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Architecture (and architects) played a critical role in not just the Third Reich, but also the Holocaust. Nazi architects helped embody the Nazi worldview in their monumental work but also in the designs of concentration camps. They were willing collaborators in the use of slave labor and, ultimately, in the construction of the apparatuses of genocide. In this episode, I talk with architecture and Holocaust historian Paul Jaskot about all these facets of architecture in the Third Reich.
Paul Jaskot is Professor of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies and co-director of the Digital Art History and Visual Culture Research Lab at Duke University.
Jaskot, Paul. The Architecture of Oppression: The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental Building Economy (1999)
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Architecture (and architects) played a critical role in not just the Third Reich, but also the Holocaust. Nazi architects helped embody the Nazi worldview in their monumental work but also in the designs of concentration camps. They were willing collaborators in the use of slave labor and, ultimately, in the construction of the apparatuses of genocide. In this episode, I talk with architecture and Holocaust historian Paul Jaskot about all these facets of architecture in the Third Reich.
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1 Ep. 55- Holocaust Photographs with Hilary Earl and Valerie Hébert 1:20:52
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text In December 1941, an SS man took a series of 12 photographs of an Einsatzgruppen killing in Latvia. The negatives were stolen by a survivor who had copies made and retrieved them after the war. In today’s episode, we explore what we can learn about the Holocaust from these photographs and, indeed, from photographs in general. I talk with Hillary Earl and Valerie Hébert who have written in depth about these images. Hilary Earl is a professor of history at Nipissing University. Valerie Hébert is a professor of history and interdisciplinary studies at Lakehead University. Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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1 Ep. 54- Early Violence against Jews in 1933 with Hermann Beck 1:13:27
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text When did the Holocaust start? How soon after Hitler took power did anti-Jewish violence begin? These are some of the important questions we explore in this episode as I talk with Hermann Beck and the surge in antisemitic violence in the wake of the Nazi rise to power in 1933. In his pathbreaking book, Hermann Beck has documented an explosion of serious violence including murders in the immediate wake of Hitler’s appointment as chancellor in January 1933. Importantly, we also talk about what institutions could have done at this early stage (and why they failed to act.) Hermann Beck a professor of history at the University of Miami. Beck, Hermann. Before the Holocaust: Antisemitic Violence and the Reaction of German Elites and Institutions during the Nazi Takeover (2022) Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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1 Ep. 53- Hitler’s Mein Kampf and the Holocaust with Michael S. Bryand and John J. Michalczyk 1:19:24
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text Among the books that many people talk about but few have read, certainly Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf is one. But it IS a difficult read. How do we interpret this book? How significant is it? And what does it tell us about the Holocaust? These are some of the questions we tackled in this episode with the editors of a new volume on the subject. In this episode, I talked with Michael S. Bryant and John J. Michalcayk about this important book and how to understand it. Michalczyk, John J, Michael S. Bryant, and Susan A. Michalzyk. Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ and the Holocaust: A Prelude to Genocide (2022) Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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1 Ep. 52- Mengele in South America with Betina Anton 1:18:25
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text Many Nazis including Josef Mengele, Adolf Eichmann, Franz Stangl, and Klaus Barbie escaped Europe and fled to South America in an attempt to evade prosecution for their crimes. We know quite a bit about their lives and crimes during the Holocaust but much less about the network of people that supported them in their new lives in South America. I spoke with Betina Anton about her work researching the people who helped Josef Mengele and her personal connection to this case. Note: You may want to listen to Ep. 26- Josef Mengele with David Marwell for a more in-depth biography of Mengele. Betina Anton is a journalist and international news editor at Globo TV. Anton, Betina. Hiding Mengele: How a Nazi Network Harbored the Angel of Death (2025) Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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1 Ep. 51- Klaus Barbie and his Trial with Richard J. Golsan 1:13:07
