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A military history podcast that looks at all aspects of WWII. With WW2 slipping from living memory I aim to look at different historical aspects of the Second World War.
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Bite-size bits of history exploring the odd side of the Second World War.
It’s about African-Americans in WW2. Is also an interview with 2 African-Americans. Cover art photo provided by Suzy Brooks on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@simplysuzy
Join me on a journey of discovery into the past and present, as I set out to explore the history of the Second World War. Our travels will take us from the Homefront to the battlefields of Europe and beyond. Travel with us as we revisit historical locations and walk the battlefields of WW2. We will be tracking down wartime artefacts, speaking with veterans and historians alike, and paying our deepest respects to this remarkable generation; as we set out to try and help keep this period of hi ...
The story of the 20 momentous years from 1936 to 1956 that changed the course of history, as told by Jonathan Dimbleby and through the words of remarkable BBC correspondents.
From North Africa, back to Britain and then through Europe, Letters of Love in WW2 tells a unique story of the Second World War from the perspective of two people that lived through it. Three months after they wed, Cyril and Olga found themselves separated by the Second World War. Between 1940 and 1946, their love was kept alive on the pages of a thousand letters and postcards, found decades later by their family after they had both passed on. With their family’s poignant and emotional inter ...
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WW2 - the Key Questions, answered by Laurence Rees.
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WW2 - the Key Questions, answered by Laurence Rees.
Laurence Rees
A former Head of BBC TV History programmes, Laurence has specialized in writing books and making television documentaries about World War Two, the Nazis and Stalinism for thirty years. He won a BAFTA and a Peabody for his TV series 'The Nazis: A Warning from History' and a British Book Award for his book on Auschwitz, which is also the world's best selling book on this notorious camp. His book 'the Holocaust: A New History' was described by the Times as 'exemplary' and by the Daily Telegraph ...
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The WW2 Podcast
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177 - Japan's Pacific War
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I seem to have had a good run of episodes this year looking at operations from the German perspective. In this episode, we are off to the Pacific to look at the Japanese perspective of the war. I'm joined by Peter Williams. Peter lived in Japan for four years. Whilst he was there, he interviewed Japanese veterans of the Second World War. His book '…
I seem to have had a good run of episodes this year looking at operations from the German perspective. In this episode, we are off to the Pacific to look at the Japanese perspective of the war. I’m joined by Peter Williams. Peter lived in Japan for four years. Whilst he was there, he interviewed Japanese veterans of the Second World War. His book ‘…
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Gratis-episode: Dr. Satan
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VANLIG EPISODE - Midt under 2. verdenskrig så en doktor ved navn, Marcel Petiot, sitt snitt til å utnytte den tyske okkupasjonen av Frankrike på grusomt vis. Gjennom en påstått tilknytning til Den franske motstandsbevegelsen, innyndet han seg hos en rekke mennesker som var på flukt fra nazistene. Dermed havnet de i klørne på seriemorderen som har b…
At the outbreak of WWII, the ancient gothic castle of Colditz was converted into a prisoner-of-war camp. Its location on a rocky spur overlooking a river made it the ideal location for a high-security prison, or so the Germans thought. Sent to Colditz were some of the most difficult allied prisoners-of-war. Made famous after the second world war in…
At the outbreak of WWII, the ancient gothic castle of Colditz was converted into a prisoner-of-war camp. Its location on a rocky spur overlooking a river made it the ideal location for a high-security prison, or so the Germans thought. Sent to Colditz were some of the most difficult allied prisoners-of-war. Made famous after the second world war in…
The evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940 is one of the iconic moments of the Second World War. The miracle of the 'little ships' plucking soldiers off the beaches is regularly played out in the popular media, including the 1958 and 2017 films 'Dunkirk'. But, this is very much the British narrative. What if we turn the …
The evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940 is one of the iconic moments of the Second World War. The miracle of the ‘little ships’ plucking soldiers off the beaches is regularly played out in the popular media, including the 1958 and 2017 films ‘Dunkirk’. But, this is very much the British narrative. What if we turn the …
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174 - The Pacific, August 1945
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In this episode, we are looking at the closing weeks of the war in 1945. August would see the Russians enter the war with Japan, the atomic bombs dropped, and an attempted coup in Japan. The culmination of which would be the final declaration of surrender by Japan’s Emporer Hirohito on the 15th of August, followed a couple of weeks later by the for…
