A biweekly history podcast covering the last great war. Join Ray Harris Jr as he explores World War Two in intimate detail. The History of WWII Podcast is produced and narrated by Ray Harris Jr. Ray has a degree in history from James Madison University. I’ve been obsessed with the events and people from WWII since I first learned of them. I’ve been waiting years for someone to do a podcast on WWII and couldn’t wait any longer.
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the european theater Cover art photo provided by Stijn Swinnen on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@stijnswinnen
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CILJ 14th Annual Conference 2025: 'Navigating a Multipolar World: Challenges to the Post-WWII Status Quo of International Law'
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This is a collection of recordings from the events of the 14th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, held under the title 'Navigating a Multipolar World: Challenges to the Post-WWII Status Quo of International Law' on 28 & 29 April 2025 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see http://cilj.co.uk/
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Welcome to the Back to the Future podcast, where amazing things happen.
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Today we talk about women’s role in WWII Cover art photo provided by Isaac Inwood-Reardon on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@sensor_sight
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comparing ww1 and ww2, talking about goals, results, weapons used, and more
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A brief discussion of feminist strides in WWII Cover art photo provided by Teo Duldulao on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@teowithacamera
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talks about popular propaganda during ww2
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War veteran Alex, and factory worker Dylan, join Samuel on Truffle Podcast in the guest house. Cover art photo provided by Bia Andrade on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@biawashere
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Womens fashion in WWII Cover art photo provided by Nathan Anderson on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@nathananderson
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Classic radio broadcasts from WWII. Relive history through radio broadcasts during the war. Listen to fireside chats, updates from all the fronts from this great historical period in America and the world.
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We will be talking about the advancement of technology in the WWII era.
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Hunter Jones, Jack Sharer, and Rowan Branco.
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Dunkirk, D-Day, North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Omaha, USAF, RAF, POWs, Second World War Stories, Memoirs & interviews - Britain, USA, Australia, Canada … all the forces … WW2. ... Over 500 5-star ratings. "Thank you for what you are doing. It's incredible and I'm absolutely hooked" AB
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US History Cover art photo provided by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@impatrickt
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Words of War was an anthology of war stories,told by the men and women who have seen them happen. Exciting stories of World War II, its origins,its affects, and its heroes.Patriotic stories of heroes.
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A bi-weekly podcast read from the diary of Edward R Kofke recording his experience in World War II as the tail gunner of a B-24 Liberator, the 'Shoo-Shoo Baby'. As part of the 779th squadron of the 464th' Bomb Group - 15th Army Air Force, Kofke and his crew survived 50 dangerous missions over hostile NAZI targets from Italy in 1944-1945.
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D-Day Radio Broadcast Project by Itzel Hernandez Cover art photo provided by Nahil Naseer on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@nahilnaseer
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From The National WWII Museum, Antisemitism: The Fight in WWII America is a five-part podcast series exploring the battle against antisemitism in prewar America and during World War II as well as the legacy of these efforts, which continue today. We begin in 1938, examining voices who were sympathetic to Nazism, while also highlighting voices who raised public awareness of the ongoing mass murder of Europe’s Jewish populations. The first two episodes examine American groups sympathetic to th ...
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[NEW: To see the faces behind the characters' voices, go to www.storiestovoice.com/fd-cast] Audio-drama based on a WWII diary written by Natalie Crouter during her internment in a Japanese prison camp in the Philippines. Three weeks after the first bombings of the Philippines on December 8, 1941, Natalie, her family, and 500 civilians were marched at gunpoint to a deserted U.S. military post (Season One: 1941). Thus began their survival story of body and mind from 1942 to 1945. Under the wat ...
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What does it look like when fascism turns your country upside down? How do you fight bigotry and hatred when hopelessness and apathy have set in? How does individual action make a difference in the quest for equality and freedom? And what is so important about the post office? These are not questions about modern day America, these are questions we investigate about 1940s Hungary. Join us every Wednesday for this 6-part series. Please rate, subscribe, like and share. Subscribe to https://www ...
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Minnesota World War II Veterans share their personal stories and memories of the war. Listen to their voices and gain a deeper understanding of the character, values, and spirit of the Minnesota men and women who served their country during World War II.
