Darryl Cooper (historian)

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Darryl Cooper
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NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Occupation(s)Amatuer historian, podcaster, writer

Darryl Cooper is an American amateur historian, podcaster [1] and writer. He is the host of The Martyr Made Podcast and co-host of The Unraveling with Jocko Willink. [2]

Cooper is also a writer for The American Conservative . [3]

In 2021, Cooper went viral online for blaming the media for MAGA voters' belief in Trump's 2020 reelection campaign fraud claims. [4]

Cooper has made such claims that the Nazis during World War II were simply "in over their heads." [5] [ needs context ]

In a now deleted social media tweet Cooper once claimed that a picture of Adolf Hitler coming to Nazi-occupied Paris was "infinitely preferable in every way" to a picture from the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony of drag queens reenacting The Last Supper of Jesus with the Twelve Apostles. [5]

On September 2, 2024, conservative commentator Tucker Carlson interviewed Cooper on Tucker on X , which caused controversy. [6] Carlson stated that Cooper is "the most important popular historian working in the United States today." [5]

In March 2025, Cooper was a guest on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. [7] During the interview, Cooper claimed that Adolf Hitler opposed the Kristallnacht pogrom in which 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps, not due to his love of jewish people, but due to the negative effect the pogrom was having on the German people. [8] Cooper also said that Hitler, after viewing the "sorry state" of the German people, could only sympathise with them by believing that they were "manipulated" by the Jews, and that Hitler's "antisemitism is what allowed him to love the German people." Host Joe Rogan commended Cooper's views calling them comprehensive and nuanced. [7]

References

  1. ↑ Azizi, Arash (September 10, 2024). "The Dangerous Rise of the Podcast Historians". The Atlantic .
  2. ↑ "Darryl Cooper | Substack". Substack . Retrieved 2025-03-14.
  3. ↑ Cooper, Darryl (November 16, 2020). "Voting Systems". The American Conservative .
  4. ↑ Fisher, Anthony L. (September 7, 2024). "This 'historian' got internet famous as a Big Lie apologist. Now, he's defending Nazis". MSNBC.
  5. 1 2 3 Lapin, Andrew (September 5, 2024). "Tucker Carlson hosts 'historian' who promotes Nazi falsehoods on Holocaust". The Jerusalem Post .
  6. ↑ Beauchamp, Zack (September 6, 2024). "Conservatives are shocked — shocked! — that Tucker Carlson is soft on Nazis". Vox .
  7. 1 2 Sales, Ben (March 15, 2025). "Joe Rogan hosts Holocaust revisionist on his podcast, complains of 'paranoid' Jews". The Times of Israel .
  8. ↑ Taylor, Alan (19 June 2011). "World War II: Before the War". The Atlantic . Archived from the original on 7 January 2015.


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