Confronting a Nazi past
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Derek Niemman and Noemie Lopian work together. Two people from very different backgrounds, they tour the world telling people about their family stories.
Author and writer Derek Niemann discovered only a few years ago that the grandfather he never knew had been an SS officer, in charge of slave labourers in the Nazi concentration camps.
Dr Noemie Lopian is the daughter of Holocaust survivors: at the age of 10, her mother had a Gestapo pistol pointed at her head. Her father survived four years of slave labour and concentration camps. Noemie translated herfather's gripping and deeply humane memoir of those years - The Long Night.
The crimes committed by and against their forebears have drawn Noemie and Derek to form a highly unusual and indeed possibly unique partnership. In 2019, Noemie and Derek began sharing their stories as a warning of the perils of extremism and to inspire greater understanding.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello History Hit listeners, as you are listening to this right now at this exact second I am |
| 0:05.8 | currently on an epic cross-country road trip of England. 600 miles and 1 million years of history |
| 0:14.4 | from the first humans through to Stonehenge, Dovercastle, Hastings up to Ironbridge in the |
| 0:19.3 | Black Country and to the northeast where I'm visiting a Cold War bunker in York. |
| 0:25.0 | I want to hear from you. I want to do more stops. Tell me when I should stop. Any local tips or |
| 0:29.8 | hints that you want to share or you want to see me report on on my social media channels and Twitter |
| 0:34.1 | and Instagram etc. just send me a message ds.hh at historyhit.com. That's delta Sierra. |
| 0:41.4 | . hotel hotel at historyhit.com or tweet me at the History Guy. You can keep up with the road trip |
| 0:47.4 | this week on Instagram and Twitter at the History Guy on both and then you can hear the whole thing as a |
| 0:52.1 | podcast series next week. Thanks and enjoy this episode. |
| 1:03.5 | Hello everyone, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit. This is Dan Snow. Still buzzing, still excited. |
| 1:09.1 | So if you heard yesterday's episode of the podcast but I was on the river banks of the Thames in the |
| 1:15.4 | shadow literally in the shadow of London Bridge. One of many bridges to span the Thames and |
| 1:22.2 | that exact spot stretching all the way back to the Romans who first put a bridge across the Thames |
| 1:27.5 | and it was as far down river as they could still bridge and that became the reason for the existence |
| 1:32.6 | of London. And we found a coin. Not just any coin. We found a George II coin from 1752. Now as |
| 1:39.7 | everybody knows, the 1750s was the greatest and best decade and most interesting decade I should |
| 1:45.3 | say in British history. And so it was a great privilege to find its very so in dippitus. I say I |
| 1:52.1 | found that coin. That's of course grotesque. The brilliant Lara Meclam, a famous London mudlaker found |
| 1:57.5 | the coin but I was present. I was there. So some of my juju made that coin surface just when it did. |
| 2:03.8 | Anyway, this podcast has got nothing to do with any of that stuff. You'll be hearing all that |
| 2:08.1 | in detail on the podcast coming soon. And on the history hit channel history hit.tv new digital |
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