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Episode 537-Gen. Manstein's Backhand Blow
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21:24Manstein overcame Hitler’s objections and then two Soviet Fronts. By early March 1943, Kursk was exposed and open to attack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Ray Harris Jr
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Closing address by the Editors-in-Chief and Conference Convenor (Marno Swart, Renatus Otto Franz Derler (00:00) and Kevin Zou(01:33)). This is a recording from the events of the 14th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference This is a collection of recordings from the events of the 14th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, held under …
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Episode 536-The Red Arm Strikes Back: Blood in the Snow
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24:28Having tasted defeat and now victory, Stalin wants more operations in southern Russia. And what he gets will change the course of the war on the Eastern Front. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Ray Harris Jr
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Episode 535-The First Cracks Appear
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21:02The Axis retreat from the Don River was haphazard. Armies were lost as was much equipment. Army Group South would regroup and form another line, but it was much reduced and the Soviets were only getting stronger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Ray Harris Jr
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CILJ 2025: Panel 7: The international law of tomorrow: legal innovation and developing fields
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1:04:53Moderator: Joshua Kelly, Freshfields. 1. Ms Paulina Rundel, PhD Candidate, University of Vienna: The UN Charter Navigating the Moon: The Moon Agreement versus the Artemis Accords. (02:10) 2. Dr Abbie-Rose Hampton, Research Associate; Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, King’s College London: Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing and the Pandemic Tr…
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CILJ 2025: Panel 6: Armed conflict and challenges to international peace and security in a multipolar world
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57:16Moderator: Commodore Ian Park, UK Royal Navy; Visiting Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School. 1. Ms Liuva Ramos Masó, Early Career Researcher (Ghent Alumni), Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): Hide and seek with private military companies (pmcs) the urgent need for an international regulatory framework. (01:48) 2. Dr Kostia Gorobe…
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CILJ 2025: Panel 5: The growing role of international economic law in a globalised world
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1:13:02Moderator: Bart Wasiak, Senior Associate, Arnold & Porter. 1. Dr Ernst-Ulrich Petersman, Professor Emeritus, European University Insitutite: Constitutional Pluralism as Political Driver for Multipolar Re-ordering of International Legal Systems. (04:35) 2. Dr Konstantina Georgaki, Assistant Professor in International and European Economic Law, Arist…
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CILJ 2025: Panel 4: International human rights law: quo vadis?
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1:14:11Moderator: Dr Tugba Basaran, Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement, University of Cambridge. 1. Dr Lora Izvorova, LSE Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Sciences: Deconstructing Dignity: Two Archetypes in European Human Rights Law. (01:10) 2. Dr Chloë McRae Gilgan, Senior Lecturer, University of Lincoln: Refuge…
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CILJ 2025: Panel 3: Challenges to international criminal law post-2025 - Rethinking, reframing, reforming
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54:11Moderator: Émilie Pottle, Barrister, Temple Garden Chambers. 1. Ms Danielle Flanagan, Associate, Hogan Lovells LLP: Rethinking Universal Jurisdiction: A Shift Towards Greater Universality? (01:54) 2. Dr Ata Hindi, Murphy Institute Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Tulane University School of Law: Here Comes Your Ghost Again: Individual Immunitie…
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CILJ 2025: Panel 2: The role of international law in achieving climate justice
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1:07:44Moderator: Jessica Simor KC, Barrister, Matrix Chambers. 1. Ms Crisela Bernardino, Researcher in Corporate Climate Litigation, British Insitutue of International and Comparative Law (BIICL): In the Interests of Climate Justice: International Law and Decolonial Perspectives on the Philippine Climate Case Against the ‘Carbon Majors’. (02:08) 2. Mr Se…
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CILJ 2025: Panel 1: Reconstructing the international legal order in the 21st century
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1:14:11Moderator: Stephen Fietta KC, Founder, Fietta LLP. 1. Dr Jolyon Ford SFHEA, Professor, Australian National University; and Dr Imogen Saunders, Associate Professor, Australian National University: International Law as Geology: Crawford's core/periphery metaphor and challenges to the contemporary international legal order. (02:18) 2. Ms Jessie Phyffe…
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CILJ 2025: Keynote 4 by Ambassador Rena Lee
