going… he was going to divorce her. He made only one mistake; he didn't hide his tax books. Uh, uh, which means she was a very rich divorcee. I mean she came… she came out of the settlement with just fabulous amounts of money, went to Berlin, had nothing to do, looked around for a cause, joined the Nazi party. She sort… she fell for Hitler. She talked with some of the people in the… in the Party, and they said well no, no, no, we can't arrange that, you… no, nah, uh, uh, uh. What… what we can do though is for instance, if you would marry somebody like Goebbels, then things can always be finessed.
American poet WD Snodgrass won several awards including the Pulitzer Prize for his first collection of poetry, "Hearts Needle". His controversial fifth anthology "The Führer Bunker" received heavy criticism but in recent years their importance has been recognised. [Listener: William B. Patrick]
TRANSCRIPT: She's… she's giving her six poison… her… her six children poison. She had a… she had an earlier child by her first husband and in… in a way she is the most horrifying person there to me. I mean I'm kind of used to the idea that… that the rulers probably want to… are perfectly willing to kill off all… everybody they rule, they… they don't worry about things like that. But yeah, and… and I saw what she was doing in several ways parallel. She was… she…she was a woman who had been elaborately unfaithful. She had been raised by a Jewish stepfather who was very kind to her and… and treated her beautifully. She met a rich industrialist whom she wanted to marry. In order to do that she had to foreswear that man who had taken care of her, and her Jewish faith. She now became a Catholic, if I'm… if I'm not mistaken, and I may be.
Well, within a few… within a matter of weeks he found her in bed with a young student. This did not please him. He was going… he was going to divorce her. He made only one mistake; he didn't hide his tax books. Uh, uh, which means she was a very rich divorcee. I mean she came… she came out of the settlement with just fabulous amounts of money, went to Berlin, had nothing to do, looked around for a cause, joined the Nazi party. She sort… she fell for Hitler. She talked with some of the people in the… in the Party, and they said well no, no, no, we can't arrange that, you… no, nah, uh, uh, uh. What… what we can do though is for instance, if you would marry somebody like Goebbels, then things can always be finessed.
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