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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

51. Lessons of War

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.84.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Al Murray and James Holland discuss the post war historical debate in Germany.

Plus, is it true that Winston Churchill offered Northern Ireland to the Republic in exchange for Irish support in the war?

Other subjects up for debate are Britain’s offer to create a union with France and the German Halt Order in 1940.


A Goalhanger Films production

Produced by Harry Lineker

Executive producer Tony Pastor



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0:00.0

On deck! On deck! Which is of course Afrikaans for Acton, Acton. Actually, a good number of

0:13.4

Afrikaans in South Africa. Well, they support the Nazis. Yes, that's right. And thousands

0:18.9

of them were in turn for the duration of the war, including a future Prime Minister,

0:22.6

BJ Worcester. Nice people. Who later made name for himself as the man in charge when Nelson

0:27.9

Delo was imprisoned. But enough about the baddies. He's one of the goodies. It's James

0:32.3

Holland. You're right James. Thank you, Al. Yes, and we've got a very heaving postbag.

0:38.8

Yeah. Lots of old people. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it seems a bit popular. Communicating by E-Bell.

0:45.0

But yeah, we've got heaving postbag in a non-literal digital sense. Yeah, fantastic. Did you

0:49.0

see there was a daily mash article the other day, which was interesting Second World War

0:54.4

sign of aging in men? No comment. Yeah, because I think there's sort of stages of man,

1:05.7

aren't there, when it comes to Second World War? Because you have the kind of sort of, you know,

1:08.7

the kind of 8 to 12 year old phase. That bit. Yeah. All that kind of really just almost

1:16.7

fainting at the site of a Sherman. Yeah. Then you sort of get over it because you've

1:20.4

come a teenager and it's to discover another aspect of Sherman's when you're in the teenage years.

1:26.6

Yes. So you leave it be for a little bit and then, you know, a bit later on in life, you come back to it.

1:32.1

Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. So we've got a question, James, what is it, from Jonathan Barnett?

1:38.2

Yes, we do. Do we? Yeah, we do. Oh, yes, from Jonathan Barnett. I can read it if you want.

1:43.4

It's not a genre. I'll read it. I'll just select presenter.

1:46.1

Not very slick today. No. How is World War II and the history around it taught in German schools?

1:53.8

What do we know? Well, that's an interesting question, isn't it? Because, because I mean, here,

1:58.7

my, both my daughters have done GCSE history and they've done the rise of the Nazis and it stops

2:04.5

in 1930, you know, like a cliffhanger. So what happened next? What did happen? What was the

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