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36:13Keynote address 4 – Ambassador Rena Lee: 'The Institutionalisation of International Law in a Multipolar World' Introduction (00:00) Keynote 4 (01:18) This is a recording from the events of the 14th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference This is a collection of recordings from the events of the 14th Annual Cambridge International Law Conferen…
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CILJ 2025: Keynote 2 by Judge Tomas Heidar
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42:38Keynote address 2 – Judge Tomas Heidar, President, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: 'Bringing Climate Change into the Realm of the Law of the Sea Convention: The ITLOS Advisory Opinion' Introduction (00:00) Keynote 2 (02:49) This is a recording from the events of the 14th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference This is a collect…
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CILJ 2025: Opening and First keynote address by Judge Bogdan Aurescu
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53:47Welcoming address by the Editors-in-Chief (Marno Swart and Renatus Otto Franz Derler) (00:00) Welcoming address by the Honorary Editor-in-Chief (Dr Rumiana Yotova, Assistant Professor in International Law) (04:49) Introduction (08:10) Keynote address 1 – Judge Bogdan Aurescu, International Court of Justice: 'Lessons Learned: the Recent Activity of …
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Ep 534-Becky Aikman Interview-Spitfires:The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During WWII
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40:15Writer Becky Aikman tells the story of American female pilots that chose to go to Britain, to fly for the Air Transport Auxiliary. While flying Spitfires and Hurricanes, they live their lives to the fullest. It's a new land and a new chance to reinvent themselves. But not all will make it to the end. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon…
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Episode 533-And the Germans Were Left Standing Alone
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23:05As the Stavka made the South its main area of operations in 1942, saving Stalingrad was only the beginning. Next, the Italians were wiped out, then the Romanians were finished off. Now, it was the Hungarian’s turn and what was coming at them was a tidal wave of steel, shot and shell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Episode 532-Operation Little Saturn Pt 2
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22:19With the 8th Italian Army destroyed, the Soviets will now focus on the German forces SE of Stalingrad and the 2nd Hungarian Army. The US liaison officer will see the results of these battles and report the slaughter to FDR. Meanwhile, Gen. Manstein is forced to order a pull back of all forces. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad…
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Episode 531-Operation Little Saturn Pt 1
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22:15Picking another weak point of the Axis defensive line to the NW of Stalingrad, the Italian 8th, the Hungarian 2nd and what remained of the Romanian 3rd Armies would be attacked. Then the airfield feeding Gen. Paulus’ 6th Army would be raided. The German forces would be tied down and unable to assist. Punch by punch Army Group South is losing its st…
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Episode 530-Operation Mars
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27:21Operation Mars was the sister Soviet counter attack to Uranus, which freed Stalingrad. But Mars would end very differently for the Soviets. When it was all over, the Stavka would turn their attention back to the south. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Ray Harris Jr
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Ep 529-Interview w/Jonathan Horn: The Fate of the Generals
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47:24Author Jonathan Horn’s Book, The Fate of Generals: MacArthur, Wainwright and the Epic battle for the Philippines, covers the experiences of both generals during the war. Yet, one is remembered by history, the other, not so much. This book seeks to rectify this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Episode 528-Operation Northern Lights
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26:53Gen. von Manstein is sent north to capture Leningrad. But days before his attack is launched, the Soviets launch their own. And the results of this battle will be felt all the way to Stalingrad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Ray Harris Jr
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Episode 527-Winning By Other Means
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21:39The German 17th Army on the Taman peninsula is bending, but not breaking. Then the Soviets realize, they don’t have to win, just hold. For events at Kursk will decide the fate of the Caucasus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Ray Harris Jr
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Episode 526-Operation Neptune
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26:06With the building up of troops on the Taman Peninsula, the Germans realize they need an all out attack to drive the enemy back into the Black Sea. Thus Operation Neptune is born. Yet as the Germans look into their cupboard for reserves, they are shocked by what they find. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Episode 525-Alone, Isolated and About to Die
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19:56Now that Stalingrad is liberated, the Stavka decide to clear the Caucasus of Axis troops. Which means annihilating the German 17th Army and the Romanian 3rd Army. But Soviet mistakes will start things off badly for the, now attackers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Ray Harris Jr
