Hosted by Waitman Wade Beorn · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 82 episodes
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The Holocaust History Podcast features engaging conversations with a diverse group of guests on all elements of the Holocaust. Whether you are new to the topic or come with prior knowledge, you will learn something new.
Waitman Wade Beorn hosts The Holocaust History Podcast, a history show with 82 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail HAve you encountered material on the Holocaust that you find disturbing or upsetting? Was it in your reading or at a Holocaust site or museum? In this episode, I talk with Julie Golding about the challen
Send us Fan Mail Even as the Holocaust was ongoing, some Jews dreamed of and sought revenge for Nazi attacks on them. Ironically, the Nazis themselves believed in a particularly antisemitic myth of Jewish vengeance and m
Send us Fan Mail There are lots of popular and sensationalist accounts of the Nazi obsession with the supernatural and occult, but what is the true history of this. The truth is that various kinds of supernatural, occult
Send us Fan Mail The Holocaust was a Nazi project, but it required the support, cooperation, complicity, and sometimes collaboration of a wide variety of non-Germans to carry out. This complicity took a variety of forms
Send us Fan Mail The Nuremberg trials, though not perfect, represented in many ways an epic achievement in justice for crimes against humanity. However, a darker and lesser-known element of the trials is what happened to
Send us Fan Mail The Janowska concentration camp may well be the most important Holocaust place most people have never heard of. It was central to the Holocaust in eastern Poland, was the scene of unspeakable cruelty, bu
Send us Fan Mail How did Nazi war criminals engage with (or deny) their giult? How was the prosecution and conviction of Nazi perpetrators dealt with in families? What was the role of religion and faith assuaging guilt?
Send us Fan Mail What is a concentration camp? What are the distinguishing features of these spaces? Where did they come from? In this episode, I talk with Andrea Pitzer about the long, global history of the concentratio
Send us Fan Mail It was the largest open shooting of the Holocaust (and perhaps in history). Yet the murder in Babi Yar of 33,000+ Jews and other victims remained for much of its postwar life, unmarked and uncommemorated
Send us Fan Mail How do we approach witnessing the Holocaust? Are there appropriate or inappropriate ways to do this? Does witnessing make us more empathetic or more indifferent? These are just some of the questions we a
Send us Fan Mail An important part of researching the Holocaust is recovering the stories of the diverse group of victims of the Nazi genocidal project. For a very long time, queer victims have been marginalized or overl
Send us Fan Mail How did women experience the Holocaust differently from men? What do we learn from considering a gender perspective when we look at the past? How did gender play a role in survival and oppression? For a
Send us Fan Mail How could one be a man of God in Nazi Germany? And, especially, how can one minister to the Wehrmacht, itself an instrument of the Nazi state while professing to adhere to Christian morality? These are t
Send us Fan Mail The mass shooting of Jews at Babi Yar in Kiev in September 1941 was the largest open-air shooting of Jews during the Holocaust. In some ways, it came to stand for the Einsatzgruppen killings taking place
Send us Fan Mail The Nuremberg Trials were the first attempt at coming to terms with Nazi criminality. While there was a legal component to this, there was also a psychological element. What made Nazi minds tick? In this
Send us Fan Mail We often make the mistake of thinking that history is all about what happened and why. However, its also very much about how people felt about what was happening to them. In this episode, I talked with A
Send us Fan Mail Despite some popular perception, Holocaust perpetrators are rarely cartoonish pure evil characters. In fact, many of them understood their guilt and actively sought to weave false narratives to exonerate
Send us Fan Mail Sometimes it can still be surprising how deeply the Nazi state tainted every aspect of society...including ornithology. In this fascinating episode, I talk with Nicholas Milton about Günther Niethammer,
Send us Fan Mail The Nazis’ physical war on Jews also had important cultural repercussions. One of these was its assault on Yiddish. The Holocaust not only murdered many Yiddish speakers and destroyed Yiddish institution
Send us Fan Mail We often hear the term “dehumanization” used in a variety of contexts. For example, dehumanization a set of beliefs, or a set of behaviors? Is it metaphorical or do people actually believe their victims
Andrea Pitzer
journalist and author
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Carolyn Dean
Charles J.. Stille Professor of History and French · Yale University
1 appearance on this show
Anna Hajkova
associate professor of Modern Continental European History at the University of Warwick · Holocaust Living History Workshop
1 appearance on this show
Jack El-Hai
author
1 appearance on this show
Jack El-Hai
Author of The Nazi and the Psychiatrist
1 appearance on this show
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The Holocaust History Podcast is hosted by Waitman Wade Beorn. The show is categorised under history and has published 82 episodes.
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