In this episode, we are looking at the closing weeks of the war in 1945. August would see the Russians enter the war with Japan, the atomic bombs dropped, and an attempted coup in Japan. The culmination of which would be the final declaration of surrender by Japan’s Emporer Hirohito on the 15th of August, followed a couple of weeks later by the for…
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Gratis-episode: Curtis LeMay
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VANLIG EPISODE - General Curtis LeMay har blitt husket som en av det amerikanske flyvåpenets mest kontroversielle ledere. Han tjenestegjorde både under 2. verdenskrig, der han var ansvarlig for den beryktede brannbombingen av Tokyo, og under Den kalde krigen. Hadde LeMay fått det slik han ville kunne konsekvensen fort ha vært en atomkrig mellom USA…
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173 - The Maritime Struggle in the Mediterranean and Middle East
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In this episode of the podcast, we shine a light on the naval conflict in the Mediterranean and the Middle East. This proved to be a prolonged conflict, waged at differing times against the combined forces of Italy, Germany and Vichy France over a wide area stretching from the coastal waters of Southern Europe in the north to Madagascar in the sout…
In this episode of the podcast, we shine a light on the naval conflict in the Mediterranean and the Middle East. This proved to be a prolonged conflict, waged at differing times against the combined forces of Italy, Germany and Vichy France over a wide area stretching from the coastal waters of Southern Europe in the north to Madagascar in the sout…
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Fighting Through WW2 History
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85 Bill Turner POW and the Cockleshell Heroes WW2
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How the Cockleshell Heroes upset Nazi supply lines with canoes! How a British Royal Fusilier survived for 3 years as a German POW. More great unpublished history! Support the Cockleshell 2022 team for December 22 and donate to the Royal British Legion: https://bit.ly/CockleshellFightingThrough Paul Britton, Senior reporter at Manchester Evening New…
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172 - The Battle of Stalingrad
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The German offensive to capture Stalingrad began in August 1942, using Friedrich Paulus's 6th Army and elements of the 4th Panzer Army. The attack was supported by intense bombing that reduced much of the city to rubble. The battle quickly degenerated into house-to-house fighting, as both sides fought for the city on the Volga. By mid-November, the…
The German offensive to capture Stalingrad began in August 1942, using Friedrich Paulus’s 6th Army and elements of the 4th Panzer Army. The attack was supported by intense bombing that reduced much of the city to rubble. The battle quickly degenerated into house-to-house fighting, as both sides fought for the city on the Volga. By mid-November, the…
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Gratis-episode: The Tiger of Malaya
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VANLIG EPISODE - General Tomoyuki Yamashita har blitt husket som en av Japans dyktigste og mest berømte generaler fra 2. verdenskrig. I løpet av krigstjenesten reiste han til Tyskland for å møte Adolf Hitler, før han ledet de japanske styrkene til en av deres mest spektakulære seire. Vi gir deg hele historien om mannen som fikk tilnavnet The Tiger …
I’ve been trying to slip in an extra episode of the podcast for a while but never seem to manage it! I hope you find this interesting. Running at the Alexandra Palace Theatre this summer is Tom, Dick and Harry, a play telling the story of the great escape. I thought it might be interesting to talk about how you take a story so familiar to many of u…
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171 - Tom, Dick and Harry
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I've been trying to slip in an extra episode of the podcast for a while but never seem to manage it! I hope you find this interesting. Running at the Alexandra Palace Theatre this summer is Tom, Dick and Harry, a play telling the story of the great escape. I thought it might be interesting to talk about how you take a story so familiar to many of u…
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170 - The German Battle of the Bulge
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In December 1944 the Germans launched the battle of the Bulge, their last major offensive in the west. Commencing in the depths of winter, with the hope that the weather would neutralise allied air superiority, three German armies attacked through the Ardennes. We have looked at part of the Ardennes offensive before but from the American perspectiv…
In December 1944 the Germans launched the battle of the Bulge, their last major offensive in the west. Commencing in the depths of winter, with the hope that the weather would neutralise allied air superiority, three German armies attacked through the Ardennes. We have looked at part of the Ardennes offensive before but from the American perspectiv…
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The usual historical narrative of the U-boats during WWII usually revolves around the 'Battle of the Atlantic', and the struggle over the convoys bringing vital supplies to Britain. But the story of the U-boat war is much more complex, they went into action on the first day of hostilities with Britain and France and operated in nearly every theatre…