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Episode 524-The Line Has Been Drawn at Stalingrad
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22:46With overwhelming forces, the German 6th Army is trapped by the Soviets and then reduced. Paulus does not want to surrender, but the call is not his to make. The 6th Army is no more and Army Group South is very much weakened for it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Ray Harris Jr
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Episode 523-Resistance Is Futile
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21:42The Soviets squeeze the trapped German 6th Army even more. Axis air fields are attacked, making it impossible to feed Paulus’ men. By January of 1943, the Russian winter now has its grip on the Axis soldiers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Ray Harris Jr
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Episode 522-Operation Winter Storm
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30:25As Gen. Manstein readies for Operation Thunderclap, the breakout of the German 6th Army, the Soviets attack again. This time, against the Italian 8th Army. They will be no more successful in resisting, than were the Romanians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Ray Harris Jr
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Episode 521-Decision Time: Fight or Flight
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24:45Operation Uranus is launched. The Axis forces, caught unawares, fall back. Berlin makes plans, but they simply do not have the means to counter the Soviet attack, not that they realize this yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Ray Harris Jr
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Episode 520-Operation Uranus
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22:34While Stalingrad holds out, additional Soviet Armies are being assembled nearby. And in mid November they would be launched, to either side of Gen. Paulus’ 6th Army. If all goes well, those German troops within and near Stalingrad would be surrounded. But the trap must first be set. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Episode 519-Defeat is Always Possible. But Will it Be Today?
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21:40Stalingrad’s defenders are pushed to the breaking point. Worse, they are only sometimes given help by Zhukov. The Germans attack again and the defense all but collapses. Fortunately, the attackers get tired and the Russians hang on. Meanwhile, while Zhukov is making moves behind the lines, certain German officers realize, how weak the Romanian divi…
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Episode 518-Stalin's Latest Mistake
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23:45The attack against northern Stalingrad fairs well, still the defenders on holding on. But Stalin is unsatisfied, he wants counter attacks. It will waste men and ammunition, but no one argues with Stalin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Ray Harris Jr
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Episode 517-The Black Hole That Is Stalingrad
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27:36As Gen. Paulus’ second major attack on Stalingrad gets underway, he’s even more impatient as he had been offered a promotion. But first, he must take the city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Ray Harris Jr
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Episode 516-Holding Stalingrad by the Skin of their Teeth
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23:33Now that German forces are inside Stalingrad, the fighting centers around the Main Ferry Terminal, the Grain Elevator and the heights of Mamayev Kurgan Park. Both sides will take these locations only to lose them again and again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Ray Harris Jr
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Episode 515-Rat Warfare in Stalingrad
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24:22Axis forces enter Stalingrad. But the Germans, unused to urban warfare, adapt as best they can. Whereas the new local commander of the defenders, Vasily Chuikov, will fight like a cornered rat and will quickly devise tactics to counter German advantages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Episode 514-Zhukov Arrives at Stalingrad
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27:34Though Army Group B approaches Stalingrad, all does not go according to plan. Thus Gen. Paulus calls on Field Marshal Wolfram von Richthofen and his Fliegerkorps 8 to bomb Stalingrad for 48 hours. The destruction is terrible, still, the defenders will not yield. And while Marshal Zhukov readies Stalingrad’s defenses, Berlin starts taking men from A…
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Episode 513-Stalingrad or Bust
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27:06Dividing Army Group South, both the Baku Oil Fields and Stalingrad are to be captured. Berlin believes this will weaken Soviet Russia’s war effort. But between Gen. Zhukov’s leadership and Lend Lease material reaching Russia by June 1942, Gen. Paulus’ 6th Army is in for a surprise. Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/wwii45 Twitter @WW2Podcaster Ti…
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Episode 512-Operation Anthropoid
