Ep. 41- Nazi "Euthanasia" and its aftermath with Dagmar Herzog
Send us Fan Mail The Nazis first targeted mentally and physically disabled Germans for mass killing, before they targeted Jews. However, discrimination and ableist thought predated the Nazis and foll...
13 Jan 20251h 20min
Ep. 40- The Spatial History of Treblinka with Jacob Flaws
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I talked with Jacob Flaws about the spaces of Treblinka. His work analyses this extermination camp from a spatial perspective, focusing on the physical and ideologic...
6 Jan 20251h 10min
Ep. 39- Philosophy and the Holocaust with John K. Roth
Send us Fan Mail Philosopher Theodore W. Adorno famously said that “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” Here he gives an example of the way that many thinkers and philosophers struggled wit...
30 Dec 20241h 21min
Ep. 38- The Einsatzgruppen with Jürgen Matthäus
Send us Fan Mail At least 2 million Jews were murdered by mass shooting in the Soviet Union. The perpetrators responsible for most of these killings were the men of the Einsatzgruppen. In this week’...
16 Dec 20241h 19min
Ep. 37- The Nazis and Christianity with Richard Steigmann-Gall
Send us Fan Mail What was the relationship between Christianity? Could one be both a Nazi and a Christian? What was the relationship between religious antisemitism and other forms of Jew hatred? On...
9 Dec 20241h 40min
Ep. 36- Visiting Holocaust sites with Stuart Bertie, Mary Brazier, and Lesley Moore
Send us Fan Mail What is it like to visit a Nazi extermination camp or even a Holocaust site in general? Last year, I was fortunate enough to travel to Poland with three friends to a number of camps ...
25 Nov 20241h 21min
Ep. 35- The Trials of Ilse Koch with Tomaz Jardim
Send us Fan Mail The wife of Nazi camp commandant Karl Koch, Ilse, became a lasting symbol of the evil and depravity of the Nazi state. She was accused of a variety of crimes and underwent three tria...
18 Nov 20241h 21min
Ep. 34- The Holocaust in Belarus with Franziska Exeler
Send us Fan Mail Historian Timothy Snyder wrote that, between 1941 and 1944, Belarus was the deadliest place on earth. And he was right. The population there, both Jewish and non-Jewish suffered und...
11 Nov 20241h 29min
