Episode 8: Ruhleben Football Association
Are you enjoying the Football? Or do you feel like it’s very much happening at you?! Either way, enjoy the latest episode of History Flakes! How else would you know that there was an English Football ...
24 Jun 202439min
Episode 7: Broadcasting to the Enemy in WWII
This episode is a 3 in 1! We talk about 3 distinct characters broadcasting to enemy soldiers during WW2. William Joyce, aka Lord Haw Haw, a seemingly confused Irishman with a pretty serious alcohol pr...
8 Jun 202439min
Episode 6: Law & Justice in Nazi Germany (Part 2)
Ok, let’s see how this guy ends. In part 2 of our episode on Law and Justice in Nazi Germany we talk about some of the big legal events which make life increasingly difficult for those categorised 'un...
25 Mai 202448min
Episode 5: Law & Justice in Nazi Germany Part 1: Establishing the Dictatorship
Strap in nerds. In the first episode of our first two-parter, we use the career of Roland Freisler to track some of the huge legal changes that would secure the dictatorship of the Third Reich. We get...
11 Mai 202452min
Episode 4: All That Jazz in Berlin
This episode we'll be talking about Jazz's reception in Berlin and Germany more broadly, from its early arrival in the 20s to the Third Reich's attempts to stamp it out. Minister for Propaganada and E...
29 Apr 202448min
Episode 3: S-Bahn Murderer
Just weeks before the beginning of the Second World War, a dark spectre begins to stalk a particular section of the S-Bahn train line in Berlin. The press under Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbel...
13 Apr 202458min
Episode 2: Salka Viertel
You know how it is, you want Greta Garbo in your next Hollywood Talkie, but she's awkward and weird and won't get on the phone, you need Salka Viertel. Weimar Theatre Actress, Consummate Hostess, tir...
3 Apr 202442min
Episode 1: The November Revolution
It’s November in Germany, so you know that there's History afoot. Join Jonny Whitlam and Pip Roper as we discuss some of the context leading up to the November Revolution, (29th October-9th November) ...
20 Mar 202445min
