82. Germany Post War
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Goalhanger Podcasts
4.8 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Al Murray and James Holland examine life in post-war Germany as the British forces start the process of rebuilding the broken nation. The discovery of Bergen-Belsen and the divided city of Berlin are also discussed with the National Army Museum’s curator Dr Peter Johnston.
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:09.0 | Achtung, Achtung, welcome to We Have Ways and... |
| 0:13.0 | And it just sounds really good to hear it, Joanne. |
| 0:15.0 | It does actually to our nearly a year to allow ourselves the full Achtung. |
| 0:20.0 | We are at the National Army Museum again on the Ro hospital road in London's Fathom. |
| 0:25.0 | Joanne! |
| 0:26.0 | And we are in the archive with Dr Peter Johnston, who is the archivist here at the National Army Museum. |
| 0:33.0 | And this is terribly exciting because... |
| 0:36.0 | He's got some bits out for us. |
| 0:38.0 | We've got actual stuff, documents, historical artefacts, items and... |
| 0:44.0 | Peter, what you got for us here? |
| 0:47.0 | Yeah, just in case the 2,700 things we've got on display on enough, |
| 0:50.0 | I thought I'd actually get some specific things relating to Germany. |
| 0:53.0 | Germany, I listen to the podcast a lot, it's great to be on it. |
| 0:56.0 | And you guys often talk about the war and the progress of the war and how it goes. |
| 1:00.0 | When I thought maybe we'd get a few things out to talk a little bit about the aftermath of that. |
| 1:03.0 | And what happens afterwards? |
| 1:05.0 | Because obviously, as Mark Gummary said on the 8th of May, |
| 1:08.0 | we've won the German War, but now we have to win the peace. |
| 1:11.0 | And the 2nd one, war doesn't really end on the 8th of May 1945, certainly not in Europe anyway. |
| 1:15.0 | When does it end? |
| 1:17.0 | Well, technically, obviously, with the 15th of August and VJ day. |
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