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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

36. Lost at Nijmegen

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

History, Education, Society & Culture

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Why did General Gavin not take the vital bridge at Nijmegen as soon as his 82nd Airborne Division landed in Holland? A hugely controversial decision to concentrate instead on the Groesbeek Heights is debated here by James Holland and Dutch historian R G Poulussen. A Goalhanger Films production. Produced in Nijmegen, Holland. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello there, Almari here with James Holland. We are standing on the banks of the Rhine just outside.

0:10.1

It was to bake outside on them, no in near the road bridge. And it's just the thing is you come here

0:15.5

and the geography just rubs you nose in it every single time, like a naughty puppy.

0:18.8

James, Nymagun is really important, isn't it?

0:22.0

It is, it's very, very important. Keep the whole thing really.

0:24.6

Because, because by day four now, the morning of day four, the Wednesday,

0:29.2

you've still got, you've still got the remnants of frost skies on the bridge, still just about hanging on.

0:34.7

Yep. So if 30 core could drive across Nymagun bridge with quickly and dynamically and keep going

0:42.1

and get to on them, there's every chance they may, they might see the bridge and pull the

0:46.6

wind the prize, the golden fat juicy plum that is the oven bridge.

0:51.6

Yeah. However, there's a problem with Nymagun, isn't there?

0:54.8

Yeah, because they haven't captured the bridge yet.

0:56.4

I beg your pardon?

0:57.5

They haven't captured the bridge yet.

0:59.1

But that doesn't, that makes no sense at all.

1:01.6

It's all, if this is all about bridges.

1:03.5

I mean, a bridge too far, a bridge we didn't bother with.

1:05.7

It's a different film title, isn't it?

1:06.8

Yeah, well, you know, and actually I'm off to go and see someone who has very strong opinions about all this.

1:11.7

Yes, who we've mentioned before in we have worked.

1:14.8

And how we've managed to get our hands on.

1:16.9

RG Pulsam, he's got very strong views, his Dutch historian.

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