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WW2: Both Sides of The Wire

von Prof. Matthias Strohn & Jesse Alexander

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  1. Episode 29: World War 2 Films

    In today`s episode, it gets personal. We`re headed for the bright lights of Hollywood and the big screen! We`ll play the role of film buff and film critic, and share our opinions on the best - or at least our favourite - WW2 films Join our

  2. Episode 28: Dieppe - The Disaster Unfolds

    In today’s episode, we continue the story of the disastrous raid on Dieppe in 1942. How and why did the Allied plan go wrong, what happened on the beaches, and what did the Germans think of the whole affair? Join our community! The steps ar

  3. Episode 27: Dieppe - The Mystery of Why

    In today’s episode, we’ll make a stop on the French coast at the port town of Dieppe - the site of a raid-gone-wrong in 1942, the source of a Canadian tragedy, and the cause of heated debates about why this ill-fated battle even happened at

  4. Episode 26: Pearl Harbor - Lack of Oil or Chinese Quagmire?

    In this episode, we continue our investigation of the Japanese decision to attack Pearl Harbour. Today we pick up the story in 1937, when Japan took the fateful decision to launch a full-scale invasion of China, a crucial step on the road t

  5. Episode 25: Pearl Harbor - Japan and the China Problem

    In today’s episode, we’re going to put a new twist on an old favourite that is shrouded in its share of WW2 mythology: why did Japan decide to attack the United States at Pearl Harbor in 1941? Was it really only the oil embargo that tipped

  6. Episode 24: D-Day, Deception, Deceit: Operation Fortitude

    In today’s episode we’re going to go behind the scenes to unpack what might have been the most important deception Operation of the Second World War: Operation Fortitude. Was it all just smoke and mirrors or did Allied lies win the Normandy

  7. Episode 23: End Game in Africa -Tunisgrad 1943

    In today’s episode, we’re off to North Africa to dissect the Desert Fox’s last battle in the field and the US Army’s baptism of fire against the Wehrmacht. A campaign that sealed the fate of the Axis in Africa and that some have controversi

  8. Episode 22: U-Boats

    In today’s episode, we’ll get our feet wet in what Winston Churchill once called the most critical battle of the war: the Battle of the Atlantic. And of course the main part of this struggle for mastery of the seas was waged on the German s

  9. Episode 21: Memory Part 2 - The Legacy of WW2 in Russia, USA and UK

    In today’s episode we’re going to revisit a hot topic - a political topic even! That is the memory of the Second World War. Today we’re going to look at the legacy of how WW2 is remembered, commemorated, used and abused, and even enlisted o

  10. Episode 20: Memory Part 1 - Germany

    In today’s episode we are going to visit a global battlefield of the Second World War. But this battlefield is not an operational campaign in Europe or in the Pacific – its the controversial and political battle of our collective memory of

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