Daughters of Yalta

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🗓️ 26 February 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In February 1945, the ‘Big Three’ met for arguably the most important and controversial of the conferences of the Second World War. At the Yalta Conference, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin discussed the post-war reorganisation of Europe. The British and American leaders had come a long way to cooperate with Stalin, but they had not come alone. Roosevelt’s daughter, Anna, Churchill’s daughter Sarah and Kathleen Harriman, the daughter of the US ambassador to the Soviet Union were all in attendance. For her new book, Catherine Grace Katz has approached the Yalta conference from the perspective of these women, each of whom had a different angle and role there. In this episode Catherine shares her understanding of each of these women and what this can, in turn, tell us about the relationships between the United States, Britain and the USSR.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. Welcome back to the history hit World Wars podcast. I'm your host James Rogers and if it's your first time here we are dedicated to that turbulent period in history between 1914 and 1945. In this episode we're focusing on Yolter. It's gone down in history as the place where the big three met.
0:17.0	Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. They were here to discuss the fate of Europe.
0:22.0	Now it wasn't easy to get there, especially for Roosevelt,
0:25.0	they had to travel over thousands of miles, it was perilous, over sea, over land, over air,
0:30.1	dodging mines, dodging enemy flack, and even the odd U-boat on the way.
0:35.0	It makes it even more astonishing, therefore, that Roosevelt and Churchill,
0:39.6	along with Avril Harriman, the US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, took their daughters with them.
0:44.9	These were Kathleen Harriman, Sarah Churchill, and Anne Roosevelt.
0:48.6	To talk us through why they were there and what they saw, we're joined by the fantastic Catherine Grace Katz. Now Catherine is the author of a new book, The Daughters of Yolter, and she's been through the historic writings, the personal interviews, the hidden archives, and the private diaries of these
1:05.0	daughter diplomats to provide us with a whole new glimpse behind the scenes at
1:09.6	Yelter. It's amazing, she's amazing, You're going to love it. Enjoy. Hi Catherine, thank you so much for coming on the World Wars. How are you doing today?
1:32.1	I'm very well, thank you. How doing today? I'm very well thank you how are you I'm good and we
1:36.2	can tell the listeners that at point of recording we're both waiting patiently for
1:42.2	President Biden to take to the stand and give his inaugural address.
1:45.8	Are you going to have a party?
1:46.8	A mini party with just my family where the extent of the celebration is wearing sweaters
1:52.4	with American flags on them or jumpers rather jumpers
1:55.4	don't where we've got American listeners and Canadian listeners and listeners all around the world you can say sweaters that's fine we won't hold it against you.
2:16.6	Well let's jump into the topic of today and this is Yalta because when we think of Yalta we think of that cold winter of February 1945 and the meeting of the big three Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin but you're a world expert on Yolter so So tell us more. What was the point in these world leaders meeting at this
2:26.1	freezing cold holiday resort on the coast of Crimea? Well as the war is moving into the early days of 1945, it looks like the fighting in Europe
2:37.1	will come to an end sometime in the spring or early summer, and the Battle of the Bulge is about to end right as they set off for Yalta.
2:45.3	The Pacific War is not quite as advanced.
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