Cautionary Tales Presents: Warfare, The Life of Anne Frank

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

Pushkin Industries

History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week, it's an episode from Warfare, a podcast from our friends at History Hit. It's 1942. The year Anne Frank and her family went into hiding during the Second World War. It was there that Anne began keeping a diary that would become one of the most recognisable testimonies of the Jewish war-time experiences. But what do we know of her life before the war? Host James Rogers explores the Franks' lives before the outbreak of war, and why this story is still so relevant today.

You can find more from Warfare at https://podfollow.com/the-world-wars.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Joel Stein. I want you to close your eyes and imagine a pocket watch.
0:05.6	It's moving from side to side. You're getting very sleepy.
0:11.6	Great. Now that I've hypnotized you against your will, you're going to start liking long-form journalism.
0:16.2	Like so much. You're going to listen to a podcast where the host interviews a writer about their long-form story every week.
0:23.6	I'm that host.
0:25.0	Listen to Story of the Week on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.4	Here in the last archive, I've been trying to figure out what happened to Truth.
0:34.2	I've been telling stories about how we know what we know, and why it seems sometimes lately is if we don't know anything at all.
0:40.8	But I am done with the problems of Truth. I want solutions.
0:45.2	The season of the last archive is all about common knowledge.
0:49.2	Is that kind of knowledge still possible? I tried to find out. Coming soon.
0:55.2	Listen to the last archive on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:06.8	Pushkin.
1:09.6	Hi there listeners. Tim Hartford here.
1:12.2	Corschtreet hails will be back next week, but in the meantime we're sharing an episode from the Warfare podcast, a show from History Hit.
1:20.4	I'm a regular listener to Warfare. If you haven't listened before, it's hosted by James Rogers.
1:25.2	James is a War historian who works with the UN, NATO and governments around the world.
1:30.4	The show sometimes explores the defining wars of history, such as the First and Second World War.
1:35.8	Other episodes provide context to ongoing conflicts, such as the war in Ukraine or even how it's related to China and Taiwan.
1:44.2	The episode you're about to hear isn't about some epic battle or spectacular military blunder.
1:50.1	It's about Anne Frank, 80 years ago in 1942, Anne and her family went into hiding during the Second World War,
1:58.5	trying to avoid persecution and death in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.
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