Showing results for "Nazi Germany" in Social Sciences

In 2009, three US professors with access to Adolf Hitler’s alleged remains startled the world with scientific DNA proof that the skull and bones that Russia had claimed since the end of World War II were Hitler’s actually belonged to a middle-aged woman whose identity remains unknown.

Adolf Hitler's Third Reich promised a thousand-year empire but collapsed in a mere twelve, leaving Europe in ruins. This show traces Nazi Germany from the ashes of the Weimar Republic to the bunker in Berlin, covering the Reichstag Fire, the Enabling Act, the Night of the Long Knives, Kristallnacht, the Blitzkrieg campaigns, the Holocaust, and the final Battle of Berlin. Hosts Lucas and Luna dissect key figures like Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, Speer, and the resistance circles around Stauffenberg. They examine the Nazi economy, propaganda machinery, racial laws, and the complicity of ordinary ...

What would life be like for a Black boy growing up in Nazi Germany? This unprecedented autobiography answers that question with the spellbinding true story of Hans J. Massaquoi’s life in Hamburg during the height of Hitler’s regime. Hans is the son of a Black Liberian diplomat father and a white German mother. His father returns to Africa at the beginning of the war, leaving them behind in poverty without the means to flee. Within this tense atmosphere, increasingly violent Nazi policies and Allied bombing raids make Hans and his mother’s lives a day-to-day survival struggle.

In Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. Westermann reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among the SS and police became a routine part of rituals of humiliation in the camps, ghettos, and killing fields of Eastern Europe. Westermann draws on a vast range of newly unearthed material to explore how alcohol consumption served as a literal and metaphorical lubricant for mass murder. It facilitated "performative masculinity," expressly linked to physical or sexual violence.

In Top 10 Nazi Conspiracies Debunked, historian and researcher Cyril Marlen unpacks and exposes the most infamous Nazi-related myths that have persisted for decades. These aren’t just fringe internet rumors—they’re global narratives that continue to shape pop culture, political thinking, and historical misunderstanding. This powerful and thoroughly researched book offers a chapter-by-chapter breakdown of the top ten conspiracy theories associated with Nazi Germany.

The Soviet Union’s triumph over Nazi Germany in World War II was a cataclysmic struggle that reshaped the 20th century. From the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 to the Battle of Stalingrad (1942–1943), the siege of Leningrad, and the final assault on Berlin in 1945, this show explores the Eastern Front’s brutal totality. Lucas and Luna guide listeners through key figures like Stalin, Zhukov, and Hitler, as well as pivotal battles such as Kursk and Operation Bagration. They examine the Soviet war economy, the role of Lend-Lease, partisan resistance, and the ideological clash between Communism ...

That a Jew living in Nazi Berlin survived the Holocaust at all is surprising. That he was a homosexual and a teenage leader in the resistance and yet survived is amazing. But that he endured the ongoing horror with an open heart, with love and without vitriol, and has written about it so beautifully is truly miraculous. This is Gad Beck's story.

"Hoffentlich holt der nicht mehr lange Luft." Oder: "Gleich in die Fresse schlagen." Beleidigungen, offener Hass und Gewaltandrohungen dieser Art gehören zum Alltag von Jakob Springfeld. Der 18-Jährige ist einer der wenigen jungen Leute in Sachsen, die sich politisch für das linke Lager engagieren. Der junge Autor kämpft gegen Rechts, gegen Hass und auch gegen seine Angst. Aufgeben kommt für ihn nicht in Frage. Er berichtet von seinen Versuchen, das andere Gesicht Sachsens sichtbar zu machen: Es steht für Toleranz, Antirassismus und Demokratie.

On a busy canal lined street in Amsterdam, Anne Frank and her Jewish family hid from the Nazis near the end of WWII. Anne Frank wrote accounts of their lives in this confinement. Learning from the one radio they shared and quietly listened to, Anne hoped her diary would be published. It was published posthumously, by her father; Anne's only relative to survive the Nazi death camps.