WW2 Pod Ep 868: Victory 45 - Why They Fought (Part 4)

Photo: Liberated female prisoners at Dachau wave to their liberators, 29 April 1945. Image source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Photograph #19291, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park. Public domain.

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Victory '45: Why They Fought (Part 4)

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Goalhanger

24 Apr, 2025

WW2 Pod We Have Ways

55 Mins

Operation Paperclip

U.S. Ninth Army

Third U.S. Army

British Second Army

End of WWII

Special Forces

Leadership

Third Reich

Winston Churchill

Holocaust and War Crimes

Franklin Roosevelt

Airborne Forces

What did the Allies discover in the concentration camps in the heartlands of Nazi Germany? How did they struggle to help the survivors they found? Join James Holland & Al Murray as they uncover the pivotal but often overlooked final moments of WW2 in Europe - from the grand international politics of the new Cold War superpowers, down to often intense individual tragedies of the survivors.

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Meet the Speakers

James Holland

Historian, writer, and podcaster, specialises in World War II and hosts "We Have Ways" podcast.

Al Murray

Al Murray, comedian, writer, and historian, co-hosts the WWII podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk and writes on

WW2 Pod We Have Ways

Victory '45

Victory '45: Why They Fought (Part 4)

Victory '45: Why They Fought (Part 4)

Meet the Speakers

James Holland

Al Murray

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