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, led a terrible and fascinating life, from Nazi torturer to advisor to brutal South American dictatorships. However, unlike many, he was eventually brought to justice for his crimes. In this episode, I talk with Richard J. Golsan about the sensational trial of Klaus Barbie and its effect on the memory of the Holocaust in France. Richard J. Golsan is University Distinguished Professor and Director of the French Institute at Texas A&M University. Golsan, Richard J. Justice in Lyon: Klaus Barbie and France's First Trial for Crimes against Humanity (2022) Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text How can the digital humanities address and explore the Holocaust? In these days of Chat GPT, we may be rightly wary about the use of computers to analyze the past. However, today’s episode shows how an ethical approach to using computational methods can expand our understanding of the past often by showing us new questions that we hadn’t considered before. In this episode, I talk with Todd Presner about his fascinating and impressive work with the “big data” of recorded Holocaust testimony. Todd Presner is Chair of UCLA’s Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at UCLA. Presner, Todd. Ethics of the Algorithm: Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory (2024) Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text Many of us have seen or listened to recorded Holocaust survivor testimony. But have we thought about HOW that testimony was created? And what role that process of eliciting testimony might play in the kinds of things survivors talk about it? In this episode, I talked with Noah Shenker about how three different archives approached gathering testimony but also about what this means for our understanding of the Holocaust and the ways that survivors remember and recount their experiences. Noah Shenker is an Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Film and Media Studies at Colgate University. Shenker, Noah. Reframing Holocaust Testimony (2015) Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text Among the flood of displaced persons that washed across Germany after WWII were a large number of perpetrators, particularly from Eastern Europe. They mostly passed unnoticed (and unbothered) by occupation authorities to start new lives elsewhere. A large number of these Holocaust perpetrators arrived in Australia where they not only remained unrepentant but established new fascist networks. In this episode, I talk with Jayne Persian about these fascists in exile in Australia. Persian, Jayne. Fascists in Exile: Post-War Displaced Persons in Australia (2023) Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text What is it like to have a Nazi in the family? What if that Nazi was Rudolf Hoess, the commandant of Auschwitz? One of the least studied areas of Holocaust history is the ways in which the families and descendants of former Nazis engage with their family history. I am very grateful to be joined on this week’s podcast by Kai Hoess, grandson of Rudolf Hoess, to talk about his family history and his own journey to coming to terms with his past. As always, this podcast does not endorse any particular religion or religious doctrine. Kai Hoess is a non-denominational Christian pastor at the Bible Church of Stuttgart. Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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1 Ep. 46- Nazi Architecture with Paul Jaskot 1:15:11
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text Architecture (and architects) played a critical role in not just the Third Reich, but also the Holocaust. Nazi architects helped embody the Nazi worldview in their monumental work but also in the designs of concentration camps. They were willing collaborators in the use of slave labor and, ultimately, in the construction of the apparatuses of genocide. In this episode, I talk with architecture and Holocaust historian Paul Jaskot about all these facets of architecture in the Third Reich. Paul Jaskot is Professor of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies and co-director of the Digital Art History and Visual Culture Research Lab at Duke University. Jaskot, Paul. The Architecture of Oppression: The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental Building Economy (1999) Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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1 Ep. 45- Jewish Resistance in Germany with Wolf Gruner 1:16:03
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text How did Jews in Germany resist the Nazis? What were the choices that they made to stand up against the regime where its authoritarian power was greatest? In this episode, I talk with Wolf Gruner about his research on this topic and his surprising discovery of the extent of resistance by Jewish Germans in the heart of the Nazi state. Wolf Gruner is the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of History and director of the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research at the University of Southern California. Gruner, Wolf. Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler's Germany (2023) Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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1 Ep. 44- The Fate of Jewish Sites in Poland with Yechiel Weizman 1:13:36
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text The Holocaust in Poland left hundreds of towns and villages that had previously had large Jewish populations empty. However, important Jewish sites like synagogues and cemeteries remained. Polish communities were then confronted with what do with these places. In this fascinating conversation with Yechiel Weizman, we talk about his work in researching this and how some communities attempted to destroy these places and how some were were quite literally haunted by their Holocaust past. Yechiel Weizman is a lecturer in the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Bar-Ilan University. Weizman, Yechiel. Unsettled Heritage: Living next to Poland's Material Jewish Traces after the Holocaust (2022) Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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1 Ep. 43- Geographies of the Holocaust with Anne Kelly Knowles and Tim Cole 1:21:37
