225 Episodes

  1. No Mojo in my Dojo - Next episode in a Week

    Published: 10/9/2025
  2. Ep. 209 – The First Habsburg Emperor

    Published: 10/2/2025
  3. Ep. 208 - Boy Meets Princess, Boy Becomes King (Albrecht II)

    Published: 9/25/2025
  4. Ep.207 Of Land and Lip – How the Habsburgs got their Chin

    Published: 9/18/2025
  5. Ep. 206 – Division, Destruction and Degradation - Albrecht III&IV, Wilhelm, Leopold IV and Friedrich IV

    Published: 9/11/2025
  6. Ep. 205 – Sempach – the Death of a Duke and the Birth of a Nation

    Published: 9/4/2025
  7. Ep. 204 – Rudolf IV, Founder and Forger (1339-1365)

    Published: 8/28/2025
  8. Ep. 203 – From Rudolf I to Albrecht the Wise 1273-1358

    Published: 8/21/2025
  9. The Fall and Rise of the House of Habsburg - Trailer

    Published: 8/14/2025
  10. Guest Episode: A History of Italy on "A German Priest and a New Emperor"

    Published: 8/7/2025
  11. Guest Episode: History Rage talks to Roger Moorhouse about Stauffenberg

    Published: 7/31/2025
  12. Ep. 202 - Arms and Armour

    Published: 7/24/2025
  13. Ep. 201 – Mapping the World, or how Germans invented America

    Published: 7/17/2025
  14. Ep. 200 – Divide and Lose, the Leipziger Teilung

    Published: 7/3/2025
  15. Ep. 199 – How Holland was Lost to the Holy Roman Empire (Part 2 - the Economy)

    Published: 6/26/2025
  16. Ep. 198 – How Holland was Lost to the Holy Roman Empire (Part 1 - the Politics)

    Published: 6/19/2025
  17. Ep. 197 – The Landshuter Hochzeit – Love and War in Bavaria (Part 2)

    Published: 6/12/2025
  18. Ep. 196 – Agnes Bernauer - Love and War in Bavaria – (Part 1)

    Published: 6/5/2025
  19. The Berliner - A Filling Episode

    Published: 5/29/2025
  20. Ep. 195 – Engraving the German Renaissance

    Published: 5/22/2025

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A narrative history of the German people from the Middle Ages to Reunification in 1991. Episodes are 25-35 min long and drop on Thursday mornings. "A great many things keep happening, some good, some bad". Gregory of Tours (539-594) HotGPod is now entering its 9th season. So far we have covered: Ottonian Emperors (# 1- 21) - Henry the Fowler (#1) - Otto I (#2-8) - Otto II (#9-11) - Otto II (#11-14) - Henry II (#15-17) - Germany in 1000 (#18-21) Salian Emperors(#22-42) - Konrad II (#22- 25) - Henry III (#26-29) - Henry IV/Canossa (#30-39) - Henry V (#40-42) - Concordat of Worms (#42) Early Hohenstaufen (#43-69) - Lothar III (#43-46) - Konrad III (#47-49) - Frederick Barbarossa (#50-69) Late Hohenstaufen (#70-94) - Henry VI (#70-72) - Philipp of Swabia (#73-74) - Otto IV (#74-75) - Frederick II (#75-90) - Epilogue (#91-94) Eastern Expansion (#95-108) The Hanseatic League (#109-127) The Teutonic Knights (#128-137) The Interregnum and the early Habsburgs (#138 ff - Rudolf von Habsburg (#139-141) - Adolf von Nassau (#142) - Albrecht von Habsburg (#143) - Heinrich VII (#144-148) - Ludwig the Bavarian (#149-153) - Karl IV (#154-163) The Reformation before the Reformation - Wenceslaus the Lazy (#165) - The Western Schism (#166/167) - The Ottomans (#168) - Sigismund (#169-