History of the Germans

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-