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text Ultimately, the story of the Holocaust is one centered in places: where something happened, where someone was from, where someone wanted to go. In this episode, I talked with two scholars about the role of geography in the Holocaust but also about how we use geographical approaches and methodologies to ask (and answer new important historical questions. Anne Kelly Knowles is the McBride Professor of History at the University of Maine. Tim Cole is a professor of social history at the University of Bristol. Knowles, Anne Kelly, Tim Cole, and Paul Jaskot. Geographies of the Holocaust (2014) Cole, Tim. Holocaust City: The Making of a Jewish Ghetto (2003) Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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1 Ep. 42- Interviewing Holocaust Survivors with Hank Greenspan 1:24:55
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text How does one talk with a Holocaust survivor about their experiences? What is the role of survivor testimony in understanding the Holocaust? In this episode, I talk with psychologist, Holocaust scholar, and playwright Hank Greenspan about his lifetime of talking with survivors and what he has learned from that experience. Henry “Hank” Greenspan is an emeritus psychologist, oral historian and playwright at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor who has been interviewing, writing about, and teaching about Holocaust survivors since the 1970s. Greenspan, Henry. On Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Beyond Testimony (2010) Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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1 Ep. 41- Nazi "Euthanasia" and its aftermath with Dagmar Herzog 1:20:08
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text The Nazis first targeted mentally and physically disabled Germans for mass killing, before they targeted Jews. However, discrimination and ableist thought predated the Nazis and followed them into the postwar era. In this episode, I talk with Dagmar Herzog about both the Nazi “euthanasia” campaign, but also the larger context of discrimination against disabled people. We also talk about those who tried to care for these vulnerable people as well as those who lobbied for their recognition as Nazi victims and for their rights in general in the postwar era. Dagmar Herzog is a Distinguished Professor of History and the Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Herzog, Dagmar. The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century (2024) Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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1 Ep. 40- The Spatial History of Treblinka with Jacob Flaws 1:10:52
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text In this episode, I talked with Jacob Flaws about the spaces of Treblinka. His work analyses this extermination camp from a spatial perspective, focusing on the physical and ideological boundaries of the camp. His work shows that the fences of the camp did not contain the truth of its existence and he details the ways in which the local population from the surrounding area interacted with the Nazi killing process and its victims. Jacob Flaws is an assistant professor of history at Kean University. Flaws, Jacob. Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp (2024) Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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1 Ep. 39- Philosophy and the Holocaust with John K. Roth 1:21:35
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text Philosopher Theodore W. Adorno famously said that “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” Here he gives an example of the way that many thinkers and philosophers struggled with the post-Holocaust world. In this episode, I talked with philosopher and Holocaust scholar John K. Roth about the ways that philosophy approaches the Holocaust and how Nazi genocide challenges our understanding of the world. John K. Roth is Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Claremont McKenna College. Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text At least 2 million Jews were murdered by mass shooting in the Soviet Union. The perpetrators responsible for most of these killings were the men of the Einsatzgruppen. In this week’s episode, I talk with Jürgen Mathäus about the history of these units, their evolution from 1938 on, and the role they played in the Holocaust. Jürgen Mathäus is the director of the Applied Research Program at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The views expressed in this segment are those of the speaker; they do not necessarily represent the opinions of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Matthäus, Jürgen, Jochen Böhler, and Klaus-Michael Mallmann. War, Pacification, and Mass Murder, 1939: The Einsatzgruppen in Poland (2014) Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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1 Ep. 37- The Nazis and Christianity with Richard Steigmann-Gall 1:40:35
