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World War II with Tom Hanks

Resistance

7/14/202638 min

Resistance to Nazi occupation and oppression has been a constant throughout the war. In the summer of 1944, two cities revolt against the Nazis but meet very different outcomes. And some, living and dying through the Holocaust, take their fate into their own hands and mount organized resistance in the direst of circumstances.

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

  • Colonel Douglas Douds, professor, US Army War College
  • Robert Citino, senior historian, National WWII Museum
  • Dan Snow, historian and broadcaster
  • Alexandra Richie, professor, Collegium Civitas
  • Michael Neiberg, professor, US Army War College
  • Marco Aterrano, associate professor, University of Naples Federico II
  • Martin Morgan, military historian and author
  • Simon Sebag Montefiore, historian and author
  • Anand Toprani, military historian, U.S. Naval War College
  • James Bulgin, historian, Imperial War Museum
  • Rebecca Erbelding, historian, United States Holocaust Museum

Clips

Auschwitz Revolt: Sisters, Avenge
Order to Erase Warsaw
Oradour Village Massacre
Is Paris Burning?
De Gaulle's Self-Appointment

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Tom Hanks0:00

    The History Channel Original Podcast.

  2. Speaker 20:02

    By the summer of 1944, the terror and tyranny of the Nazi Third Reich shrouds most of Europe. Occupied countries resist as they can, but with the advance of Soviet forces in the East and the success of the Normandy invasion in the West, two of the world's great cities organize in force and fight back. Even in the place of greatest horror, there is resistance. [explosion] This is World War II with Tom Hanks. Episode 16, Resistance. [radio static] This is London calling. French people speaking to the French.

  3. Tom Hanks0:55

    Since the fall of France, the BBC has broadcast daily radio programming to occupied Europe. Embedded within the broadcasts are coded messages.

  4. Speaker 21:07

    Please listen now to personal messages.

  5. Tom Hanks1:11

    The night before D-Day, the Allied invasion of Western Europe, the broadcast to occupied France includes a line from a poem by Paul Verlaine.

  6. Speaker 21:20

    "Wound my heart with a monotonous languor."

  7. Speaker 31:27

    The French Resistance is waiting,

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