The usual historical narrative of the U-boats during WWII usually revolves around the ‘Battle of the Atlantic’, and the struggle over the convoys bringing vital supplies to Britain. But the story of the U-boat war is much more complex, they went into action on the first day of hostilities with Britain and France and operated in nearly every theatre…
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Gratis-episode: Nordstern - Hitlers Trondheim
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Gratis-episode: Nazistene hadde store planer for Trondheim, som skulle bli en germansk metropol når krigen var vunnet. Hitlers sjefsarkitekt Albert Speer fikk oppdraget med å planlegge byen. Det skulle bygges en firefelts motorvei fra Oslo til Trondheim, og nær byen skulle det bygges en helt ny storby: Nordstern – med tyskernes største krigshavn og…
KURIOSITET - Erich Raeder var lederen for nazistenes marinestyrker, da 2. verdenskrig brøt ut. Karrieren hans i den tyske flåten strakte seg imidlertid helt tilbake til 1894. I den første av to episoder om Raeder tar vi oss gjennom første halvdel av livet hans. Vi skal høre om Raeders strenge far, Hans Friedrich, og hvordan Raeder ble brevvenn med …
Operation Foxley was the name of the secret plan supported by Winston Churchill to assassinate Hitler in 1944-45. Different methods of assassination were considered, such as a sharp shooter or poisoning, through to a more elaborate plan that included hypnotism. I'm joined by Eric Lee. Eric has been with us before, in episode 130, to discuss the Geo…
Operation Foxley was the name of the secret plan supported by Winston Churchill to assassinate Hitler in 1944-45. Different methods of assassination were considered, such as a sharpshooter or poisoning, through to a more elaborate plan that included hypnotism. I’m joined by Eric Lee. Eric has been with us before, in episode 130, to discuss the Geor…
SERIE - Kvinnelige agenter - Sonja Wigert var Norges største filmstjerne i mellomkrigstiden, men da tyskerne okkuperte Norge, tok hun fatt på sin viktigste rolle: Wigert ble agent for både norsk motstandsbevegelse og svensk etterretning, og hennes hovedmål var ingen ringere enn Josef Terboven, Hitlers øverste mann i Norge. Wigerts flørt med Terbove…
Hør hele episoden i Untold! KURIOSITET - Polske Witold Pilecki lot seg frivillig fengsle i Auschwitz for å infiltrere dødsleiren. Pilecki var offiser i den hemmelige polske motstandshæren, og tilbrakte to og et halvt år i Auschwitz på oppdrag. Der organiserte han en motstandsgruppe, samlet og sendte informasjon og hjalp innsatte i nød. Innsatsen ha…
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167 - John Basilone
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In episode 158, I talked to Henry Sledge about his father's experiences with the US Marines in the Pacific, which led me to rewatch the 2010 TV miniseries The Pacific. The show revolves around three lead characters, Eugene Sledge, Robert Leckie and John Basilone. Basilone received the Medal of Honor for heroism above and beyond the call of duty dur…
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Gratis-episode: General Patton (2:2)
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Gratis-episode: Del 2 - George S. Patton var en av USAs mest legendariske generaler under 2. verdenskrig. Han ble beryktet for sin aggressive ledelse, og kunne være like kompromissløs overfor sine egne menn som han var overfor fienden. I del 2 av historien om Patton går vi gjennom tjenesten hans under 2. verdenskrig, da Patton blant annet ble kjent…
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Fighting Through WW2 History
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84 Canadian Lance Corporal David Johnson, Italy WW2
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A great tale of one man's survival when so many around him lost their lives in Italy and beyond. Features 5th Canadian Division. Plus a fascinating U-Boat tale about weather station Kurt sneakily set up by the enemy in Newfoundland. More great unpublished history! Donate To Salvation Army Ukraine Crisis Appeal https://bit.ly/FightingThroughSalvatio…
KURIOSITET - Grethe Bartram var en dansk informant for Gestapo, som gikk under kodenavnet “Thora”. I løpet av nazistenes okkupasjon av Danmark, skal hun ha angitt flere titalls medlemmer av den lokale motstandsbevegelsen. Noe som gjorde at hun mottok en dødsdom etter 2. verdenskrig. Hør nye episoder av Historiepodden WW2 reklamefritt i appen vår Un…
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166 - Rodolfo Graziani
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Rodolfo Graziani, Marshal of Italy, Viceroy of Ethiopia and one of Mussolini's most valued generals remains to this day a divisive figure in his homeland. Revered by some Italians as a patriot and vilified by others as a murderer. From the allied perspective, he was the Italian general whose troops surrendered en masse to the British during operati…
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83 Corporal Leslie Cook and the Japanese Doll
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The tale of an Australian soldier who has to bury dead Japanese soldiers - a very distasteful duty but one which years later paid him back in positive ways he could not have imagined at the time. More great unpublished history! Donate To Salvation Army Ukraine Crisis Appeal https://bit.ly/FightingThroughSalvationArmy Red Cross/ Disasters Emergency …
