The podcast that does what it says on the tin: a narrative history of the German people that starts in the year 919 AD and hopes to get all the way to 1991. Episodes are 25-35 min long and drop on Thursday mornings. As Gregory of Tours (539-594) said: "A great many things keep happening, some good, some bad".HotGPod is now entering its 8th 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)