Art Spies and Underwater Toilets

The Past and The Curious: A History Podcast for Kids and Families

The Past and The Curious History Podcast for Kids

Kids & Family

4.5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Two fascinating stories from World War II. One is about Rose Valland, a French woman who worked as a spy in Nazi-occupied Paris. Her bravery saved thousands of works of art, many of which were returned to the families who originally owned them. Secondly, the story of German U-boat U-1206 is a doozy. The new toilet onboard was confounding, and it got the the better of the boat's commander. The result was a big blunder by the German Army.

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.7	Well, well, well, what do we have here?
0:09.9	We have another episode of The Past and the Curious for you.
0:12.6	My name is Mick Sullivan and welcome to the show.
0:15.2	I'm releasing this episode the weekend after around Thanksgiving.
0:19.2	And you know what?
0:20.4	I'm really grateful and thankful for the
0:22.7	fact that I get to make this show, that I have the time and the ability. And I'm really
0:27.0	grateful that you're listening. So thank you so much. I hope you enjoy this episode. We get a lot of
0:32.0	requests for stories about World War II. I don't do a lot of war-related things.
0:38.3	And that's not exactly what this is, but these are two stories from World War II that focus on...
0:43.3	Well, the first one is about a woman who saved a bunch of art from being destroyed or stolen by the Nazi army.
0:51.3	It's a great story.
0:52.3	And the second story is about a malfunctioning toilet that brought down or brought up, I guess.
1:01.8	A submarine, you know, it's a classic. It's a classic story from World War II. If you haven't heard it before, you don't know anything about it, buckle up. I think you're going to enjoy. Let's get started.
1:20.1	Roseballand had planned to be an art teacher, but she became a spy instead.
1:28.3	Plans can change, and in her case they most certainly did.
1:32.3	The spy thing just kind of happened.
1:35.3	But it's the sort of thing that can just kind of happen when Nazis take over your town.
1:41.3	Rose wasn't going to let them get away with terrible things, especially not in
1:46.9	the city she called home, Paris, France. Rose was born to a humble family in 1898 near the
1:57.5	Alpine Mountains in southern France. Her father was a blacksmith, and it was always planned that Rose would go to school.
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