1945: Endgame In Europe

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The 80th Anniversary of the end of WW2 is in our sights. Do Allied leadership, like Winston Churchill, think the end of the war - or the British Empire - was inevitable in 1945? Why did Axis forces keep fighting when surrender seemed the obvious choice in order to stop the suffering? ...And whatever happened to the wonder weapons? James Holland and Al Murray as they set the scene for the armageddon that is the last year of the Second World War. A Goalhanger Production Produced by James Regan + Joey McCarthy Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Social: @WeHaveWaysPod Email: [email protected] Join our ‘Independent Company’ to watch our livestreams, get earlybird tickets and our weekly newsletter - packed with deals. Membership Club: patreon.com/wehaveways Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:47.9	Learn more at Disneyplus.com. Actung, actung, welcome to We Have Ways of Making You Talk, the Second World War podcast with me, Al Murray and James Holland.
1:07.5	Two years ago, we were very much in, we were very, very invested in it being
1:11.3	1993, the 80th anniversary and all the stuff in Sicily, then on into Italy and what was
1:17.4	going on on the eastern front and then out the Pacific and in Burma and India. And we really
1:24.7	made sure that we remember. And then last year, 24, go, we were overwhelmed with 80th anniversary's day oh my goodness me big week
1:34.1	the whole stuff and and now here we are in 1945 basically it's our last anniversary year
1:42.0	for a few years is the simple truth on this podcast
1:45.0	because the Second World War didn't last a decade. So we basically get four years off,
1:52.0	or three years. We get three years off. Yes. And the beauty of that is it means that we can,
1:58.3	we can go back and do all sorts of things that are non-anniversary related,
2:02.4	which will be great, including an entire history of the Second World War in 24 hours.
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