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Podcast: PastMaster: Reshaping History
Episode: Aria of Death:Â A Mission to Kill Hitler (ft. Nick Horseman)
Description: Vienna, 1911. The Habsburg Empire is creaking, Wagner's Lohengrin is playing at the opera house, and somewhere in the audience sits a young, failed art student who will one day start a world war. Nick Horseman has been sent back with one mission: find Adolf Hitler and kill him before he rises to prominence. The time machine is a log flume. Obviously.
The ultimate pub conversation brought to life. As "Klaus Horsmann," Nick arrives in early 20th-century Vienna with a plan that prioritises directness over subtlety. His theory: young Hitler's known obsession with Wagner will draw him to...