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text What was the relationship between Christianity? Could one be both a Nazi and a Christian? What was the relationship between religious antisemitism and other forms of Jew hatred? On today’s episode, I talked with Richard Steigmann-Gall about these difficult but important questions. Richard Steigmann-Gall is an associate professor of history at Kent State University. Steigmann-Gall, Richard. The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945 (2009) Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text What is it like to visit a Nazi extermination camp or even a Holocaust site in general? Last year, I was fortunate enough to travel to Poland with three friends to a number of camps and Holocaust-related sites and museums. I thought I would do something different in this episode and invite them to talk about their experiences. Stuart Bertie is an architect and photographer with strong family connections to WW2. He has photographed for the National WW2 Museum, and is currently working on the Band of Brothers Currahee to Normandy documentary project. Mary Brazier is a Mental Health Social Worker in the NHS with an MA in military history and a special interest in psychiatry in the Second World War. Lesley Moore is an accountant that is interested in the history of the Holocaust during WW2, in particular Operation Reinhard. She has recently starting guiding Holocaust tours in Krakow, Poland Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text The wife of Nazi camp commandant Karl Koch, Ilse, became a lasting symbol of the evil and depravity of the Nazi state. She was accused of a variety of crimes and underwent three trials, including one by the Nazis themselves. However, there is more to the story. In this episode, I talk with Tomaz Jardim about the real Ilse Koch and he unpacks the three trials as well as how the Ilse Koch ascended as the mythic epitome of Nazi evil. Tomaz Jardim is a professor of history at Toronto Metropolitan University. Jardim, Tomaz. Ilse Koch on Trial: Making the “Bitch of Buchenwald” (2024) Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text Historian Timothy Snyder wrote that, between 1941 and 1944, Belarus was the deadliest place on earth. And he was right. The population there, both Jewish and non-Jewish suffered under the full weight of the Nazi genocidal project from the Holocaust by Bullets to the Hunger Plan. In this episode, I talked with Franziska Exeler about the Holocaust in Belarus as well as its aftermath in postwar justice and its place in postwar memory. Franziska Exeler is an assistant professor at the Free University Berlin and a research fellow at the Centre for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge. Exeler, Franziska. Ghosts of War: Nazi Occupation and its Aftermath in Soviet Belarus (2022) Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text The Bełżec extermination camp was the first of the so-called Operation Reinhard camps to open. In some ways, it provided the model for the other Reinhard camps of Sobibor and Treblinka. In this episode, Chris Webb provides a detailed history of the camp and a detailed discussion of the important role that Bełżec played in the Final Solution. Chris Webb is an independent researcher who has written multiple books on the Operation Reinhard camps. He is also the creator of three important web resources on the Holocaust: the Holocaust Historical Society , ARC: The Aktion Reinhard Camps , and HEART: Holocaust Education and Research Team . Webb, Chris. The Belzec Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance (2016) Webb, Chris. The Sobibor Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance (2017) Webb, Chris. The Treblinka Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance (2014) Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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1 Ep. 32- Lanzmann's Shoah with Dominic Williams 1:24:37
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text In 1985, the nine-hour film Shoah by Claude Lanzmann hit theaters. This powerful production featured survivor testimony as well as secretly filmed interviews with Nazi perpetrators. It’s length and the way it was shot challenges our understanding of what a Holocaust film is. Is it a documentary film or something else? How has it impacted both our understanding of the event as well as the ways in which others have made films and movies about the Holocaust? In this discussion with Dominic Williams, we dive into all these questions and more! Dominic Williams is an assistant professor of history at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK. Williams, Dominic and Nicholas Chare. The Auschwitz Sonderkommando: Testimonies, Histories, Representations (2019) Williams, Dominic and Nicholas Chare. Matters of Testimony: Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz (2016) Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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1 Ep. 31- Decoding the Holocaust Codes with Christian Jennings 1:11:49
