Beyond the podcast: Nuremberg
Showing 1 to 9 of 9 results
Membership"If you represent Pinochet in this case, I will divorce you”: the sensational trial of the Chilean dictator.
Philippe Sands tells Rob Attar about his involvement in the sensational trial of the Chilean dictator, and how it connects to a Nazi on the run
First World WarYour guide to the Treaty of Versailles
What was the Treaty of Versailles? When was it signed? Did it lead to the Second World War? We answer some of the key questions about the peace document that marked the end of World War One...
MembershipOtto von Wächter: On the trail of the Nazi who disappeared.
In his new BBC Radio 4 series and podcast, Philippe Sands is trying to discover how a senior Nazi eluded justice. He talks to Rob Attar about the troubling questions that emerged from his quest
MembershipMy father the Nazi.
Niklas Frank describes his father’s role in the Nazi regime and explains why he wants to ensure his crimes are not forgotten
MembershipForgotten trials: the other side of Nuremberg.
A landmark in the history of international criminal justice, the Nuremberg trials saw 24 major Nazi criminals tried as war criminals, with judges from the Allied powers presiding over the hearings. Eleven prominent Nazis were sentenced to death, while others received short prison sentences or no penalty at all. But, says AT Williams, the Nuremberg Tribunal was only a tiny fragment of a whole system of largely forgotten war crimes trials organised by the Allies across Europe...
Second World WarLaurence Rees on the perpetrators of the Holocaust: “What they told us was, at the time, they felt it was the right thing to do”
Rob Attar speaks to historian Laurence Rees about his book The Holocaust, which features his interviews with Nazis who committed atrocities, as well as Jewish survivors. He asks: how, even after the Holocaust was over, did some of those involved feel they could justify it morally?
Second World WarLife in Nazi Germany: everything you wanted to know
What was life like for women and children in Nazi Germany? How were Jewish people and other minorities persecuted? And how much did ordinary citizens know about the horrors of the Nazi regime? We found out from Richard J Evans, a leading historian of Nazi Germany and regius professor emeritus of history at the University of Cambridge…
MembershipAftermath of the Holocaust: how Europe dealt with the crimes of the Third Reich.
As the Allies fought their way into the Third Reich, they uncovered the full, horrific truth: abandoned camps full of starving inmates, where thousands were buried in shallow graves. 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz and other camps, Richard J Evans recounts how Europe tried to pick up the pieces
MembershipThe Paris Peace Conference: everything you wanted to know.
Professor David Stevenson answers listener questions on the 1919-20 conference that sought to resolve the aftermath of the First World War
