WW2 Stories & Real War Stories
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In February 1945, as Nazi Germany crumbled, the three most powerful men in the world gathered in a palace on the Black Sea to decide the fate of a continent. The decisions Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and…
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You've seen the film. Now hear the true story. In March 1944, Allied airmen imprisoned in a camp the Germans believed was escape-proof tunneled their way to one of the largest mass breakouts of World War II. Seventy-six…
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They fought with extraordinary courage for a country that had betrayed them. Their families were imprisoned in internment camps behind barbed wire. Yet the Japanese American soldiers of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team…
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In the heart of Nazi Germany, at the height of Hitler's power, a small group of university students dared to resist—not with weapons, but with words. They knew discovery meant almost certain death. Most were executed…
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Deep in an Austrian salt mine in 1945, a small group of American soldiers made one of history's greatest discoveries—thousands of stolen masterpieces by Michelangelo, Vermeer, and Rembrandt, hidden by the Nazis and…
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For 57 consecutive nights, German bombers pounded London. Over eight months, roughly 43,000 British civilians were killed and hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed. It was a deliberate campaign to terrorize a…
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In the winter of 1937, over roughly six weeks, the Chinese capital of Nanking became the site of one of the worst atrocities of the twentieth century. In this episode, host Philip Champion tells the story of the Nanjing…
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Before the United States officially entered World War II, a group of American pilots was already at war with Japan—flying shark-faced fighters over the mountains and jungles of China and Burma, defending cities from…
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Step inside the most secret operation of World War II—the Victorian mansion in the English countryside where Alan Turing and thousands of brilliant codebreakers cracked Nazi Germany's "unbreakable" Enigma code and…
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Picture this: September 8, 1941. In the city of Leningrad — formerly Petrograd, formerly Saint Petersburg, Russia's second city and one of the great cultural capitals on earth — a thirteen-year-old girl named Tanya…
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- 03/2023 · over 3 years
- Typical length
- 40 min
- Format
- Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone
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