Theresienstadt: The"Model Ghetto"#13
Theresienstadt: The"Model Ghetto"#13 Holocaust scholar Yehuda Bauer notes: "Of the 139,654 Jews deported to Theresienstadt before April 1945, a scant 16,832 were freed when the ghetto was liberated af...
18 Aug 202019min
Jewish Resistance The Fight Against Nazi Tyranny #12
Jewish Resistance The Fight Against Nazi Tyranny #12 It's surprising how many people honestly imagine that the Jews were somehow passive during the Holocaust. That they went like sheep to the slaughte...
18 Aug 202016min
The Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in the Holocaust Era #11
The Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in the Holocaust Era #11 Well after Hitler rose to power in Germany, the Nazis realized that they still needed Jewish organizations to act in an intermediary capacity...
18 Aug 202025min
The Decision to Kill the Jews & the Wannsee Conference #10
The Wannsee Conference #10 On Jan. 20, 1942, a conference was convened in a Berlin suburb, in a place called Am Grossen Wannsee. Adolf Hitler did not attend, but it's clear that the "Final Solution" w...
18 Aug 202021min
The Final Solution The Decisive Year #9
The Final Solution The Decisive Year #9 When did the "Final Solution" actually take shape? Can we pinpoint the exact moment in which Hitler's madness was transformed from wild rhetorical flourishes to...
18 Aug 202017min
Courage and Conscience: The Jewish Response in Germany #8
Courage and Conscience: The Jewish Response in Germany #8 Question: Could the roughly half a million Jews in Germany during the Hitler era have gotten out if they had wanted to? Was Hitler somehow hol...
18 Aug 202017min
Nazi Policy: Persecution of the Jews 1933-1939 #7
We have a sense of what Nazi policy entailed from the rise of Hitler in 1933 until the outbreak of World War II in 1939. But let's dig a little deeper and ask how much the average German really knew a...
18 Aug 202019min
The Holocaust in Hungary & Romania #6
As soon as we hear the word "Holocaust" we immediately think of Nazi Germany and of Poland, but there are two very important countries that are not immediately associated with the Holocaust – Hungary ...
18 Aug 202022min
