Dan Snow’s History Hit | 3 September 2020 | 0h 38m | Listen Later 
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Interview with Steve Foster relating an extraordinary Second World War escape story. Moving tale of two unlikely friends escaping a Nazi war camp, audaciously travelling across Europe, even visiting a Munich beer hall, before reaching the Swiss border. Subsequently became the book The Soldier Who Came Back.
Tag: World War II
Poland, 1939: World War Two Begins
History Extra | 5 September 2019 | 0h 45m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Roger Moorhouse telling the story of the 1939 battle for Poland that saw the country dismembered by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Draws from his book First to Fight: The Polish War 1939.
Adam Tooze on Nazi Ideology and the German War Economy
Politics Theory Other | 25 June 2018 | 0h 58m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Adam Tooze about his book The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy. Discusses the entwinement of Nazi ideology and economics, the explanation for the apparent irrationality of German military strategy, the comparative backwardness of the German economy in the pre-war period, and the question of 1930s parallels in the post-financial crash era.
World War Two: The Economic Battle
The Documentary | 22 September 2019 | 0h 50m | Listen Later | iTunes
Duncan Weldon on the importance of economic factors in the Second World War. Interesting perspectives throughout. For example, the contrast between Britain having more manpower available due to importing food versus Germany deploying more manpower to food production than its armed forces.
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