Episode 390 - The Auschwitz Sonderkommando Revolt

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Lions Led By Donkeys

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🗓️ 30 November 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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USE CODE DEC25 FOR OUR HOLIDAY SALE. https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys A group of people, forced into one of the worst jobs in human history, decide to launch a suicidal revolt to destroy the tools of the Holocaust. Sources: Lawerence Langer. Versions of Survival: The Holocaust and the Human Spirit Primo Levi. The Drowned and the Saved. Nathan Cohen. Diaries of the Sonderkommando - Confronting Fate and Reality. Tzipora Hager Halivni. Preparation for Revolt in Auschwitz-Birkenau: Heroes and Martyrs. Filip Muller. Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers. Henryk Tauber. Deposition made on May 24, 1945. Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the gas chambers. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/sonderkommando-uprising-auschwitz-birkenau

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