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Trudy Gold
Hitler: The Making of a Monster

Tuesday 22.02.2022

Summary

Trudy Gold takes a look at the influence of Hitler’s early years to better understand the makings of the world’s most destructive ideology.

Trudy Gold

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Trudy Gold was the CEO of the London Jewish Cultural Centre and a founding member of the British delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Throughout her career she taught modern Jewish history at schools, universities, and to adult groups and ran seminars on Holocaust education in the UK, Eastern Europe, and China. She also led Jewish educational tours all over the world. Trudy was the educational director of the student resources “Understanding the Holocaust” and “Holocaust Explained” and the author of The Timechart History of Jewish Civilization.

Not as far as we know. There are many, many books on Hitler’s sex life, and it’s a very dark area. He had a girlfriend after Geli died, of course, Eva Braun. But he was married to the German people. He got that from Karl Lueger. Karl Lueger never married because the women adored him.

Not on Hitler, but I know the IQ of all those at Nuremberg, because actually a Jewish psychologist, actually he performed IQ tests, not EQ tests. Wendy and I have often discussed this. EQ is far more important than IQ. Empathy. He obviously had no empathy whatsoever. I would imagine he was actually quite clever intellectually.

It’s a complicated story. There’ve been documentaries on it. There are books on it.