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An ‘ordinary’ Nazi

Daniel Lee discusses the life of an ‘ordinary’ member of the SS

Daniel Lee on the HistoryExtra podcast.

Historian Daniel Lee describes how the chance discovery of a cache of documents within a piece of furniture led him to uncover the life of Robert Griesinger, an ‘ordinary’ member of the SS.

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