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World War II with Tom Hanks

Darkness Falls

6/9/202641 min

Under Adolf Hitler's leadership, anti-Semitic policies escalate from discrimination to widespread genocide. The state-sponsored persecution features mobile killing squads conducting mass shootings, and then purpose-built death camps, where millions of men, women and children are murdered by poison gas.

This episode features interviews with (in order of appearance):

Waitman Wade Beorn, assistant professor, Northumbria UniversityJadwiga Biskupska, associate professor, Sam Houston State UniversityAlexandra Richie, professor, Collegium CivitasDaniel Greene, adjunct professor, Northwestern UniversityJames Bulgin, Imperial War MuseumRebecca Erbelding, historian and authorSimon Sebag Montefiore, historian and authorRobert Citino, senior historian, National WWII Museum

Clips

Deception at Auschwitz Gas Chambers
Himmler Nearly Vomits
Bodies On Bodies Execution
U.S. Suppresses Holocaust Warnings

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    The History Channel Original Podcast. On April 1st, 1933, Adolf Hitler's first official act to persecute Germany's Jews is an attempt to sever them from all commercial life with a boycott. What follows over the next 12 years is an organized, sustained cruelty unparalleled in human history. It unfolds step by step. When he first grasps the enormity of the evil, Winston Churchill calls it the crime without a name. It becomes known as the Holocaust.

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