155. Ravensbrück Concentration Camp
Who Did What Now
Katie Charlwood
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🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Ravensbrück was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women, located just miles north of Berlin, it was close enough to hand, but far enough to avoid too many questions. A place of brutality, where women were used as forced labour for Siemens and Heinkel, to build rockets and luftwaffe machinery. To provide products for businesses owned by prominent SS, and to make uniforms for the soldiers. But it wasn't all work, women were used for horrific "scientific" experiments, tortured and more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, delicious friends, and welcome to Who Did What Now, the History Podcast, |
| 0:11.8 | that's not your history class, with me, your host, Katie Charlwood, History Harlot, and |
| 0:17.7 | reader of books. So did you know, gentle listeners, that... |
| 0:24.2 | Who did what now? |
| 0:25.9 | It was number two on the US Apple Podcasts history charts this week? |
| 0:31.6 | So thank you. |
| 0:32.8 | That's not me. |
| 0:33.7 | That's you. |
| 0:34.3 | You did this. |
| 0:35.2 | You've been listening and sharing and commenting and doing all the good |
| 0:39.8 | stuff and and thank you thank you thank you it's really really nice to just see that happen because |
| 0:48.1 | it means that I'm doing something right you know and I really really appreciate you for listening |
| 0:53.9 | um I know I'm a little bit more emotional |
| 0:57.0 | today because I'm recording this on my grandfather's anniversary the kindest man I've ever known |
| 1:05.5 | and the pettiest he once blew up a quarry out of spite and you may be thinking to yourself Katie how does one blow up a quarry out of spite and you may be thinking to yourself, Katie, |
| 1:12.3 | how does one blow up a quarry out of spite? And let me tell you with great determination. |
| 1:19.7 | And a really good understanding of physics. Now, I don't have the physics part, but I do have |
| 1:24.8 | the determination and the pettiness, which is why I don't blow |
| 1:27.7 | things up. I just set files. For legal reasons, that's a joke. I've never even been to Louisiana. |
| 1:34.9 | So, not here, not away. Anyway, so, that's such a silly joke. Anyway, there was such a silly joke. It was definitely a joke for |
| 1:45.6 | legal reasons, definitely, absolutely a joke. No. And day of release is actually going to be my son's |
| 1:52.6 | birthday, so yeah, oh goodness, if any of you do want to get him some weird ass Lego, go to town. The address is on the website, it's in the notes. Do what you want to do at this point. Do what you want to do. The boy, God, the boy loves his Lego. He really does. Yeah, I think my house is going to be made a Lego at one point. Like if he keeps carrying on, and honestly, I'm not mad about |
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