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text When the Einsatzgruppen began reporting that they were murdering Jews, the British code-breakers at Bletchley Park intercepted and decoded the messages. Throughout the Holocaust, these men and women deciphered the reports of the SS and documented the crimes of the Nazi state. On this episode, I talk with journalist and researcher Christian Jennings about the Holocaust Code and what we can learn about the Holocaust from decoded Nazi transmissions. Christian Jennings is a British author and foreign correspondent, and the author of ten non-fiction books of modern history and current affairs. THis latest book is The Holocaust Codes: Decrypting the Final Solution. He has lectured for Bletchley Park on German codebreaking, and from 1994-2012 he spent fifteen years reporting for newspapers and TV on international current affairs and complex war crimes investigations, including genocide and its aftermath, across twenty-three countries in the Western Balkans and Africa. Jennings, Christian. The Holocaust Codes: The Untold Story of Decrypting the Final Solution (2024) Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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1 Ep. 30- Nazi Eugenics with Marius Turda 1:15:34
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text The first victims were not Jews per se, but Germans. That is to say, that the Nazis first murdered mentally and physically handicapped Germans that they considered to be unworthy of living. In so doing, they drew on the long history of the eugenics movement. In this episode, I talked with Marius Turda about the role eugenics played in the Nazi state, its connections to the larger global eugenics movement, and the echoes of this history today. Marius Turda is a professor and historian of eugenics and the Holocaust as well as the director of the Centre for Medical Humanities at Oxford Brookes University. Turda, Marius. Modernism and Eugenics (2010) Turda, Marius. Eugenics and Nation in Early 20th Century Hungary (2014) Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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1 Ep. 29- German Resistance to the Nazis with Mark Roseman 1:35:03
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text The topic of resistance during the Holocaust is always a controversial one. What is resistance? What did it take to stand up to the Nazis when the vast majority of Germans did not. In this episode, I talk with historian Mark Roseman about a remarkable group of socialists in Nazi Germany who made the difficult choice to stand up in ways both big and small. We also talk about nature of resistance and what makes a resister or rescuer. Mark Roseman is a distinguished professor of history and the Pat M Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University. Roseman, Mark. Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany (2020) Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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1 Ep. 28- The International Tracing Service with Dan Stone 1:23:35
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text In addition to the massive loss of life, the twelve years of Nazi rule in Europe created one of the largest demographic disasters in human history with millions of people scattered across the continent. For Holocaust survivors, one of the most pressing tasks after liberation was attempting to discover the fates of relatives and friends. A variety of international organizations worked to help these people, This also resulted in one of the most interesting archives: the archives of the International Tracing Service . In this episode, I talk with Dan Stone about the search for the missing, the challenges of documenting the Holocaust, the secretive political history of the search for survivors. Dan Stone is a professor and director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway University in London. Stone, Dan. Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust (2023) Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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1 Ep. 27- The Catholic Church and the Holocaust with David Kertzer 1:20:28
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text The behavior of the Catholic Church and Pope Pius XII is one of the most hotly debated controversies in the history of the Holocaust. And for a long time much of the evidence about that has been locked away in the Vatican Archives. Now, historians are finally able to access these documents. In this episode, I talk with one of those who has access to those Vatican archives, David Kertzer, about the response of the Catholic Church to the rise of the Nazis and to the Holocaust. David Kertzer is a Pulitzer-prize-winning author and professor of social science at Brown University/ Kertzer, David, The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler (2022) Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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1 Ep. 26- Josef Mengele with David Marwell 1:31:19
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSend us a text Dr. Josef Mengele, the so-called Angel of Death, has achieved an almost mythical status as a supervillain. Yet this stereotype obscures the history of a man who was, in many ways, a product of both pre-war racial pseudoscience and the Nazi state. I am joined in this episode by David Marwell an historian who remarkably also worked with the US government to track down Dr. Mengele after the war. We talk about Mengele’s origins, what made him who he was, and the hunt for him after the end of World War II. David Marwell is an historian and the former director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. As former Chief of Investigative Research for the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Special Investigations, helped to hunt down Nazi war criminals. Marwell, David. Mengele: Unmasking the "Angel of Death" (2021) Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .…
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