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Ep. 54- Early Violence against Jews in 1933 with Hermann Beck
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) 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
Ep. 53- Hitler’s Mein Kampf and the Holocaust with Michael S. Bryand and John J. Michalczyk
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) 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 sig
Ep. 52- Mengele in South America with Betina Anton
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) 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 crim
Ep. 51- Klaus Barbie and his Trial with Richard J. Golsan
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) 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 ev
Ep. 50- Digital Humanities and the Holocaust with Todd Presner
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) 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,
Ep. 49- Reframing Holocaust Testimony with Noah Shenker
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) 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
Ep. 48- War Criminals in Australia with Jayne Persian
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) 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 unnotice
Ep. 47- A Nazi in the Family with Kai Hoess
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) 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 way
Ep. 46- Nazi Architecture with Paul Jaskot
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) 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 monumenta
Ep. 45- Jewish Resistance in Germany with Wolf Gruner
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) 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
Ep. 44- The Fate of Jewish Sites in Poland with Yechiel Weizman
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) 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 cemet
Ep. 43- Geographies of the Holocaust with Anne Kelly Knowles and Tim Cole
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) 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 wit
Ep. 42- Interviewing Holocaust Survivors with Hank Greenspan
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) 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 psyc
Ep. 41- Nazi "Euthanasia" and its aftermath with Dagmar Herzog
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) The Nazis first targeted mentally and physically disabled Germans for mass killing, before they targeted Jews. However, discrimination and ableist thought predated the Nazis
Ep. 40- The Spatial History of Treblinka with Jacob Flaws
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) 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
Ep. 39- Philosophy and the Holocaust with John K. Roth
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) 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 stru
Ep. 38- The Einsatzgruppen with Jürgen Matthäus
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) 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 th
Ep. 37- The Nazis and Christianity with Richard Steigmann-Gall
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) 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 hat
Ep. 36- Visiting Holocaust sites with Stuart Bertie, Mary Brazier, and Lesley Moore
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) 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
Ep. 35- The Trials of Ilse Koch with Tomaz Jardim
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) 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 t
Ep. 34- The Holocaust in Belarus with Franziska Exeler
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) 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 suff
Ep. 33- The Bełżec Extermination Camp with Chris Webb
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) 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 an
Ep. 32- Lanzmann's Shoah with Dominic Williams
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) 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 perpe
Ep. 31- Decoding the Holocaust Codes with Christian Jennings
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) When the Einsatzgruppen began reporting that they were murdering Jews, the British code-breakers at Bletchley Park intercepted and decoded the messages. Throughout the Holoc
Ep. 30- Nazi Eugenics with Marius Turda
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) 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 unw
Ep. 29- German Resistance to the Nazis with Mark Roseman
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) 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 d
Ep. 28- The International Tracing Service with Dan Stone
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) 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 sc
Ep. 27- The Catholic Church and the Holocaust with David Kertzer
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) 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 evidenc
Ep. 26- Josef Mengele with David Marwell
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) 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
Ep. 25- The Holocaust and the German Genocide in Namibia with Jürgen Zimmerer
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) Was the Holocaust a unique event or did it have its roots in earlier historical events? How do we put earlier colonial genocides in context and conversation with the Holocau