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29:30First, a summary of Stalin’s late winter, early spring 1942 counter attacks, along the entire Eastern Front. They mostly fail and cost hundreds of thousands of Soviet lives, but the Germans are checked once again. Then we turn to the Axis losing one of their own, in Operation Anthropoid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice…
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Episode 511- FDR's Fireside Chats
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52:02As President Roosevelt knew his New Deal policies would be unpopular with the business owners, he sought to explain himself directly to the people. Thus his fireside chats were born. But then came another crisis, the outbreak of WWII. Over the years, FDR would keep his fellow citizens informed of the country’s failures and successes, but ever striv…
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Episode 510-The Fall of Sevastopol
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38:12Using overwhelming artillery, the Germans close in on Sevastopol. Petrov does what he can, but the Stavka stop giving him reinforcements, thinking, the enemy can’t attack for more than 2 weeks at a time. But through daring risks, the Germans get closer, though lose staggering amounts of men, enough, to disrupt Hitler’s larger plans for the area. Le…
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Episode 509-Resist Today, Resist Tomorrow, Resit Until It’s Done
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31:32During WWII many civilians became resisters, rebels and they would strike at their oppressive governments in any way they could. For some, it will be boycotts, for others, they will choose to pick up weapons. Tyranny should never be allowed an easy victory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Episode 508-The Fall of Kerch
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34:48Though outmanned, Gen. Manstein will brilliantly use what he has to out maneuver the Soviet forces on the eastern half of Crimea. It will take time, but soon the defenders are bottled up, their reinforcements cut off by the Luftwaffe. And on May 8, 1941, the final blows start against Gen. Kozlov’s forces. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg…
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Episode 507-Wolf Killers
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33:53Of all Gen. Manstein’s Infantry Divisions, Maj. Gen. Ludwig Wolff’s 22nd Division will get the closest to Sevastopol. But Petrov’s regular flow of reinforcements will devour these wolves seeking to take the vital port city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Ray Harris Jr
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Episode 506-Lord Haw-Haw
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33:57Masters of Propaganda, the German state employs William Joyce to broadcast news, in a taunting tone, to the Allied Nations. His objective, to demoralize the Allied soldiers and the civilians supporting them, to give up the fight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Ray Harris Jr
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Episode 505-Catch Me, If You Can
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23:10With the Battle of Ishun lost, the Soviets retreat, in all directions. Soon, Crimean cities are falling and prisoners are being scooped up in the thousands. At Sevastopol, the first line of defense is lost, but does that mean defeat for the massive port city. One man thinks, no. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Episode 504-Demanding Miracles, Ignoring Reality
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25:43The German 11th Army comes at Ishun, but Gen. Kuznetsov is ready or as ready as he can be. But with three attacking forces, Gen. Erich von Manstein only needs one to get through. What follows is Russian mistakes, followed by folly, followed by German determination. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Episode 503-A Desperate Defense If Ever There Was One
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24:18After a quick and merciless victory just above the Sea of Azov, Gen. Eric Hansen readies his 6 infantry divisions to take the Crimea. But the naval infantrymen of Odessa are shipped over. The battle ground is marshy and limited so the Germans will attack all three land bridges and hope one of them is a winner. Meanwhile, Gen. Kuznetsov deploys his …
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Episode 502-The Wolf is at the Door
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27:21Army Group South reaches the opening of the Crimea. But waiting for the invaders are 3 lines of defense. Yet as there is no other way to gain access, the Germans will come straight at the Tatar Wall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Ray Harris Jr
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Episode 501-The Other Crimean War
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22:32The story of the Crimea had seen tragedies for centuries. Nothing would improve with Operation Barbarossa. Yet, the why of the importance of the Crimea to Hitler was the Stavka’s own doing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Ray Harris Jr
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120 Christmas at War 2024, Chat with Cecili Howard and Ken Cooke
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1:31:52Chat with Cecili who was a young girl in WWII Britain. A Christmas catch up with D-Day veteran Ken Cooke, 98. Plus another helping of festive tales of WW2. Please do subscribe or follow in your listening app as it helps me with the search rankings. Show notes and photos:https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/120-Christmas-At-War-2024-Sicily-inter…
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